Cody Deeran
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Cody Deeran

Software Engineer in Arizona

Open to work!

2 years ago

Work Experience

2022 — Now

Lead software developer on RnD project utilizing GPT-J-6B from Hugging Face to translate legacy programming languages into modern programming languages (i.e. PowerBuilder to Java)

Lead software developer on RnD project to build a "Co-Pilot" replica for classified Government spaces. Project included Fine-Tuning a LLM, deploying to a common endpoint and building a VS Code Extension with TypeScript and Svelte to execute inference

Collaborated with Machine Learning engineers to curate datasets from open source and proprietary data for Fine-Tuning

Familiar with Hugging Face, Transformer Models, Diffusion Models, PyTorch, BentoML, Yatai, Docker and Kubernetes

2021 — 2022

Team Lead/Scrum Master of multiple cross-discipline development/integration teams include Software, Firmware, Systems and Systems Security Engineering

Lead program RnD project to implement Machine Learning into automation pipeline for Data Analysis. Curated Training/Validation sets for supervised learning using proprietary data

Designed and architected embedded software APIs using IEEE standard I2C and Ethernet protocols

Created and maintained peer reviewed software requirements and Interface Design Documents for safety critical systems

Experience in Anti-Tamper Technologies and Methodologies, Cryptography Suites, Radar and Signal Processing

Ambassador for the Software Engineering Center

2019 — 2021

Collaborated in the architecture, system design, development, testing/integration of Embedded Software Applications written in C/C++ for Real-Time Safety and Mission Critical systems

Program Subject Matter Expert for Aegis, JUWL and 2T Uplink/Downlink Communications

Program Subject Matter Expert for Embedded Reprogramming solution

Lead DevOps team to establish program release processes using CI tools such as Azure DevOps Server, Jenkins, Rational Team Concert

Designed and Developed Python applications for hardware integration and CI/CD processes

2018 — 2019

Contributed to software development cycle of mission critical systems. Focusing on Uplink/Downlink communications of Aegis, JUWL and 2T

Designed and implemented automated testing framework written in Python to reduce 95% of manual Formal Qualification Tests

2015 — 2017
Software Test/Automation Developer Intern at IBM

Develop, test and debug cross-platform automation testing tools written in Python and Java for IBM Spectrum Protect Software

Used Eclipse IDE to develop, compile and deploy tools to Jenkins Pipeline

Verified performance/operation of IBM Spectrum Protect software for Windows, HP-UX, Sun Solaris and other Linux distos

Awards

2020
STAR SHOT from Raytheon Technologies

A prestigious recognition, awarded by the Vice President of Raytheon Global Business for Stellar Leadership and Engineering of the Reprogramming Software Verification solution.

Side Projects

Ongoing

Chatbot for my Twitch stream. Interacts and entertains users utilizing the ChatGPT Api from Open Ai.

Ongoing

Combined my love for video gaming and software development.

Created therealcodemabot to interact and host viewers on my channel.

Utilized Open source stable diffusion models from civitai.com to create images for my overlays.

Created custom shapes and gradients using the following design tools:

Figma
DaVinci Resolve

2021

Automated drink dispenser and DJ Booth written in Python powered by Raspberry Pi.

GUI designed using QT Creator.

Goal of Project:
Gain more experience interfacing software with hardware utilizing GPIO functionality. Gain experience designing an application using a design tool. Use an external library to control multiple devices to create a fun and very interactive environment.

Last but not last, have a blast at Holiday Parties!

2021

Fantasy Football analytic website using Python-Flask, Next.js

Built using the Sleeper.app API

2019
Weight Coach

Alexa skill written in Python to help motivate a user to achieve their weight loss goal.

Goal of Project:
Gain experience in Natural Language Processing, Databases, REST APIs and hosting using AWS.

2017

Mobile app catered to help 1000+ participants at the annual Hack Arizona event at the University of Arizona. App included push notifications, maps of the events and various event schedules.

This app was made publicly available to help push the importance of Hackathons and the Open Source community.

Built with:
Swift
Firebase
Alamofire
Alamofire_Syncronous
SwiftyJSON

Education

2014 — 2017
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at University of Arizona

Certifications

2022

Completed the Regression and Classification course from DeepLearning.AI and Stanford online via Coursera

Volunteering

2017 — 2018
Arizona

Led a team of 3 developers and 1 graphic designer to design a mobile app on both Android and iOS. This app would cater to help running the Hackathon with 1000+ participants.

2015 — 2017
Activities Director at Hack Arizona

Collaborated with various students and companies to plan and schedule activities during the student led hackathon at the University of Arizona. Activities included Sponsored Tech Talks and showcase, gaming competitions, food eating competitions and a hypnotist

Contact

GitHub
Website
Twitter
Youtube
LinkedIn