Zhiming Dai

Software Engineer

Atlanta, Georgia, United States7 yrs experience

AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Led a project with half-million-dollar cost savings.
Developed a full-stack AI platform for emotion prediction.
Architected a hardware management module at Dell.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Full-Stack Software Engineer with a focus on AI and Data Engineering.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software DevelopmentFull-stack DevelopmentNatural Language ProcessingData EngineeringProject ManagementIntegration Engineering

Other Skills

TypeScriptC#React.jsJavaScriptAzure DevOps ServerAzure Cosmos DBEngineeringSoftware DesignHTML5EV2Microsoft AzurePython (Programming Language)Natural Language Processing (NLP)FlaskStreamlit

About

· Result driven master student at Georgia Tech (graduating in December 2024) with over 3 years of work experience in software engineering · Former lead developer at Dell, skilled in JavaScript, that can own and lead projects independently and collaboratively · Owned and delivered the “consumables” project with time-sensitive half-million-dollar cost saving implications at Dell

Experience

7 yrs

Total Experience

2 yrs 9 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 4 mos

Current Experience

Microsoft

Software Engineer

Feb 2025 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos · Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Delivering Full-stack agentic AI powered solutions for automated risk register and management within the Azure platform
Integrating advanced models to identify security gaps like architectural flaws and outdated packages.
Extending risk management methods to GitHub to reinforce industry-wide trustworthy AI deployment.

TypeScriptC#React.jsJavaScriptAzure DevOps ServerAzure Cosmos DB+7

Cloudflare

Data Engineer Intern

Jun 2024 – Aug 2024 · 2 mos · Atlanta, Georgia, United States · Remote

· Implemented SQL queries for extraction and analysis of dependency data from BigQuery data warehouse, and internal Postgres metadata databases
· Developed full-stack React web app for visualization of data lineage across 200+ corporate data sources at table level

SQLReact.jsTypeScriptApache AirflowPostgreSQLData Engineering+1

Georgia institute of technology

Research Assistant

Sep 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 9 mos · Atlanta, Georgia, United States · Hybrid

· Researching knowledge-based AI systems, addressing current structural limitations on AI training
· Designed and developed full-stack EmoAI platform enabling feature visualization, user studies, and interaction logging
· Developed emotion-prediction and retrieval-augmented AI models improving interpretability and reliability
· Implemented techniques for network visual inspection (GradCAM, saliency maps) and image style transfer for model reasoning transparency
· Conducted structured studies with technical and non-technical participants to evaluate AI interpretability limitations

Python (Programming Language)Natural Language Processing (NLP)FlaskReact.jsJavaScriptStreamlit+2

Dell emc

4 roles

Software Engineer 2

Promoted

Apr 2023 – Aug 2023 · 4 mos · Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area

o Architected and developed hardware consumable management module, including but not limited to tracking, requesting, reclamation, decommissioning, and reporting. Expanded our instance’s capability of asset management
o Designed and implemented complex data blending logics to automate the process of identifying ownership of VMware virtual machine instances, significantly cutting down the gap for vulnerabilities
o Led the efforts for transitioning the deployment of MID Servers to Tanzu Kubernetes from virtual machines

Problem SolvingSoftware DevelopmentREST APIsHTML5Attention to DetailFront-End Development+9

Software Engineer 1

Feb 2021 – Apr 2023 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area

o Designed and developed user interfaces with Service Portal Widgets/Pages, UI Macro/UI Pages, Catalog Items, etc.
o Developed integrations with external systems such as Jira, CenterScape, and QuickBase with REST and events
o Developed multi-instance ServiceNow integration, syncing millions of assets registry data entries across multiple internal ServiceNow instances in real-time, while eliminating the need for licenses for Instance Data Replication
o Integrated CryptoJS module and used AES for end-to-end encryption during REST API calls to enhance security
o Experienced in all phases of software development including planning, developing, testing (UAT), and deployment

Problem SolvingSoftware DevelopmentREST APIsHTML5Attention to DetailJelly+12

Software Engineer Intern

Jun 2020 – Jul 2020 · 1 mo · Durham, North Carolina, United States

· Full-Stack development engineer in a team of 4 to research and develop a reporting Node.js dashboard web app
· Implemented Airflow DAGs to automate daily ETL processes from the Datawarehouse to MongoDB
· Analyzed and visualized data from MongoDB with MongoDB Aggregation, Python, MS Excel and Tableau
· Created interactive charts to visualize data analysis results with NodeJS, Bootstrap, Google Charts and Webpack

Problem SolvingSoftware DevelopmentREST APIsAttention to DetailNode.jsFront-End Development+5

Analytics Engineer Co-op

May 2019 – Dec 2019 · 7 mos · Durham, North Carolina, United States

· Implemented a comprehensive lab audit and reporting tool with MS Excel, introducing a complete lab audit and data cleanup workflow that can be used by LabOps to support all Dell EMC labs
· Researched and performed lab asset management on over 40,000 assets with over 3000 models with Microsoft Excel and ServiceNow, increasing records accuracy and obtaining hands-on lab experience

Problem SolvingSoftware DevelopmentAttention to DetailScrumCommunication

North carolina state university

2 roles

IT Assistant at NC State University Student Centers

Promoted

Jan 2019 – Oct 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos · Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

· Keep track of incidences, tickets, inventories with NCSU ServiceNow and Spreadsheets
· Collaborate as a team to provide professional technical support (reimaging, installing software) for multiple devices

Problem SolvingSoftware DevelopmentAttention to DetailCommunication

Barista

Aug 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos · Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Problem SolvingAttention to DetailCommunication

Nc state electrical & computer engineering

Undergraduate Researcher at Wei's Research Group

Jan 2019 – Dec 2019 · 11 mos · Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

· Designed, implemented and optimized Android Apps capable of image processing and data visualizing, offering more portable, efficient solutions for image analysis in our lab
· Experience on Java Programming Language, IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio environment
· Publication: Li, Z., Zhang, S., Yu, T., Dai, Z., & Wei, Q. (2019). Aptamer-Based Fluorescent Sensor Array for Multiplexed Detection of Cyanotoxins on a Smartphone. Analytical Chemistry, doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b00750

Problem SolvingSoftware DevelopmentAttention to DetailCommunicationScripting