Sebastian Davis
Data Engineer
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSebastian Davis is a San Diego–based Data Engineer with 16 years of multidisciplinary experience spanning full-stack software engineering, business intelligence, and laboratory roles in pharma and environmental research. He combines practical data engineering skills with hands-on embedded/IoT development—authoring an ESPHome component to control Mitsubishi heat pumps via direct serial integration—showing comfort across firmware to cloud. A former brewer and business analyst, he has a proven ability to translate messy, real-world requirements into scalable technical solutions and to lead projects from prototype to production. Trained in environmental chemistry (UCSD) and software engineering (Hack Reactor), Sebastian brings a pragmatic, systems-oriented perspective that surfaces useful, cross-domain insights others often miss.
16 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Miramonte High SchoolUniversity of California San DiegoCertificate, Software Engineering with Python and Javascript, Certificate, Software Engineering with Python and Javascript at Hack Reactor
Github Skills (7)
esp3210
c-language10
serial-communication10
cprogramming-language10
esphome10
esp826610
home-automation9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
geoffdavis/esphome-mitsubishiheatpump
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
ESPHome Climate Component for Mitsubishi Heatpumps using direct serial connection
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:1 release, 17 reviews, 115 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Sebastian primarily focused on developing and implementing the `esphome-mitsubishiheatpump` component for ESPHome. They designed and implemented the core functionality to interface with Mitsubishi Heatpumps using a direct serial connection. The contributions involved defining the component's traits, handling control actions, managing settings, and reporting the heat pump's status back to ESPHome. The user also addressed code structure, include paths, and component setup, along with incorporating external library dependencies.
hvacmitsubish-comfortclimateserialesp8266
UCSD-ANF/puppet-snmp
Apr 2012 - May 2017
Contributions:80 commits, 5 pushes, 4 tags in 5 years 1 month
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