David Alves

Email: dalves@davidalves.net
Web site: davidalves.net
Phone: (650) 380-5169
Address: 1896 Market Street,
Santa Clara CA

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Objective

A position in software development for the summer of 2009.

Java: Originally self-taught to enter IBM's Robocode competition, I later honed my skills in several small startups, and regularly use Java to compete on TopCoder.
C / C++: I wrote a multithreaded Linux application to schedule many interdependent types of calibration for wireless networking hardware while working at BRN Phoenix. In programming competitions where execution time is critical, I use C++.
Ruby: I learned Ruby while creating Roborumble.org, a Ruby on Rails site I made to provide stable rankings of Robocode robots for the Robocode community.

Summer 2008

Juniper Networks

Sunnyvale, CA

Developed software to check Juniper's engineering database and feature request databases, building lists of overdue items which are then emailed to the employees.
Created software to automatically generate quarterly PDF reports on customer feature requests, with dynamic charts and tables.
Wrote C code to communicate between chips on wireless subscriber unit and schedule interdependent calibration tasks.

2007-2008

BRN Phoenix, Inc.

Santa Clara, CA

Wrote testing platform in Java to simulate DSP chip functionality on a PC.
Created Ant scripts to automate nightly building and testing, with build and test summaries sent to all developers each morning.
Wrote C code to communicate between chips on wireless subscriber unit and schedule interdependent calibration tasks.

2007 - Present

TopCoder

TopCoder hosts regular online programming competitions.

Ranked in the 94th percentile in the weeklong Marathon Match category.
Semi-finalist in the 2008 TopCoder Open in the Marathon Match category, competing against over 600 other coders of all ages.

2003 - Present

Robocode

Robocode is a competitive programming game, originally made by IBM, where coders write Java AIs to control tanks which battle each other.

Authored Phoenix, a robot that has ranked in the top 3 out of 600 competitors for over a year.

2006 - Present

San Jose State University

San Jose, CA

Currently pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.
President of the SJSU Computer Science Club.
Designed and led a fun seminar to teach high school students about programming and interest them in engineering careers as part of MESA Day 2008.
Member of San Jose State's 2007 ACM International Collegiate Programming Challenge team, finished 13^th out of 76 teams in the Pacific Northwest region.