Kyle Tran Email & Phone Number

San Jose, California, United States

Manage several projects related to our government contracts. At Honeywell Kansas City (for the DoE), continue to work with customer and expand the number of instruments we support for PLI Analytics. Created PoC application for Lab Test Measurment PLI LTM to validate and maintain the precision and accuracy of the equipment.For Navy's Advance Weapons Elevator (AWE), my focus was on improving the emulation by improving the configuration and better model the movements of the elevator.… Show more Manage several projects related to our government contracts. At Honeywell Kansas City (for the DoE), continue to work with customer and expand the number of instruments we support for PLI Analytics. Created PoC application for Lab Test Measurment PLI LTM to validate and maintain the precision and accuracy of the equipment.For Navy's Advance Weapons Elevator (AWE), my focus was on improving the emulation by improving the configuration and better model the movements of the elevator. Added additional counter information similar to what is expected from the Programmable Logic Controller (PLC).Research and prototyping in the areas of LLM for the development of Knowledge Assistant. Show less

South San Francisco, California, United States

Worked in the Commercial Digital Health department of AZ. Managed a development team in Bangalore, India consisting of software and data engineers, and engage with Brand to understand their needs. Assisted in the development of Dynamic Segmentation Targeting (DST) application for several of AZ biopharmaceutical brands. The objective of DST is to use data science to segment health care providers (HCPs) in degrees of loyalty to the brand. This information helps sales representative tailor… Show more Worked in the Commercial Digital Health department of AZ. Managed a development team in Bangalore, India consisting of software and data engineers, and engage with Brand to understand their needs. Assisted in the development of Dynamic Segmentation Targeting (DST) application for several of AZ biopharmaceutical brands. The objective of DST is to use data science to segment health care providers (HCPs) in degrees of loyalty to the brand. This information helps sales representative tailor their on label messaging to the HCPs. The work primarily involved translating requirements from Brand to technical tasks for delivery and to drive the delivery process. We were developing a tool that allowed Brand to stitch together workflows consisting of ML modules (such as deciling, k-means, etc). The workflow would take in petabytes of claims data along with the enrichment from the data science models for HCP propensity and patient eligibility. This would allow the creation of custom segmentation of HCPs for each Brand.Also worked on providing the initial ground work for their Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) of DS & AI Application. The work involved provide some process and guideline which starts from proposal intake to post product support. This involved for each step along the way, what are the pre-requises, the work to be done, and the deliverable (which tend to be the input for the next step). Proposed a Confluence layout for DS & AI Application including a standardize layout with page templates for each product/project to follow. This work involves coming up with guidelines for different groups that is part of the SDLC, socialize the proposal guidelines to elicit feedback, and work on a finalized and accepted process. Show less

San Jose, California, United States

Software Engineer Manager - Peaxy, San Jose, CA (Mar 2020 - Jul 2023)Manage several projects related to our government contracts. At Honeywell Kansas City (for the DoE), we customized our Peaxy Lifecycle Intelligence (PLI) to support the scientists. We created a data pipeline that collected files from lab instruments, parsed the data and stored them into a database. Their PLI provides them custom visualization of the data as dictated by the scientists as well as management of that… Show more Software Engineer Manager - Peaxy, San Jose, CA (Mar 2020 - Jul 2023)Manage several projects related to our government contracts. At Honeywell Kansas City (for the DoE), we customized our Peaxy Lifecycle Intelligence (PLI) to support the scientists. We created a data pipeline that collected files from lab instruments, parsed the data and stored them into a database. Their PLI provides them custom visualization of the data as dictated by the scientists as well as management of that data. This was an air-gap deployment that started as a Proof of Concept (PoC) and now PLI is part of their software offerring integrated into their LDAP and single signon environment supporting dozens of instruments with more being added over time.For the Navy's Advance Weapons Elevator (AWE), we customized PLI for Condition Base Maintenance (CBM+) PoC, this was comprised of two parts. One was would be for the crew and the other to control the elevators. The crew screens consisted of two primary views. The Overwatch view was a 2-D dynamic logical view of all elevators displaying state of its doors, ramps, etc and their fault states. There was a 3-D view of the elevator, that help zero in on fault location. For CBM+, sailors would have pareto of the failed parts. They would also online access to the technical manual to assist in repairs. The PLI also provide a means to track the life cycle of the failures. The other part of the application drove the AWE simulation, allowing the movements of the elevators as well as introduce faults into the system.For the Navy's Applied Research Lab (ARL), we customized PLI for CBM of the High Pressure Air Compressor (HPAC), the Advanced Carbon-dioxide Removal Unit (ACRU), and the Battery Management System (BMS) for the Virginia class attack submarines. We provide visualization of the equipment's health at a component level. By using sensor data from the assets, we hope to create ML algorithms in order to detect failures before they occur. Show less

