Peter Tran

I like building and solving problems from AI, to distributed systems, and even to one very opinionated houseplant.

CS and minor in Mathematics at UT Arlington, class of '27. This summer I'm a software engineering intern at JPMorgan Chase and doing undergrad research in DIAL Labs.

yes, the plant has a Discord account, mostly to tell me he's thirsty

A few things I've made

  1. Plant-Pal

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    A Tamagotchi for my houseplant. An ESP32 reads soil moisture and humidity, gpt-oss-20b decides how the plant feels, and Discord tells me when it's mad at me.1 Built for OpenAI's Open Model Hackathon.

    CodeDevpost

  2. Serapis

    A patient-management backend I built to properly learn Spring Boot — auth, analytics, gRPC, Kafka — each service in its own container, with the AWS side simulated on LocalStack via CDK.

  3. Tachyon

    Built at HackTX: a three-agent interview that turns car financing trade-offs into a 3D constellation you can explore, instead of a spreadsheet you dread.

    Devpost

  4. Stratify

    A real-time paper-trading app on the MERN stack — live market data over Finnhub websockets, JWT auth, rate limiting, the whole checklist.

    Live

More in the archive — three or four new ones in progress.

Where I've worked

  1. Summer 2026

    JPMorgan Chase

    Incoming software engineering intern through the SEP program.

  2. Summer 2026

    DIAL Labs, UT Arlington

    Research apprenticeship under Dr. Shomer through the UR2PhD program — one of two undergrads picked for the cohort.

  3. 2025 – 2026

    Beautisol

    Shipped the over-the-air firmware pipeline for their IoT devices on Azure. Onboarding a device went from a manual chore to under thirty seconds, with fail-safe rollback when firmware goes bad. Also built the load tests and the CI/CD that ships the web app.

  4. 2022 – 2023

    MISD Technology

    IT intern for my school district — 48 schools, 35,000 students, and a great many laptops.

Around campus

When I'm not shipping code I'm usually out leading AWS Student Builders workshops, working on SASE Research, Adobe Ambassadoring, or doing my own thing like running or photography which you can find some of those in the gallery.

My most used tools recently: Python, TypeScript, FastAPI, React, Docker, AWS & Azure, NodeJS.

  1. 1he is often mad at me ↩