About


I'm Diego Valdes, Data Engineer.

My experience includes software development, database design, and data analysis.

I've also built a modest collection of side projects.

I earned a Bachelor in Computer Science from the University of South Carolina.

Work Experience


Associate Data Engineer

The Hartford

Jun 2018 - Pres

I am excited to begin my career at The Hartford where I will be working with technologies to include Informatica, Oracle, Hadoop, Pig, Hive, and Sqoop to develop data assets that support organizational and decision making.

Undergraduate Researcher |
Data Scientist

University of South Carolina

Jan 2017 - Jun 2018

Designed a relational database management system using data from the PDB. Perl and Python scripts were used to parse, insert, query, and clean the PDB data in the RDBMS. The database is currently being used for data mining, exploration and discovery, and data analysis.

Undergraduate Researcher |
Software Developer

University of South Carolina

Jan 2016 - Jun 2018

Developed a system to assist in the triage of patients during mass casualty events. System consisted of multiple components to include an Android application, LAMP, and MatLab models to predict exposure to chemical agents.

Publications


  EDICT: A Mobile Decision Support Tool for Emergency Departments and Mass Casualty Incidents

Nicholas Boltin, Diego Valdes, Joan Culley, Homayoun Valafar

JMIR mHealth and uHealth, Original Paper

2018

  Protein Folding using Big Data Analytics

Diego Valdes, Homayoun Valafar

NISBRE, iPoster

2018

  AdviseMe: A solution to College Advisement Errors

Tyler Hall, Ethan Harmon, Lawton Mizell, Tyler Moon, Diego Valdes

Capstone Design Showcase, Poster

2018

  Mobile Application development for Pulse Oximeter Sensors

Jillian Carroll, Cassandra Cook, Olivia Coyle, Riley Meekins, Homayoun Valafar, Nick Boltin, Diego Valdes

USC BMEN Senior Design Day, Poster

2017

  Big Data Analytics of the Protein Data Bank

Diego Valdes, Homayoun Valafar

SC INBRE, Poster

2017

  An AI Model for Rapid and Accurate Identification of Chemical Agents in Mass Casualty Incidents

Nick Boltin, Daniel Vu, Bethany Janos, Diego Valdes, Joan Culley, Homayoun Valafar

SC INBRE, Poster

2016

Projects


Cindy's List

Triage

PDB Relational Database

AdviseMe