Dara Buggay
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDara Buggay is a full-stack software engineer with six years of experience building cloud-aware, user-facing, and mobile applications, most recently as a Software Engineer at Google. Skilled in Java, TypeScript, iOS frameworks, and cloud benchmarking, Dara has contributed to PerfKit Benchmarker to improve cross-provider performance testing and provider-specific resource handling for Azure, AWS, and GCP. Past roles include building customer-facing web apps with Kafka-backed migrations and developing a CareKit-based iOS app for clinical research at Duke, showing an ability to translate domain-specific needs into practical software. Comfortable teaching and mentoring younger developers, Dara also brings hands-on experience with embedded and desktop tooling from tutoring and code-coaching roles. Based in Seattle and trained at Duke and the University of Sydney, Dara combines strong systems thinking with a knack for making complex infrastructure measurable and user-friendly.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Engineering - BSE, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science in Engineering - BSE, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science at Duke UniversityThe University of Sydney
Github Skills (9)
azure10
cloud-infrastructure10
virtual-machine10
aws10
microsoft-azure10
python10
gcp10
performance-testing9
resource-management9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker
Nov 2019 - Jun 2022
PerfKit Benchmarker (PKB) contains a set of benchmarks to measure and compare cloud offerings. The benchmarks use default settings to reflect what most users will see. PerfKit Benchmarker is licensed under the Apache 2 license terms. Please make sure to read, understand and agree to the terms of the LICENSE and CONTRIBUTING files before proceeding.
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:15 commits, 6 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Dara primarily contributes to the PerfKit Benchmarker project by implementing support for various cloud providers, including Azure, AWS, and GCP. Their work focuses on features such as dedicated host management, VM configuration, and performance testing. This includes expanding the benchmark's capabilities to accurately measure performance on different cloud platforms, particularly around specialized hardware configurations and host capacity. They also addressed errors related to resource allocation and provisioning timeouts on Azure.
license-2licensedbenchmarkingapache-license-2pkb
marcomicera/PerfKitBenchmarker
Dec 2019 - Dec 2019
Perfkit Benchmarker contains set of benchmarks to measure and compare cloud offerings. The benchmarks use defaults to reflect what most users will see. PerfKit Benchmarker is licensed under the Apache 2 license terms. Please make sure to read, understand and agree to the terms of the LICENSE and CONTRIBUTING files before proceeding.
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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