San Jose, Ca

Managed a team of 9 engineers. Our charter was to assist the continuous building, deployment, and testing of Cisco's Digital Network Architecture Center (DNAC) product. The complexity here, is that DNAC was not a single product but was a composition of many networking applications dependent upon one another. The job consist of ensuring the quality of DNAC through a suite of testing across multiple machines. This requires building proper automation tooling that integrates with Jenkins… Show more Managed a team of 9 engineers. Our charter was to assist the continuous building, deployment, and testing of Cisco's Digital Network Architecture Center (DNAC) product. The complexity here, is that DNAC was not a single product but was a composition of many networking applications dependent upon one another. The job consist of ensuring the quality of DNAC through a suite of testing across multiple machines. This requires building proper automation tooling that integrates with Jenkins, extracting logs and sending generated reports to the offending team. Many of the Jenkin runs took hours, so it was essential to provide constant monitoring. There was continuous effort at reducing build, deployment and testing. Our work was data driven, so we constant collected metrics from our pipeline, sending logs and data into Elastic Search, InfluxDB, and Postgres. We used that data as part of our failure detection, developing statistical and ML models. The derived metrics was also used to create a shared dashboard providing transparency for the Business Unit (BU). Show less

San Jose

Worked in the area of System Management (SM) for the Aureum product, which is a high-availability, cost-effective, scalable storage cluster platform with compute facilities that reacts to file operations. I have worked with this product from beta to its current version. The product runs on Linux CentOS using Hypervisor and LXC Containers to provide an abstraction from commoditized hardware. I managed 4 to 5 other engineers for the last 3 years, setting priorities and assigning tasks and… Show more Worked in the area of System Management (SM) for the Aureum product, which is a high-availability, cost-effective, scalable storage cluster platform with compute facilities that reacts to file operations. I have worked with this product from beta to its current version. The product runs on Linux CentOS using Hypervisor and LXC Containers to provide an abstraction from commoditized hardware. I managed 4 to 5 other engineers for the last 3 years, setting priorities and assigning tasks and defects. I helped sustain the existing product in the field as well as lead effort to incorporate new features in new releases. We also had to re-architect the original SM code to make it more manageable. This required devising a strategy to evolve the product from the original code base to a more sustainable one. I assisted teammates with feature designs and provide technical assistances as needed. On the technical aspects, I helped layout the base infrastructural pieces of the product. I personally worked on the out of the box installation, workflow engine, persistence layer, storage class management, online/offline upgrade, certificate security, add/decommission of nodes, user management, domain user interface, configuration propagation, file indexing, file search, search statistics, dossier management, thumbnail generation, and compute node management. Show less

Built out QA environment for PayPal TurboRoller (TR), a tool to rollout thousands of packages to thousands of machines on a live site. Helped maintain TR. Architected and implemented RM LabelMaker (LM) and RE Orchestration (REO) tools, a couple of Web Application Tools that is part of a suite of tools for PayPal's next generation development to Live site. The LM is a tool which creates and manages life cycles of label, where a label describes the packages that will be pushed to a live data… Show more Built out QA environment for PayPal TurboRoller (TR), a tool to rollout thousands of packages to thousands of machines on a live site. Helped maintain TR. Architected and implemented RM LabelMaker (LM) and RE Orchestration (REO) tools, a couple of Web Application Tools that is part of a suite of tools for PayPal's next generation development to Live site. The LM is a tool which creates and manages life cycles of label, where a label describes the packages that will be pushed to a live data center. The REO orchestrates a rollout of packages to nodes in a data center, and manages the services in the data center, via an API layer to Puppet, OpenStack and HEAT. Technologies used: Spring, Java, GWT, JDBC, ActiveMQ, Tomcat 7, JSP, jQuery, Git. Show less

