Kinh Tran

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Professional Experience
Head of IT Department Literacy And Mathematics Academy Aug 2025 - Present
  • Developed internal and client-facing web applications targetting staff and parents
  • Prioritized a stack that maximizes ease of handover and security while minimizing cost
  • Set up and maintained web servers and network ad blockers
Coding Teacher Literacy And Mathematics Academy Aug 2024 - Present
  • Taught coding, typing, and basic computer literacy to 50+ elementary school students
  • Developed custom teaching material and internal tools to foster a healthy learning environment
  • Presented game development and cybersecurity concepts in an interactive and accessible way
Security Data Scientist Arctic Wolf Apr 2024 - Aug 2024
  • Investigated features for detecting malicious websites using classical machine learning models
  • Proposed features using insights from academia, IBM, Open Threat Exchange, and more
  • Published a scholarly article about the investigation on Arxiv
Teaching Assistant University of Guelph Jan 2024 - Apr 2024
  • Remotely answered student questions on Courselink
  • Graded the assignments for 120+ students providing detailed feedback on their submissions
Backend Developer Ethos.city Mar 2023 - Sep 2023
  • Remotely collaborated with a team in a fast-paced startup
  • Implemented scalable backend social media solutions using Firebase cloud functions
  • Wrote and maintained several suites of automated unit and integration tests using Jest
Teaching Assistant University of Guelph Sep 2019 - Dec 2019
  • Co-instructed 2-hour lab sessions 3 times per week with 30+ students per session
  • Instructed in-person, weekly help sessions in addition to lab sessions
  • Aided with the grading of assignments and exams for 350+ students
Full Stack Developer Camis Inc May 2019 - Aug 2019
  • Developed new features for the reservation workflow in C#, TypeScript and TransactSQL
  • Resolved release impediments and other various bugs in production
  • Refactored Angular components to increase maintainability
  • Contributed to the increase of total unit test coverage by 170% with NUnit and Jest
Frontend Developer Camis Inc May 2018 - Aug 2018
  • Engineered an analytics tracking library in TypeScript to log key user-engagement metrics
  • Debugged web and Angular specific issues
  • Lead negotiations with companies specializing in end-to-end automated testing frameworks
DevOps Specialist Camis Inc Jan 2018 - Apr 2018
  • Created a dashboard in TypeScript using Node.js to control terminals across North America
  • Monitored for and resolved obstructions in production pipeline
  • Refactored 100+ deployment scripts in PowerShell to adapt to rapid changes to the pipeline
Projects
Audiobook GPT Personal Present
  • Integrated Fish Audio S2 with Blender to produce and edit narrations of story text
  • Developed pipelines in Azure to automate the uploading of audio to YouTube
Reading Log Calendar Literacy And Mathematics Academy May 2026
  • Developed a web app for parents to track child's progress using HTMX, Flask, and Google Sheets
  • Added OpenID Connect for SSO logins and WebAuthn with SQLite for parental approval
Raspberry Pi Servers Literacy And Mathematics Academy Sep 2025
  • Set up network-wide ad blocker using Pi-hole
  • Hosted web apps on the Internet using Caddy, Gunicorn, and a custom DDNS systemd service
Self-hosted DeepSeek-R1 Personal Jan 2025
  • Set up a personal AI chatbot using Ollama, Deepseek-R1, Docker, and Open WebUI
  • Hosted personal AI chatbot on the Internet using Caddy
Malicious Website Detection AI Arctic Wolf Aug 2024
  • Improved existing Jupyter Notebooks with additional features and classifications in Sagemaker
  • Engineered data pipelines in AWS for collecting and aggregating 400K data points into S3 buckets
  • Ranked feature importance for classifying malicious websites using SHAP
Pseudonymity Manager University of Guelph Dec 2023
  • Made a browser extension for creating and storing fake account profiles online in TypeScript
  • Integrated a password manager, an email masking service, a VPN, and a geolocation database
  • Presented a working prototype to a class of cybersecurity students and professionals
Education
Computer Science University of Guelph Sep 2023 - Aug 2024
Master of Cybersecurity and Threat Intelligence
Bachelors of Computing University of Guelph Sep 2014 - Apr 2020
Major in Computer Science (Co-op) (Honours with Distinction)
Double Minor in Mathematics and Statistics
Certifactions
Azure Solutions Architect Expert Microsoft Oct 2025
Credential ID: B6292ACBB3F47CAC
Azure Security Engineer Associate Microsoft Jul 2025
Credential ID: 5FC587FE0B86FCA9
Skills
Languages: Python, TypeScript, PowerShell, TransactSQL AI Tools: DeepSeek-R1, Open WebUI, Ollama
Cloud Tools: Amazon Sagemaker, Amazon S3, Azure, AWS
Development Tools: Git, Docker, Node.js, Firebase, Jira, Confluence
Libraries and Frameworks: Flask, HTMX, OpenID Connect, WebAuthn, SQLite, Jest, NUnit, Angular, SHAP
Agile Methodologies: Scrum, Kanban
Soft Skills: Written Communication, Verbal Communication, Adaptability, Collaboration