Danny Truong

Application Engineer at Purolator

Integrated AWS Canary, CloudWatch, and SNS within Terraform infrastructure to enhance real-time detection of production endpoint failures, leading to a 15% decrease in downtime incidents. Optimized and refactored Python codebase, achieving a 5,000% performance improvement, led migration to AWS Lambda, and authored system design documentation and POCs to support production deployment and migration. Redesigned a SQL-based data pipeline, delivering an over 300% efficiency improvement by significantly reducing data size, leading to improved performance on PowerBI dashboard.

Agile Engineer at TribalScale

Followed Figma designs to create React components used on Contentful to allow for low/no-code website building. Performed and led automation end-to-end testing using Cypress and BrowserStack, reducing manual testing by over 25%. Performed API testing through Postman and Cypress to completely automate product cycle.

Software Developer Intern at JANA Corp.

Engineered reusable React components that enhanced user interface consistency, reducing load times by 30% and streamlining maintenance efforts across the client-facing web application. Coordinated with cross-functional development teams to translate Adobe XD prototypes into fully functional React webpages. Led automation of cross-browser functional and regression testing using Selenium and Java to reduce manual retesting by over 13%.

Software Developer at Pelmorex Corp.

Learned TypeScript to improve algorithm for back-end API leading to 10% improvement in data aggregation and augmentation time. Created Python scripts to update SQLite data stored on S3, eliminating manual entry work entirely. Utilized AWS S3 and Lambda to automate collection and storing of aggregated forecast and spreadsheet data. Integrated and managed Jenkins pipelines to automate test suites, increasing productivity.

Algorithmic Trading Bot at Self-Directed Project

Developed a profitable algorithmic trading strategy implemented in C# on NinjaTrader that beat out the S&P. Worked alongside contracted financial advisor to develop and design effective trading strategy. Learned C# and the event-driven architecture of NinjaTrader.

Chat App at Self-Directed Project

Developed a real-time chat application using the MERN stack to provide seamless user interaction. Implemented WebSocket protocol with Socket.IO to enable real-time communication and instant message delivery. Containerized the chat application using Docker, enabling consistent development environments and simplified deployment.