DAVID SMERESKI

CAPABILITIES

EXPERIENCE

1. 01

   Feb 2024 → PRESENT

   Remote

   QA Automation Test Engineer

   The Weather Company

   Owns automated end-to-end test coverage for weather.com and Wunderground.com, two of the highest-traffic weather properties on the public internet. Runs a Selenium Grid for parallel cross-browser execution and the CI, reporting, and alerting that surround it.

   • →Owns the test suites that gate every weather.com and Wunderground.com release.
   • →Operates a Selenium Grid for parallel cross-browser, cross-platform execution.
   • →Runs Jenkins pipelines for scheduled regressions, PR gates, and post-deploy smoke.
   • →Pipes results to Report Portal for dashboards, flake detection, and release-over-release trend analysis.
   • →Wires Slack into the pipeline for live build status, failure routing, and on-call notifications.
   • →Partners with product and engineering to close coverage gaps before they ship to production traffic.

2. 02

   Sept 2022 → FEB 2024

   Remote

   QA Automation Test Engineer (Mobile)

   The Weather Company

   Owned automated test coverage for The Weather Channel mobile apps on Android and iOS. Same Jenkins, Report Portal, and Slack toolchain as the current web role, applied to mobile.

   • →Built and maintained automated test suites for the TWC Android and iOS apps.
   • →Ran tests across OS versions and device profiles to catch platform regressions before release.
   • →Integrated mobile runs into Jenkins, with Report Portal dashboards and Slack-routed failure alerts.
   • →Triaged flaky tests with mobile engineering and tightened coverage where releases kept slipping.

3. 03

   2025 → PRESENT

   Remote

   Full-Stack Builder

   Independent

   Designs, ships, and operates production software end-to-end. Active surface area spans web, cross-platform mobile and desktop, and self-hosted AI tooling, deployed on a mix of Vercel, Supabase, and on-prem infrastructure.

   • →Built and shipped FreedomGuards.space — eighteen-surface guild platform on Next.js 16, React 19, Prisma, Postgres, Supabase, NextAuth, and Upstash. Owns auth, rate-limited public APIs, audit logging, event and RSVP flows, and the admin surface members never see and officers use weekly.
   • →Shipped Jazzy on the 8s — match-three game on Kotlin Multiplatform with Compose UI across Android and Desktop, 12k+ lines of shared logic, MVVM with StateFlow, plus a hidden combination-lock layer that unlocks themes and full mini-games on the title screen.
   • →Operates imageToVideo — local Gradio app wrapping image-to-video diffusion pipelines, with CUDA-aware GPU routing across two RTX 5060 Ti cards while keeping the gaming RTX 4080 isolated. Prompt presets, batch queue, webhook integration with a Discord bot fleet.
   • →Runs an internal AI swarm of Discord bots and Claude Code Skills for ideation, code review, content generation, and ops. SPARC methodology, hierarchical topology, raft consensus, persistent memory backed by HNSW vector search.
   • →Maintains a private gitea, the home network it runs on, and the on-call rotation that catches problems before users do.

4. 04

   Sept 2015 → OCT 2016

   Remote

   Remote Technician

   Savant CTS

   Tier 1 phone support and onsite-install prep for a managed services provider serving SMB clients.

   • →Delivered phone-based desktop support over Labtech and ScreenConnect across a multi-client SMB book.
   • →Managed tickets and time tracking in ConnectWise, hitting SLA on the majority of cases.
   • →Prepped and validated hardware for onsite technician installs.

5. 05

   May 2015 → SEPT 2015

   Atlanta, GA

   Google Administrator

   The Weather Channel — TOC

   Company-wide administrator for Google Apps for Work at The Weather Channel. Owned reporting, user-issue resolution, and stakeholder communication.

   • →Administered Google Apps across every internal user at The Weather Channel.
   • →Authored custom reports that fed weekly management briefings.
   • →Resolved Google issues end-to-end, from inbox-level support to permission and policy changes.

6. 06

   June 2012 → SEPT 2015

   Atlanta, GA

   Technician

   The Weather Channel — TOC

   NOC technician for one of the most-trafficked weather properties on the internet. Monitored systems, networks, databases, and public-facing site availability around the clock.

   • →Monitored systems, networks, and databases with Zabbix, Nagios, and SevOne.
   • →Tracked site and CDN availability with Keynote and Catchpoint.
   • →Drove outage comms to internal stakeholders and key customers including Google, Yahoo, and Apple.
   • →Covered Tier 1 desktop help-desk on rotation.

7. 07

   2009 → PRESENT

   GA, US

   Owner / DJ

   Digital Entertainment Services

   Owner-operator of an event DJ business serving Berry College and a steady private-client roster. End-to-end across booking, planning, setup, and on-night execution.

   • →Books and runs events for college, corporate, and private clients.
   • →Owns equipment, set design, and night-of operations for every booking.

EDUCATION

• Chattahoochee Tech

  Coursework: HTML, CSS, PHP, Internet Security, Program Design and Development, C#, SQL, Accounting.

• Southern Poly Tech

  Coursework: Java.

• Georgia Highlands College

  Coursework: Java, Microsoft Office Suite, Business Basics.

• Harrison High School

  Graduated 2007. Programming coursework: C++, Java, Pascal.

• Continuing self-directed study

  Ongoing: production Next.js, React 19, Kotlin Multiplatform, AI agent orchestration, applied diffusion models, Linux operations.