Alex DeBoni

employment

Senior Software Engineer June 2015 — Present
Varian Medical Systems Palo Alto, CA

• Develops hardware and software to automate and aid in the manufacture of radiation therapy machines.
• Creates design requirements, risk assessment, test case and validation documentations to meet FDA standards for validation of new automation software.

Consultant November 2014 — April 2015
Pelican Imaging Santa Clara, CA

• Wrote code to automate camera testing and validation, through both robotic stages and image post-processing.

Computation Intern Summer 2013 and 2014
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, National Ignition Facility Livermore, CA

• Developed quickly and inexpensively a functional physical-layer hardware-software simulator and low-level communication testing tools using Java on Windows and Linux for validating hardware-software interactions in the x-ray imaging system of the National Ignition Facility. This simulator was utilized to extensively verify the control communications outside of the restrictive NIF production environment.
• Ensured maximum operator productivity at the NIF by identifying the root cause and finding a solution for the cameras’ failures. Developed tools to analyze digital camera firmware, drivers, and vendor APIs to identify resource usage and problems. The drivers were reverse-engineered and found to have concurrency problems. Wrote efficient Linux libraries and APIs for Firewire IIDC and GigE Vision cameras, allowing the use for cheaper and more available hardware.

education

Master of Science in Computer Engineering September 2014 — December 2016
Santa Clara University Santa Clara, CA
Emphasis in Software Engineering

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering September 2011 — June 2015
Santa Clara University Santa Clara, CA
Graduated with Honors and Magna Cum Laude

technical skills

projects

To see some code I have written, visit my GitHub account.