Palo Alto, Ca

Part of the Cloud Service team responsible for supporting the Nook and NookColor. Developed a Storage Service for other Cloud components to store large blob information. Also developed the Upload Service which utilized the Storage Service to upload and store consumer usage information and device error logs. Developed the Address Book Service to store consumer contacts retrieved from Google, Facebook, or from the Nook. Also developed Social Network Services including OAuth for Google, Facebook,… Show more Part of the Cloud Service team responsible for supporting the Nook and NookColor. Developed a Storage Service for other Cloud components to store large blob information. Also developed the Upload Service which utilized the Storage Service to upload and store consumer usage information and device error logs. Developed the Address Book Service to store consumer contacts retrieved from Google, Facebook, or from the Nook. Also developed Social Network Services including OAuth for Google, Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter to retrieve data and/or interact with the social network providers on our customers behalf. Technologies used: JDBC, Spring, JSP, and Jetty, ActiveMQ, Memcache. Show less

Sunnyvale, Ca

Help develop a management system for MaxiScale cloud file storage cluster. Worked on infrastructural components for the servers, management client, and the CLI; primary ownership was with the client and CLI. The project evolved, and due to performance needs we replaced our use of JBoss, Seam, Hibernate, and EJB, to lighter weight Java applications using RMI, file persistence, and Tomcat. Code generation using Velocity and XDoclet were written to generate boiler plate code; such as RMI calls… Show more Help develop a management system for MaxiScale cloud file storage cluster. Worked on infrastructural components for the servers, management client, and the CLI; primary ownership was with the client and CLI. The project evolved, and due to performance needs we replaced our use of JBoss, Seam, Hibernate, and EJB, to lighter weight Java applications using RMI, file persistence, and Tomcat. Code generation using Velocity and XDoclet were written to generate boiler plate code; such as RMI calls between the server and the client, file persistence mechanism, SOAP APIs to our product, CLI interface, and i18n string localization. The GUI using JSF required creating custom JSF tags that were generic enough to use with our Java template components; this allowed for widespread reuse of tables, accordions, and other widgets. Since MaxiScale cloud file storage is a clustered environment, we relied on RMI for our event notification to the root node and map-reduced calls for cluster wide operation and cluster wide data retrieval. There was a large emphasis on minimizing resource and network bandwidth use, in order to allow the file system side greater usage. Show less

San Jose, Ca

Participated in three releases of Fabric Manager, worked on both server and client side. Major contribution was the development of a new client framework that addresses the short comings of Brocade’s old Fabric Manager Client (FMC). The new FMC was designed with the following notion in mind: I18n, uniform LnF, topology framework, and scalability.The client (and modules) interacts with the server through EJB delegates and JMS for updates. I also contributed on server-side development for… Show more Participated in three releases of Fabric Manager, worked on both server and client side. Major contribution was the development of a new client framework that addresses the short comings of Brocade’s old Fabric Manager Client (FMC). The new FMC was designed with the following notion in mind: I18n, uniform LnF, topology framework, and scalability.The client (and modules) interacts with the server through EJB delegates and JMS for updates. I also contributed on server-side development for certain Java Services, EJBs and JMS which were relevant to the FMC framework and the client plug-ins. A complete project cycle involves writing Functional Spec and Design Spec, document reviews, code development and review, alpha, beta, and release. There were many team members involved (20+) in the full FM release including offshore development. Technology involved: JBoss, XML, Java, Swing, EJB 2.1, SyBase-Anywhere (db), Ant, XDoclet, JMS, iLog, SwiXML Show less

Santa Clara, Ca

Lead a development team to create an embedded client-server management system. The management system is to manage a FileSwitch which allows the aggregation of volumes exported from File Servers resulting in virtualized volumes. This is built upon JBoss Application Server. Development of the MBeans provides the business logic while persistence is stored in an embedded database. The server interacts with ancillary devices such as file server through various providers. The bridge between Java and… Show more Lead a development team to create an embedded client-server management system. The management system is to manage a FileSwitch which allows the aggregation of volumes exported from File Servers resulting in virtualized volumes. This is built upon JBoss Application Server. Development of the MBeans provides the business logic while persistence is stored in an embedded database. The server interacts with ancillary devices such as file server through various providers. The bridge between Java and native code (C# and C/C++) is through an XML-RPC bridge. There are two management clients developed from an RMI-API interface: a GUI Applet/Application which uses Swing and a Command Line Interface (CLI). We developed a mechanism to auto generate the CLI. The FileSwitch can operate independently or in concert with other FileSwitches in order to scale for load balancing. Technology involved: JBoss, XML, MBean, RMI, Swing, database, XML-RPC, encryption, Java, sockets, C#, C/C++ Show less

