Dana Adylova
senior software engineer
danaadylova@gmail.com · Fremont, CA · linkedin.com/in/dana-adylova
experience
Career break2025 – present
full-time parent
- Taking planned time away from industry to care for my child. Staying current through personal projects, including a full-stack pattern-discovery web app (FastAPI, deployed on Railway).
Amazon2024 – 2025
senior software engineer
- Designed and built solutions for data-intensive applications across the AWS ecosystem.
- Implemented scalable ETL pipelines with AWS Glue, integrating diverse data sources into data lakes and warehouses.
LinkedIn2022 – 2024
senior software engineer
- Created customized solutions for brand imaging and social insights on the LinkedIn network using Java, Espresso, Spark, Apache Pinot, and Hadoop.
- Managed and maintained partner advertisements on the LinkedIn Learning Ads Management System platform with the Rest.li framework.
- Optimized ad performance and provided recommendations to business partners.
VMware2019 – 2022
software engineer
- Implemented architecture for large-scale, flexible creation and distribution of virtual desktops on the Virtual Workspace team.
- Built data tracking and processing for all information related to desktop pool maintenance.
- Designed and developed a system to apply desired applications and state to chosen virtual machines on the Horizon Enterprise platform.
Microsoft2018 – 2019
software engineer
- Accelerated neural network execution on distributed FPGA hardware using C++, ASP.NET, and Azure.
- Adapted software for compatibility with specialized firmware at large scale without compromising accuracy or efficiency of trained models.
- Developed the CI/CD pipeline and testing infrastructure; maintained health of FPGA hardware servers and data centers.
earlier experience
Intuit — software engineering intern2018
- Front-end and back-end development for the TurboTax messaging application and portal for tax professionals.
Microsoft — software engineering intern2017
- Designed and built a web service to expedite processing of pre-trained TensorFlow and CNTK models on hardware.
Microsoft — software engineering intern2016
- Architected a system to ensure deterministic loading of ranking models for the Bing Experimental system.
skills
Java
Python
C++
C#
Scala
Spark
Hadoop
Apache Pinot
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
UNIX
education
B.S. Computer Science
Minor in Mathematics
Rochester Institute of Technology · 2015 – 2018
languages
English · Russian · Kazakh
interests
Knitting and sewing · Sci-fi and fantasy · See what I'm building
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