About Me
Dung (Daniel) Dong
I'm a passionate Software Engineer with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and currently pursuing a Master's degree in Software Engineering at San Jose State University.
I'm driven by a desire to create innovative and efficient software solutions. I'm constantly learning and adapting to new technologies to stay at the forefront of the industry. My skills and experience allow me to contribute effectively to various software development projects.
I'm eager to apply my knowledge and skills to exciting new projects and contribute to the success of a dynamic team.
Technical Expertise
Programming Languages
Frameworks
Databases
Cloud Platforms
DevOps
Experience
My journey in software engineering and development.
Amazon Web Services
SDE Intern- Added trust-mode to the AWS language server (backend for Amazon Q IDE plugins) to improve developer flow by auto-approving shell commands with security guardrails, resulting in 70% of internal users enabling the feature within 3 weeks.
- Implemented keyboard shortcuts for agent execution controls in the Amazon Q IDE plugin to keep developers hands-on-keyboard and cut pointer use, resulting in 60% of agent actions triggered via shortcuts.
- Enhanced automation scripts for local build generation, reducing manual setup effort by ~40% and accelerating testing cycles.
- Inherited mynah-ui's event-driven, native DOM architecture to ship a reusable dropdown form component supporting rich menu layouts and responsive styling (beyond the native <select>); with Playwright E2E coverage.
Rockliffe Systems
Software Engineer Intern- Modernized stack with Astro (SSG) + Vue islands, Tailwind, TypeScript, reducing shipped JS and simplifying maintenance.
- Improved median LCP by ~40% (Lighthouse) through Astro SSG, asset pruning, and CDN caching.
- Replaced hardcoded pages with REST APIs backed by an SQL database and introduced basic caching to stabilize response times.
- Migrated core business logic from C# to TypeScript to unify the stack and simplify maintenance, validating with parity tests
SJSU Software and Computer Engineering Society
Software Engineer Intern- Built a music-streaming Discord bot (Node.js, Discord.js, ytdl-core / play-dl) with play/pause/skip/search and per-server in-memory queues to minimize latency and eliminate unnecessary infrastructure overhead
- Instrumented runtime metrics with Prometheus and created Grafana dashboards to monitor performance and basic health.
- Containerized & deployed via Docker and Docker Compose over SSH, enabling straightforward updates and rollback.
Achievements
Recognition and awards from hackathons and coding competitions.
WinnerOne Trillion Agents Hackathon
2nd Place - Aurora AI Agentic Chains
NEAR Protocol's Global AI & Web3 Hackathon
Developed HedgeFi, an AI-powered Web3 platform on NEAR & Aurora for meme coin trading and creation. The platform leverages AI agents to streamline market interactions, token launches, and betting.
Competed against professional software engineers and developers from around the world in this high-profile Web3 hackathon with over 2,000 participants.
Education
My academic background and qualifications.
Master of Science in Software Engineering
San Jose State University
Relevant Coursework
- Enterprise Distributed Systems
- Enterprise Application Development
- Enterprise Software Platforms
- Software Systems Engineering
- Data Mining
- Virtualization Technologies
- Software Security Technologies
Master's Project
AI Documentation Agent
In ProgressAn AI-powered agent specialized in automatically generating comprehensive documentation for any codebase, leveraging advanced code analysis and natural language processing techniques.
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
San Jose State University
Relevant Coursework
- Software Engineering
- Data Structures and Algorithms
- Introduction to the Design and Analysis of Algorithms
- Database Management Systems
- NoSQL Database Systems
- Computer Networks
- Operating Systems
Achievements
- Magna Cum Laude
- SJSU President's Scholar
- Dean's List
Projects
Here are some of my recent projects. Check out more on myGitHub.
Health Guardian
An advanced IoT healthcare solution delivering real-time monitoring of vital signs like heart rate and blood pressure. Leveraging a robust data pipeline powered by MQTT, Kafka, and Spark, it streams and analyzes continuous health data to identify potential heart failure risks.
Utilized Docker Compose to orchestrate the message queue infrastructure for local development, containerizing MQTT brokers, Kafka clusters, and Spark processing nodes.
AIO Discord Bot
An AI-powered Discord bot leveraging OpenAI's GPT for natural conversations and Q&A. Features include OCR for image-to-text conversion, contextual memory for continuous conversations, moderation tools, and utility commands.
Deployed via Docker containers on Google Cloud Platform with automated CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions for seamless updates.
Restaurant Finder
A full-stack restaurant discovery platform inspired by Yelp, built with Next.js and Go. Features include user authentication via next-auth, interactive map integration, advanced restaurant search with filters, user reviews and ratings, and restaurant owner dashboard.
Backend implemented as 4 microservices in Go, each running on different ports within AWS EC2 instances. The microservices architecture enabled better separation of concerns and scalability.
Deployment utilized auto scaling groups behind a load balancer, with S3 storing the compiled Go binaries that were distributed to EC2 instances via a custom Linux service.
SQL4U
A MERN stack application helping users learn SQL through interactive exercises and real-time feedback. Features user authentication, progress tracking, and a comprehensive SQL tutorial system.
Backend deployed on AWS Beanstalk, frontend deployed on AWS Amplify.
CI/CD pipeline implemented using AWS Pipeline for seamless updates.
Technical Skills
My technical expertise spans across multiple programming languages, frameworks, and tools.
Programming Languages
Python
TypeScript
JavaScript
Java
HTML
CSS
Tech Stacks
React.js
Vue.js
Next.js
Express.js
Node.js
Astro.js
Django
Tailwind
Bootstrap5
Data Processing & Messaging
Apache Spark
Kafka
MQTT
DevOps
GitHub
Docker
Cloud
AWS
Google Cloud Platform
Databases
MySQL
