Charles Daniels

Currently contracted to NASA as a member of the core development team on the Cumulus project (https://github.com/nasa/cumulus), which is an open source project aimed at making NASA's Earth Science Data fully open and accessible to all.

Directed the Cloud Operations team (distributed/remote) responsible for running SpliceMachine’s HTAP database product in AWS and Azure.

Designed and implemented client solutions using the Amelia Cognitive Agent platform to automate business processes in various domains. Focused heavily on integrating the platform via Mule ESB (Amelia V2) and Apache Camel (Amelia V3) as well as improving development quality and workflow productivity. * Designed/developed Chat DSL (Groovy), and tool to auto-generate TestNG test classes from Chat DSL files * Designed/developed Apache Camel component extensions (HTTP, Mail, Spring Test) that significantly decreased integration development time and improved performance. * Created Maven Archetype to instantly manifest Gradle projects for Amelia Camel HTTP integrations * Created Groovy DSL for name resolution and code completion for implicit service variables in IntelliJ IDEA * Improved Amelia’s intent understanding via utterance training/classification * Integrated Amelia with Slack via Python using Slack’s Real Time Messaging API * Participated in initial development of Amelia SDK in Go * Member of Cognitive Organization’s "JEDI Council" for defining/evangelizing organizational best practices * Mentored engineers on development best practices (Groovy/Java, Python, Git, Maven/Gradle, Camel)