Systems & Full-stack Software Engineer

David Santamaria is a Software Engineer with approximately 1 year of professional experience, including internships at Google and a startup, and recent freelance work for a YC-backed startup. He possesses a strong interest in systems programming, full-stack development, and AI engineering. His technical skills span C++, C, Python, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Next.js, Linux, Docker, SQL, NoSQL, RAG, and Vector DBs. David has a competitive programming background, having won the ICPC Southeast Regionals Division 2 and achieved a Codeforces peak rating of 1506. He actively works on personal projects, including developing an operating system with a keyboard driver and kernel-land shell, a RAG-based Discord bot, a Discord clone for system design practice, and is planning a binarysearch.com clone.