# Gaven Cox

> Software Engineer at Google - indie game dev when time allows

Location: Greater Boston, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/gaven

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2026 – Present | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

### Founder @ Gingham Games LLC
Jan 2023 – Present | Hull, Massachusetts, United States
Built multi-agent AI pipeline with 15+ specialized agents using Model Context Protocol, significantly reducing development time while maintaining code quality through automated testing.
Developed WebSocket/HTTP API processing 60+ commands/second with OpenAI Gym wrapper, enabling AI agents to learn game mechanics through real-time interaction.
Architected delta-based save system reducing file sizes by 80% while enabling seamless autosave.
Created 20+ decoupled API modules using service facade pattern for clean separation of concerns.
Implemented 40+ test scenarios including visual regression testing via MCP-based screenshot comparison.

### Senior Software Engineer @ VMware
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Subject matter expert for persistence layer, performance optimization, authentication (username/password, LDAP, SAML, OIDC), authorization (RBAC2), distributed systems (multitenancy/multisite), and REST.
Member of the Upgrade Guild, responsible for reviewing and approving 100% of database schema changes across the VMware Cloud Director product.
Led the development of an OAuth 2.0 device handshake client compliant with IETF RFCs 7591, 7592, and 8628.

### Software Engineer III @ VMware
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Led the development of Service Accounts, released in VMware Cloud Director v10.4.0. Work included an OAuth 2.0 device handshake client compliant with RFCs 7591, 7592, and 8628.

### Software Engineer II @ VMware
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Led the implementation of a NIST certified FIPS 140-2 secure mode of operation released in VMware Cloud Director v10.2.2. Work included changes to all cryptographic functions and libraries, entropy generation, authentication, API and SSL frameworks, and keystore/certificate information.
Key contributor to the conversion of legacy API endpoints to the REST OpenAPI standard.

### Software Engineer, Data/Tools @ LIGHTKEEPER, LLC
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Feature owner and lead developer for the data ingestion pipeline conversion from Python version 2.7 to 3.8.
Key contributor for the architecture and development of the Lightkeeper Simulations backend and API, allowing customers to simulate the performance of investment portfolios across historical periods.
Optimized the data ingestion and calculation pipelines, resulting in a 30% net performance improvement.

### Data Engineer @ Dun & Bradstreet
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Waltham, MA
Architected and led the development of a distributed ETL pipeline, through which over two million records per day could be cleaned, resolved to an entity, and leveraged to enrich the D&B Global Contact Authority.
Implemented a neural network classification model to improve D&B GCA job title data accuracy by over 20%.
Developed internal Python modules to standardize model validation, configuration, database interfacing, distributed task queueing, web crawling, logging, and unit testing.

### Data Quality Analyst @ Dun & Bradstreet
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Waltham, MA
Received the D&B COURAGE Award for Spring 2018, awarded quarterly to one individual within the company for demonstrating mentorship, a growth mindset, and an agile philosophy.
Developed an interactive KPI dashboard using Python (Django), HTML, and JavaScript.

### Data Analytics Intern @ EnerNOC
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Developed visualization, analytics, and reporting tools for energy usage calculations using R.
Implemented web scraping tools using Selenium, saving over 200 hours of manual data collection per year.

### Customer Support Engineer Co-op @ EverTrue
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics
Wentworth Institute of Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/gavencox

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Last updated: 2026-03-31