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Dorian Clay

Software Engineer
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dorian@dorianclay.com
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Work Experience

Microsoft

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Software Engineer II
Jan 2023 - Current
  • Scaled SDK library from prototype to production in apps with 8 million daily active users.
  • Led redesign of package architecture to reduce coupling and stabilize versioning prior to public release.
  • Created and maintained production Azure resources such as CDN, Traffic Manager, certificates, and yaml pipelines.
  • Led collaboration with internal and external partners to drive alignment and deliver project milestones on time.

Microsoft

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Software Engineering Intern
Jun 2022 - Sep 2022
  • Designed an extensible internal framework for configurable web pages.
  • Defined project goals and requirements to align with strategic direction of the company.
  • Implemented framework extending web components to enable dynamic selection for inclusion in a rendered web page.

Santa Clara University

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Student Researcher
Jan 2020 - Jun 2022
  • Co-authored book chapter about ethical considerations in augmented reality.
  • Contributed to research group investigating how to detect fake news in social networks.

WiBotic, Inc.

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Robotics Engineer, Intern
Oct 2017 - Sep 2018

Created a ROS charging node for the battery management pub/sub topic, to subscribe to charging messages and publish when to autonomously return to wireless charging dock.

Projects

Expanding Neuro-Symbolic AI for Strategic Learning

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SIGKDD '22 Undergraduate Consortium
Sep 2021 - Jun 2022

Designed & implemented AI strategy game.

  • Wrote game library in C++, bound to a Python API.
  • Wrapped game in an OpenAI Gym environment to test AI algorithms.
  • Implemented and compared a baseline reinforcement learning model.
Jan 2021 - Aug 2021

Built a blackjack web game using Angular and Python.

  • Deployed cloud application using Google Cloud Platform.
  • Designed a modular and extensible card game library following SOLID design principles.
  • Used Flask/GUnicorn to create a WSGI app, with endpoints defined by RESTful API.
  • Built an Angular SPA website using Angular routing. Used Nginx to serve static files.

Education

Santa Clara University

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B.S. Computer Science and Engineering
Sep 2018 - Dec 2022

Santa Clara University

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B.S. Technology Leadership and Policy
Sep 2018 - Dec 2022

Awards

Markkula Center Engineering Ethics Prize
Santa Clara University Dean's List

Skills

Software Environments
Windows .NET (C#, C++) Web (JavaScript, Node.JS) Notebooks (Python)
ML
Pytorch Reinforcement learning OpenAI Gym
Human
Proactive Evidence-based management Perspective seeking