Yaima Valdivia
Principal Software Engineer at NETSCOUT
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolYaima Valdivia is a Principal Software Engineer and AI researcher with a decade of experience building security-first systems and AI agent platforms from San Francisco. She designs and implements cybersecurity services and PKI-like solutions using Go, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and GraphQL, and has led efforts across IoT, home automation, and enterprise security at companies including DigiCert, Vercara, Neustar, and Samsung. With an MSCS focused on Interactive Intelligence from Georgia Tech and a background in self-driving car technologies, she bridges academic AI research and production engineering. Yaima also teaches game AI and video game design, speaks publicly on industry topics, and champions ethical AI — a combination that surfaces both deep systems craftsmanship and thoughtful consideration of AI impacts.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Systems Engineering, BS, Computer Systems Engineering at Universidad Latina de Costa RicaMaster of Science in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence at Georgia Institute of TechnologyNanodegree, Intro to Self-Driving Cars, Nanodegree, Intro to Self-Driving Cars at Udacity
French, English, Spanish, Italian
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Github Skills (31)
code-generator10
smartapp10
open-source10
upnp10
internet-of-things10
smartthings10
code-generation10
api10
zwave10
zigbee10
swagger9
rest9
golang9
go9
oas9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Yaima/SmartThingsPublic
Nov 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:59 pushes, 2 branches, 7 tags in 5 months
Yaima/episodic-memory-pyactr
Nov 2024 - Nov 2025
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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