Dama Reffett
Software Engineering Manager at IBM
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolDama Reffett is a software engineering manager in Austin with eight years of professional experience and more than a decade of hands-on engineering across defense, enterprise, and financial sectors. At IBM she leads teams building production-ready AI systems—LLM-powered apps, agent architectures, RAG, orchestration and explainability—while balancing technical quality with people growth and business outcomes. Her background spans full life-cycle systems from Java and .NET services, messaging and data warehousing to conversational AI integrations with Salesforce and watsonx Assistant. She combines practical architecture skills with product-facing delivery experience, regularly translating ambiguous problems into scalable, auditable solutions. Dama is especially committed to responsible, transparent AI and to coaching technical leaders to move fast without cutting corners. An engineer-turned-manager who still ships code, she pairs deep implementation experience with cross-functional stakeholder fluency.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Regis Universityhttps://www.salesforce.com/trailblazer/y7j94wcql7bblavcpn, https://www.salesforce.com/trailblazer/y7j94wcql7bblavcpn at Trailhead by SalesforceCoursera
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (32)
loopback9
sbt8
cloud-foundry8
google-cloud-dataproc7
foundry7
spark7
kubernetes-operator7
cf-cli6
cli6
operator6
kubernetes6
apache-spark6
javascript6
eslint-config-airbnb6
eslint6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
damache/github-slideshow
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
A robot powered training repository :robot:
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
roboticsrosrobottraining
Changing-Expectations/chatbot
Oct 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:13 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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