Pablo Melana-dayton
Senior Software Engineer at Google
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolPablo Melana-dayton is a Senior Software Engineer in New York with a decade of experience building reliable back-end systems, currently at Google after progressing from Software Engineer roles since 2019. He holds both a BS and MS in Computer Science from the University of Chicago and began his practical engineering career in academic research and finance internships. Pablo contributes to open-source interoperability work—most notably improving OneDrive importers and upload-session robustness in the Data Transfer Project—demonstrating attention to edge cases like forbidden-character handling and album/title cleansing. He blends production-grade engineering with a research-informed mindset, comfortable refactoring complex integrations and shipping resilient data portability features. Colleagues describe him as methodical and pragmatic, skilled at turning nuanced protocol and naming issues into maintainable, scalable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Horace Mann SchoolMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Chicago
English, Spanish, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
data-portability10
object-oriented-programming10
java10
javas10
file-upload10
data-transfer10
apim9
api9
testing8
buildpack6
oauth6
heroku6
tweepy6
opencv6
google-app-engine6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dtinit/data-transfer-project
Jan 2020 - Dec 2021
The Data Transfer Project makes it easy for platforms to build interoperable user data portability features. We are establishing a common framework, including data models and protocols, to enable direct transfer of data both into and out of participating online service providers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 1 review, 112 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Pablo's commits primarily focused on improving the Microsoft OneDrive importer within the Data Transfer Project, indicated by the "data-portability" and "transfer" topics. Their work involved addressing issues with forbidden characters in file and album names for OneDrive uploads and creating an efficient upload session. The changes included modifying and refactoring code related to upload sessions and various file-naming conventions to ensure the project's functionality and proper integration with the Microsoft service. Additionally, they introduced and refined album and title name cleansing logic.
datadata-portabilityonline-serviceparticipatingportability
pablomd314/rsspotify
Jun 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:25 commits, 1 push, 1 issue in 5 months
pythonspotifyrss-feed
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