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