Kenny Tran CS @ UC Santa Barbara

Curriculum Vitæ

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Education

University of California, Santa Barbara

Computer Science B.S. | Oct 2020 - June 2024

College of Engineering Honors Program - GPA 3.58

Partnerships and Finances Officer @ Gaucho Gaming

  • Coordinated yearly budgets and secured sponsorships and funding with various tech companies, including MSI, Corsair, and Seasonic
Relevant Coursework
  • Data Structures and Algorithms I/II (CS130A-B, F22-W23)
  • Probability and Statistics I/II (PSTAT 120A-B, W22-S22)
  • Intro to Computational Science (CS 111, W23)
  • Computer Architecture (CS 154, W23)
  • Automata Theory (CS 138, S23)
  • Intro to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (CS 165A-B, S23)
  • Advanced Application Programming (CS 156, S23)
  • Mobile App Development (CS 184, F23)
  • Fundamentals of Database Systems (CS 174A, F23)
  • Algorithms Engineering (CS 190I, W24)
  • Operating Systems (CS 170, W24)
  • Parallel Computing (CS 140, W24)
  • Compiler Design (CS 160, S24)
  • Networking and Cybersecurity (CS 177, S24)

Work Experience

Data Engineer Intern @ Daesy Analytics & Trading LLC

Remote | May 2023 - Aug 2023
  • Designed and developed a new database management system, increasing efficiency by ~45% through indexing and SQL query optimization, resulting in efficient and enhanced data retrieval
  • Engineered data pipelines through statistical analysis of large-scale financial market data using Python
  • Designed interactive data visualizations with Python (Matplotlib, Seaborn), enabling real-time insights and dynamic analysis of complex financial market patterns

Projects

Source code for projects can be found on my Github or by request.

Financial Information eXchange (FIX) Parser + Algorithmic Trader

July 2024 | C++, QuickFIX, Python
  • Working on an algorithmic trading system utilizing the FIX protocol to receive real-time financial data
  • Planned features include financial modelling and automated execution of low-latency trades

“Wave” - Social Mobile App

Dec 2023 | Flutter, Dart, Google Firebase, Android/iOS
  • Directed Agile team of four to develop ‘Wave,’ a cross-platform mobile app allowing users to share open invitations to events, with the Flutter framework and Dart language
  • Integrated OAuth and utilized Firestore Cloud Databases to optimize real-time data management of 100+ users
  • Performed regular code reviews of team code, identifying code smells and refactoring code where needed
  • Distinguished by teaching team as one of the top projects of the course

“StarsRUs” - Database Management System (DBMS)

Nov 2023 | Java, JDBC, Oracle Cloud, SQL
  • Engineered DBMS for fictional brokerage, leveraging SQL queries on Oracle Cloud-based relational database
  • Collaborated with partner to design database architecture and relations, ensuring compliance with Boyce-Codd Normal Form (BCNF)
  • Optimized query performance, reducing response time by 40% and enhancing data security protocols
  • Received exceptionally positive feedback from teaching team for system’s reliability and responsiveness

mnist-draw

Sept 2023 | Python, TensorFlow/Keras
  • Developed a program that uses a neural network to predict a user’s hand-drawn number with 95% accuracy.

“patbot” - Personal Discord Bot

Sept 2021 | Python, discord.py
  • Implemented a Discord bot using a Python Discord API wrapper (discord.py, Nextcord) and hosted via Heroku.
  • Features a music player, minigames, and, adapting the Markov chain model from the Twitter bot below, a message generator.
  • Utilized by dozens of Discord communities at peak usage, reaching estimated audience of 800+ users

“@wine_bot_mathew” - Tweet Generating Twitter Bot

Sept 2020 | Python, Heroku, Twitter API/Tweepy
  • Developed a Twitter bot in Python utilizing a Markov chain in order to generate Tweets based on a corpus of tweets scraped from a friend’s Twitter account (corpus updates every time a new Tweet is posted).
  • Currently not functional due to Twitter’s API changes as of October 2023 :(

Other

Technical Skills

Languages: Python, C/C++, Java, Javascript, Dart, HTML/CSS, R, SQL, Bash/Shell, Assembly Frameworks: React, Node.js, Flutter, TensorFlow/Keras, Oracle Cloud, Git, Docker, Linux, Google Firebase

Languages

English (native), Vietnamese (fluent), Spanish (basic)