Daniel Comstock
dan.j.comstock@gmail.com

WORK EXPERIENCE 

Optum - Jan 2021 to Current

Software Engineer

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Project

• Creating a tool for other developers to use as a baseline for creating RAG solutions written in Golang and Python, containerized and deployed to Kubernetes.

StackStorm Team

• Utilized open source application StackStorm to create automation solutions for internal teams.

• Modified StackStorm to comply with enterprise security standards and internal application requirements with future goal to deliver improvements back to the open source community.

• Created solution for triggering automations based email intake by designing a Docker containerized application implementing a MariaDB database with Python Flask layer to automate Office 365 API calls.

Technical Development Program Associate

Enterprise Performance Engineering and Platform Team

• Worked on platform for running large-scale performance testing using Gatling and JMeter 

• Added secrets management by setting up HashiCorp Vault server and creating a Java client to integrate with the platform.

EDUCATION

St. Cloud State University        

Bachelor of Science with Great Distinction in Electrical Engineering - 2020

Notable Courses in Major:

• Microcontroller System Design

• FPGA Based Digital Circuit Design

• Engineering Communication

PROJECTS

Aircraft Icing Conditions Sensor

• Developed cross-platform HMI Python GUI to interpret, store, and graph sensor data transmitted serially via bluetooth from a microcontroller in real time.

Skills: Python, Linux, Git, Docker, Bash, Google Cloud, Java, C/C++, C#, SQL, Assembly