Daan I Leiva

Contact

Phone: 213-408-1597

Email: daan.leiva@gmail.com

Location: Van Nuys, CA 91607

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/daan-leiva

Education

UCLA (2018)
MSc in Computer Science
Emphasis in AI, ML, Bioinformatics

CSU Long Beach (2016)
BSc in Physics & Computer Science
Minor in Applied Mathematics

Expertise

• Python, C++, Kotlin, Java, VB.NET, JavaScript, C#, T-SQL
• TensorFlow, PyTorch, Pandas, NumPy
• Google Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes
• OpenCV

Languages

• English
• Spanish (Fluent)
• Portuguese (Conversational)

Experience

Absolute Technologies, Anaheim, CA
Software Engineer (Jun 2014–Present)

• Lead software development pipeline and manage dev team
• Develop scheduling and projection tools for manufacturing
• Automated error analysis tools for internal database
• Tech stack: TSQL, Python, Qt

Long Beach Water Department, Long Beach, CA
ML/Software Engineer (Oct 2015–2016)

• Built CNN in C++ (FANN) to detect pipeline structural damage from robot camera footage
• Used OpenCV for preprocessing and built a labeled dataset
• Aimed to reduce pipeline inspection time from 10 years to ~1

Nano Optics Research Lab, CSULB
Research Assistant (Winter 2011–Spring 2014)

• Conducted near-field optical experiments with nano-antennas
• Published in PCCP: “Near-field spatial mapping of strongly interacting multiple plasmonic infrared antennas”

Certifications

• Machine Learning Engineering for Production (MLOps) – Aug 2023
• TensorFlow: Advanced Techniques – Aug 2020
• TensorFlow 2: Deep Learning – Jun 2023
• First Principles of Computer Vision – Apr 2023
• Machine Learning Specialization – Mar 2023
• DeepLearning.AI TensorFlow Developer – Feb 2023
• Deep Learning Specialization – Nov 2020