Katy Tran

Software Engineer

Expected graduation: Dec 2023

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, College of Engineering - Cumulative GPA: 3.96/4.0

Related Courseworks: Data Abstraction and Structures, Advanced Java Programming, Programming Methodologies in C++

Programming Languages: JavaScript, Typescript, Java, Python, Ruby, C++, HTML, CSS, SQL

Databases: MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL

Frameworks/Libraries: ExpressJS, ReactJS, Redux, NextJS, Rails, Django, Material UI, jQuery, SpringBoot, Hibernate

Cloud Services: Heroku, AWS-S3, Google Cloud Coldline

Software/Tools: Visual Studio, IntelliJ, Git, Microsoft Office, Adobe Suite, SAP, Photoshop, Slack, Jira, Asana, Figma

Software Engineer Intern

Jun 2022 – Sep 2022

Built an RPC microservice that offloads secured cryptographic sign and decrypt operations for a TLS handshake service and improves TLS private key security.
Refactored a shared library that assists 50 million TLS connections per second to Google production.
Implemented a backend server that reduces CPU usage of the internal TLS handshaker by allowing it to run on shared Google’s Borg.
Created a design doc proposing solutions for project reliability, scalability, monitoring, deployment plan, load-shedding and load-balancing.
Developed a monitoring metrics system with visualization to alert critical system failures.

Software Engineer Intern

Jun 2021 – Sep 2021

Built an internal dashboard that automatically updates schedules for administrative teams, reducing scheduling time per showing from an hour to 10 minutes.
Implemented validation algorithms to automatically remove duplicated data from a 3rd API party before updating and populating to the database, decreasing data cleaning time by 20%.
Developed a notification system tracker enabling streamline communications between renters and agents that decreases canceled showing rates by 80%.
Refactored and optimized codebase to reduce production bundle size by 15%.
Achieved SEO optimization by migrating 6 components from Create React App to Next.js and testing with Karate.
Collaborated with UX designers to build a fully responsive site with Tailwind to ensure consistent delivery of a high-quality dynamic UI and intuitive UX for the user per the design specifications.

Tech Director

June 2021 - Present

Mentored new team members on relevant technologies, including React.js, Node.js, and AWS.
Kept the teams on track with project process by using agile scrum method.
Led the development on the application portal and main event website for SLO Hacks’ 300 person hackathon.

A platform that allows patients to get medication prescribed online

Built an admin dashboard to manage data of patients, doctors, orders, and products using PostgreSQL database.
Implemented backend API with Java SpringBoot and real time chat with WebSocket.

A social app that allows users to keep in touch

Accomplished OOP-based social network app that applied graph data structure to track the relationship between users.
Managed user database using MySQL and provided a user-friendly using Java Swing

E-commerce platform that offers personal care and beauty products

Implemented Oauth2, applied Bcrypt and JWT to securely store user passwords to persist authenticated user sessions.
Handled images upload process using Cloudinary, set up Stripe and Paypal payment.
Built an admin dashboard to manage 1000+ products, orders, reviews.
Developed RESTful API using Node.JS and Express.js with MongoDB as a persistence layer, deployed to Heroku.
Awarded second place demo day of Coderschool.

A movie recommendation site that allows users to check out new movies, watch trailers and read reviews.

Delivered a responsive user-friendly interface for both desktop and mobile usingMDBootstrap.
Fetched and test from rest API using Postman and deployed to Netlify.

A social platform that allows users to write blogs, comments, send likes and reactions.

Lead and guided a team of 3 members to complete a single - page social blog web application in MERN stack.
Implemented login flow, Redux CRUD for blogs, reviews and emoji reactions, process images usingCloudinary.
Incorporated Redux Thunk to invoke action dispatch and handle asynchronous data fetching.

Built a meme maker app that handles file upload and manipulates images using Multer.
Allows users to upload and add text on the image to create memes using Jimp.
Accomplished resizability of uploaded images to 400x400 and stored the original images and the meme on the server.