John Davis
Self Employed
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Davis is an experienced software engineer with 13+ years building embedded systems, cloud data pipelines, and now focused full-time as an Apple SpriteKit game developer for his turn-based strategy title "Blue-Red Combat." His background spans principal and senior roles at Broadcom, IBM, and startups where he shipped system-level C/C++ and Linux firmware, architected Yocto builds, and led tooling for large-scale developer workflows. He also brings strong cloud and ML experience—contributing to GoogleCloudPlatform training labs and building GCP-based DSP and TensorFlow pipelines for audio analysis. Comfortable across embedded, backend, and DevOps stacks, he’s repeatedly turned prototypes into production using Python, bash, systemd, and CI/CD tools. A pragmatic problem-solver, he has hands-on hardware experience (PCBs, LoRa gateways, STM32) and a knack for documentation and community teaching, having run GCP user groups and published tooling on GitHub. Now based in Durham, NC, he combines deep systems expertise with creative game development.
13 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering at North Carolina State UniversityJohns Hopkins UniversityfreeCodeCampHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at wilkes central high school
English, Chinese, German
Stackoverflow
4,319reputation
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113answers
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Github Skills (19)
python10
machine-learning10
feature-engineering10
tensorflow10
jupyter-notebook10
apache-beam10
bigquery9
debugging9
gcp9
integer9
data-preprocessing9
shell6
swift6
gdb6
google-cloud-storage6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleCloudPlatform/training-data-analyst
Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
Labs and demos for courses for GCP Training (http://cloud.google.com/training).
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:24 commits, 13 PRs, 31 comments in 10 days
Contributions summary:John made changes to the `feateng.ipynb` notebook, which appears to be focused on feature engineering for a machine learning project. The commits involve importing TensorFlow and Apache Beam, and include steps for preprocessing, query definition, and model development. The user also implemented environment variable configurations.
gcpgoogle-cloud-platformgoogle-cloudtraining
rtp-gcp/BALSA
Nov 2023 - Apr 2024
# BALSA Basic Assembly Language Source Assist
Contributions:45 reviews, 51 PRs, 148 pushes in 5 months
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