DANI
Developer / Designer / System Admin / Client Relations
Email: dani@danidoes.dev
Site: https://danidoes.dev

EXPERIENCE

Senior Computer Specialist - University of Washington, Pediatrics
Seattle, WA | Jul 2023 - Dec 2025
- Provided senior-level endpoint and client support across a large clinical
  and academic department, acting as a trusted technical point of contact
  for faculty, staff, and researchers.
- Diagnosed and resolved complex hardware, software, and account issues,
  translating technical constraints into plain language for non-technical
  stakeholders.
- Worked within the constraints of a clinical environment, keeping systems
  people depend on daily available and compliant with institutional
  security and privacy policy.

Client Endpoint Admin - University of Colorado Boulder, Leeds School of Business
Boulder, CO | Jul 2021 - Jun 2023
- Managed and maintained domain-joined endpoints for faculty and staff,
  handling provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle support across the
  school.
- Worked closely with faculty and staff on daily IT issues and requests,
  supporting third-party applications and general software needs.
- Facilitated IT onboarding and orientation for new hires, getting people
  set up and productive from day one.
- Helped move the department onto ITIL-aligned practices and stood up its
  knowledge base, turning repeat fixes into documentation the whole team
  could work from.

Desktop Support Team Lead - University of Colorado Boulder, Office of Information Technology
Boulder, CO | Mar 2018 - May 2021
- Led a team of 15+ student technicians at the front-facing office of
  campus IT: owned scheduling, served as the team's point of contact, and
  oversaw daily operations while reporting to full-time management.
- Held the team to consistent ticket and incident handling, seeing issues
  through to resolution and escalating cleanly when needed.
- Worked the help desk directly, resolving hardware, software, and account
  issues under high ticket volume.
- Developed a foundation in customer service and de-escalation that
  carried through every role since.

INDEPENDENT AND COMMISSION WORK

StreamBuddy
2021 - Present
- Bespoke software commissions for streamers with large audiences, scoping
  requirements directly with clients and shipping tools tailored to their
  production needs.
- Grew that client work into a full AI co-host platform: a Godot voice
  client and cloud backend, with Twitch chat integration and moderation,
  long-term bot memory, and user-uploaded PNGtuber characters.

StreamBuddy VTuber Avatar Viewer
2025
- Standalone Godot client built for a single streamer, hooking into the
  StreamBuddy platform to drive a custom-made Live2D avatar.
- Integrated the native Live2D SDK directly to render and animate the
  avatar in the client.

EDUCATION

B.EnvD, Environmental Design (Product Design focus) - University of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, CO | May 2021
- Studied human-centered design principles and process: observing real
  user needs, iterating on concepts, and designing for the way people
  actually inhabit and move through spaces and systems.
- That process now shapes how software and game design decisions get
  made: starting from the player or user, not the technology.

CORE STRENGTHS

Client Relations - Years of direct, high-volume client and customer
support across higher-ed and healthcare IT, plus independent commission
work. Comfortable owning the relationship end-to-end.

System Admin - Endpoint administration and IT infrastructure support
across university and healthcare environments - provisioning,
troubleshooting, and maintaining systems that people depend on daily.

Design - A formal design education in human-centered process, applied to
software, game systems, and interaction design.

Development - Full-stack and game development across Godot, GDScript, C#,
Python, FastAPI, Django, PostgreSQL, and JavaScript/Node.js. Shipped
projects include:
  - Murmurations - a 3D physics-based sci-fi metroidbrainia built in Godot
  - StreamBuddy - an AI co-host platform for live streamers
  - Bugs - a browser-based neural-network creature evolution simulation
  - Who's Whose - an LLM-matched social deduction party game (in development)

Full project details: https://danidoes.dev