Dave Markowitz
Software Engineer at Darkflame Universe
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Markowitz is a software engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building high-performance server systems and developer tooling, currently contributing to the Darkflame Universe server emulator and pursuing a BS in Computer Science. He’s delivered measurable production improvements—raising uptime to 99.9%, cutting memory use by 25%, halving build times, and reducing network traffic with delta compression—while authoring an ORM to enable pluggable data backends. Past internships at Bungie and Looker show a knack for automation and diagnostics, from slashing production performance investigation time to modeling Kubernetes/LookML configs tied to a published patent application. A disciplined coder since 2014, he publishes his full set of LeetCode solutions on GitHub and balances deep systems work with a customer-focused mindset honed in support and frontline roles.
7 years of coding experience
University of California Santa CruzBachelor's of Science in Computer Science, Computer Science, 2nd Year, Bachelor's of Science in Computer Science, Computer Science, 2nd Year at Cabrillo CollegeCypress Charter High School
Github Skills (76)
structures10
windows10
mmo10
dotnet10
data-storage10
cpu10
unobtrusive10
universe10
networking10
performance-analysis10
dotnet-core10
reverse-engineering10
server10
test-coverage9
ghidra9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
EmosewaMC/Docs
Jan 2022 - Dec 2023
Sphinx/RTD/reST documentation for files & systems in the defunct game LEGO Universe
Contributions:2 PRs, 114 pushes, 64 branches in 1 year 11 months
universepythonfltkinfinibandtileset
EmosewaMC/phaser-colyseus-discord
May 2024 - Jun 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 271 pushes in 1 month
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