Yaima Valdivia
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarYaima Valdivia is a Principal Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 10 years of experience building secure, human-centered AI and cybersecurity systems. She splits her time between developing security services at DigiCert and teaching Game AI as an Instructional Associate at Georgia Tech, bringing research-informed approaches to production software. Her hands-on work spans Go, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and GraphQL, and she has led IoT interoperability efforts (OCF/Eclipse IoT), including PKI-like solutions and Android integrations for device ecosystems. A Georgia Tech MS graduate with a nanodegree in self-driving cars and a background as a founder and public speaker, she pairs product-minded engineering with bilingual documentation and community outreach to bridge research, developer ecosystems, and secure product delivery.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (42)
iot-application10
code-generator10
oauth210
smartapp10
tuya10
handlers10
open-source10
upnp10
internet-of-things10
swagger-210
tasmota10
hue10
iot10
holochain10
smartthings10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Yaima/SmartThingsPublic
Nov 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:59 pushes, 2 branches, 7 tags in 5 months
Yaima/honey-prompt-detector
Jan 2025 - Mar 2025
Proactive prompt injection detection for LLMs using honey‑prompt tokens, multi‑agent evaluation, and dynamic adaptation.
Contributions:11 PRs, 7 pushes, 11 branches in 2 months
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