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Peter Tran

CS @ UT Arlington
2023–2027
My foundations
C, Java, Python
Side quest enthusiast

Experience

An immense thank you to all the incredible companies for giving me the opportunity to grow and learn from so many great individuals. I'm always looking for more opportunities!

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JP Morgan Chase

Incoming Software Engineer Intern Summer 2026
  • Part of the SEP Program
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UR2PhD Program

Apprenticeship Summer 2026
  • Selected apart of the Summer 2026 cohort (1 of 2 under Dr. Shomer apart of DIAL Labs at UT Arlington).
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AWS Student Builder Campus Leader

Campus Leader March 2026 – Present
  • Representing AWS on campus, organizing cloud workshops and connecting students with AWS resources and programs.
AWS
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Beautisol

Software Development Intern May 2025 – May 2026
  • Shipped a production Azure IoT Hub OTA pipeline with DPS auto-provisioning and HMAC-SHA256 device key derivation, cutting device onboarding to under 30 seconds and enabling fail-safe rollback on corrupt firmware
  • Built Node.js suite scripts to load-test validating enrollment flows, message routing, and downstream processing.
  • Implemented resilient MQTT device twin integration, including desired-property parsing & reported-property acknowledgments, token-refresh handling, and automatic reconnect logic for stable control in production.
  • Automated web application deployment via GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline that builds the React frontend, bundles it into the .NET publish artifact, and deploys to Azure App Service.
Azure C/C++ Espressif React .NET Docker
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MISD Technology

IT Intern Sept 2022 – May 2023
  • Managing district-wide hardware inventory, repairs, and IT support tasks for over 35000 students and 48 schools.
  • Aided in the completion of 5 projects over a span of 2 months using technical skills regarding Active Directory and Group Policy, laptop hardware, software repair, and OS management.
  • Collaborated with coworkers as a team to increase efficiency by 40% and finish projects ahead of deadlines.
SQL Spreadsheets

Projects

My archive of projects I've finished working on, currently working on building 3–4 new ones.

Serapis

Modular patient management backend system

  • This project consists of services such as auth, analytics, api gateway, and communication including REST, gRPC, and Kafka deployed in Docker containers for each service.
  • The infrastructure is managed with AWS CDK and is simulated being ran on localStack for services such as ECS, RDS, etc.
  • Aim of this project was to learn more about SpringBoot and apply practices such as dependency injection, OOP, DTOs, MVC Architecture.
SpringBoot Kafka AWS PostgreSQL Docker gRPC

Tachyon

Personalized vehicle financing through an AI interview platform

  • Tachyon is an interactive car financing assistant built during hackTX, that takes in a users input information into a personalized 3D constellation of financing options.
  • It utilizes a 3-agent orchestration system with Gemini ADK to create a conversational interview to make complex loan and lease trade‑offs visual, intuitive, and fun to explore.
TypeScript FastAPI Gemini ADK Three.js SQLite

Plant-Pal

IoT plant monitoring system leveraging gpt-oss-20b

  • Built for OpenAI's Open Model Hackathon, we were inspired for this project tying the nostalgia of Tamagotchis to modern day AI. The project takes sensor data such as soil moisture and humidity,
  • which is then processed by the model hosted on modal which after processed updates the Tamagotchi on the users device and sends a notification via discord.
C++ FastAPI gpt-oss-20b PyTorch Modal

Stratify

Real-time market stock trading simulator app

  • Goal of this project was to get a deeper understanding and experience using JavaScript & MERN stack and things such as JWT auth, rate limiting, etc.
  • Full stack web application with user portal and the ability to trade and retrieve live market data using Finnhub Websockets.
MongoDB Express React Node.js Render

SASE Job Tracker

Discord bot that would alert and send out internship and newgrad opportunities

  • Made this project in hopes of helping the engineering majors apart of SASE find more opportunities especially those in fields outside of CS and Software.
  • The project takes postings from github repos, Simplify, and Jobright.
Discord API Docker MongoDB Python

Hydrate Alert

Data prediction & analysis platform for hydrate formation in gas pipelines

  • This application includes features such as Google Auth, and the implementation of a Random Forest Regressor Machine Learning Model to process
  • the data and its features. Data is provided as CSV files and is normalized using pandas and numpy, graphs displayed with matplotlib & streamlit.
Streamlit scikit-learn pandas SQLite Matplotlib OAuth

SASE-Gauge

Personal ratings app similar to Yelp/Beli

  • Built apart of SASE RIG (Research Interest Group) alongside 9 other teammates to deliver a web app capable of rating all things.
HTML CSS JavaScript Flask SQLAlchemy

Mav Shell

Basic shell project to learn basics and fundamentals

  • A simple Unix shell implementation written in C, built to deepen understanding of operating systems and programming fundamentals.
C

Volunteer

Some of my roles and opportunities in organizations and different projects!

Adobe logo Adobe
Campus Ambassador Aug 2025 – Present
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Student Builder Group Leader Nov 2025 – Present
UTA SASE logo UTA SASE
Event Coordinator Fall 2025
UTA SASE logo UTA SASE
Treasurer Spring 2026
ACM logo ACM
Outreach Officer Jan 2026 – May 2026
Club Volleyball logo Club Volleyball
Media Team Men's & Women's

Coursework

Relevant courses taken throughout my CS degree at UT Arlington.

Foundations

CSE 1310

Intro to Computers & Programming

Fall 2023

CSE 1320

Intermediate Programming

Spring 2024

CSE 2315

Discrete Structures

Spring 2024

CSE 1325

Object Oriented Programming

Fall 2024

CSE 3318

Algorithms & Data Structures

Fall 2024

Systems

CSE 2312

Computer Organization & Assembly

Fall 2024

CSE 3320

Operating Systems

Spring 2025

CSE 4344

Computer Network Organization

Spring 2026

Software & Data

CSE 3310

Fundamentals of Software Engineering

Spring 2025

CSE 3330

Databases

Fall 2025

CSE 4322

Software Project Management

Fall 2025

AI/ML & Theory

CSE 4305

Theoretical CS (Automata & Formal Languages)

Fall 2025

CSE 4308

Artificial Intelligence

Fall 2025

CSE 4310

Computer Vision

Spring 2026

CSE 4309

Fundamentals of Machine Learning

Spring 2026

CSE 4303

Computer Graphics

Spring 2026

Certificates

Intermediate Cybersecurity

CodePath

Security Incident ResponseSplunkWiresharkNetwork Security
Issued Aug 2025

JPMorgan Chase & Co. Software Engineering Job Simulation

Forage

Project SetupKafka IntegrationH2 IntegrationREST APIs
Issued June 2025

Entrepreneurship and Small Business

Certiport - A Pearson VUE Business

Issued May 2022

Microsoft Office Specialist: Word 2016

Microsoft

Issued Dec 2021

Skills

Languages

C C++ Python Java JavaScript TypeScript NoSQL (MongoDB) SQL (SQLite3, PostgreSQL)

Frameworks

SpringBoot FastAPI React.js Tailwind CSS Flask Express.js Next.js

Tools & Concepts

Git Docker Azure AWS Linux HTTP REST APIs Kafka GitHub Actions

Libraries

PyTorch TensorFlow OpenCV scikit-learn NumPy pandas