Work Experience

Software Engineer — Deloitte Consulting, VA

Developed robust backend and responsive frontend features for client-facing web applications.
Built and deployed scalable cloud infrastructure to host applications and enable secure inter-service communications.
Communicated closely with clients to analyze their expectations and engineer a solution.
Notable Projects:

Upgraded and refactored legacy Spring Boot Java applications to align with evolving platform updates, improving reliability and maintainability
Ensured seamless customer transactions by managing on-call incidents, leading deployments, and expanding data capabilities through new Databricks tables and Azure/Terraform backend integrations

Designed and deployed several Open Service Brokers for major payment processor using Spring Boot Java for large credit card company
Migrated and refactored existing APIs to fit Open Service Broker specifications
Wrote extensive unit tests to achieve >95% code coverage in previously low coverage code

Enhanced and developed an AI/ML-driven application for a large retailer, building Spring Boot services to improve internal efficiency
Building services in Spring Boot/Java to iterate upon internally used software to maximize efficiency

Created backend APIs for the frontend application to interface with the relational database
Wrote Terraform scripts to automate the creation and deployment of all AWS resources into the AWS Cloud

July 2022-Present

Certifications

Certified Cloud Practioner

Knowledge of core AWS services and use cases, billing and pricing models, security concepts, and how cloud impacts businesses

October 2022-July 2028

Skilled in developing and deploying machine learning and deep learning models on AWS, applying sound intuition for algorithms, hyperparameter optimization, and model-training best practices

December 2022-November 2028

GCP Digital Leader

Knowledge of cloud computing basics and how Google Cloud can be used to achieve an organization's goals and how cloud solutions support an enterprise

June 2024-June 2027

Education

Purdue University, College of Science — West Lafayette, IN

August 2019-May 2022

GPA: 3.31/4.0

Honors/Awards

Damien Rei Xiao