San Jose, Ca

Participated in architecting and developing Cloudbreak, a storage operating system that provides a centralized and common approach for storage network management (SNM) and storage resource management (SRM). Primary contribution were in the area of system logging, event management, switch management (Brocade and QLogic), zoning, foreign device management, SNMP device discovery, policy management, user management, and API. Set the foundation for the CLI and for the Applet GUI.

Mountain View, Ca

Participated in designing and developing a Web Base Application system to assist in the staffing of personnel. The Career Connection portal allowed seekers to search for available jobs, enter their profile, and upload their resume to an from an Oracle database. The staffing Connection is the heart of the system and guides the recruitment process. This allows the recruiter to search for candidates, assign them to a job, scheduling interviews, obtaining feedback, and the entire process associated… Show more Participated in designing and developing a Web Base Application system to assist in the staffing of personnel. The Career Connection portal allowed seekers to search for available jobs, enter their profile, and upload their resume to an from an Oracle database. The staffing Connection is the heart of the system and guides the recruitment process. This allows the recruiter to search for candidates, assign them to a job, scheduling interviews, obtaining feedback, and the entire process associated with filling a job. This system was deployed using IBM Apache web server, IBM’s WebSphere application server, and an Oracle database. It was developed utilizing Visual Age. The presentation layer consisted of JSPs and Servlets. The middle tier (business logic layer) is comprised of JDBC classes, Session EJBs, and Entity EJBs. The backend was an Oracle database. Show less

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Lead an effort to develop an extensible and customizable Graphical Client Viewer, which handles both raster and vector data. The Client Viewer is to support multiple graphical file formats and accept streaming data. It will be the primary viewer for both Micrografx’s stand-alone products as well as the Active Graphics Server. The Client Viewer supports database connectivity, user-interactivity, and multimedia animation. It has an open object model allowing companies to extend and customize the… Show more Lead an effort to develop an extensible and customizable Graphical Client Viewer, which handles both raster and vector data. The Client Viewer is to support multiple graphical file formats and accept streaming data. It will be the primary viewer for both Micrografx’s stand-alone products as well as the Active Graphics Server. The Client Viewer supports database connectivity, user-interactivity, and multimedia animation. It has an open object model allowing companies to extend and customize the functionality of the viewer.Coordinated an effort to integrate WebKnight technology into Micrografx product lines. This involved devising a mechanism and specification that could easily be implemented by all of Micrografx applications, which requires a feature to output an interactive Applet on the Internet. Implemented the system with an existing Micrografx product Designer for Applet generation. Design a customizable Viewer to accommodate varying product lines. Companies such as Ford, Gerver, and Nortel had successfully deployed the web viewing technology. Show less

San Jose, Ca

Co-founder of WebKnight Inc. Chief designer and developer of Instant Coffee, a Java multimedia web authoring tool. Represented the company and product at trade shows. The product won several awards, from Internet Showcase 97 and the “Coolest Tool” from Windows NT Intranet Solution. Architect and implemented the complete framework of the application and all support programs. Defining application interface allowing other developers to collaborate effectively. Created graphical components… Show more Co-founder of WebKnight Inc. Chief designer and developer of Instant Coffee, a Java multimedia web authoring tool. Represented the company and product at trade shows. The product won several awards, from Internet Showcase 97 and the “Coolest Tool” from Windows NT Intranet Solution. Architect and implemented the complete framework of the application and all support programs. Defining application interface allowing other developers to collaborate effectively. Created graphical components (buttons, tab-sheets, etc.) used for building the application’s GUI. Developed layout controls for object placement. Coded Instant Coffee’s plug-in architecture and plug-in modules. Designed and wrote Instant Coffee’s object interaction model. Implemented bridging code between the native Windows environment and application. Show less

Bubble Jet Driver

Developed software to receive telemetry information from lab equipment from the space shuttle.

Bachelor Of Science, Aerospace

Bs, Aerospace