# Duke Tran > SDE I @ AWS Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/duketran I’m a William & Mary alum (Class of ‘23) with a Bachelor’s in CS with a minor in finance. If you’d like to connect with me to discuss more, please feel free to send me a message or reach out via email (duketran2001@gmail.com). ## Work Experience ### Software Development Engineer I @ Amazon Web Services (AWS) Jan 2023 – Present | New York, New York, United States ### Full Stack Software Engineer @ Arch Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States - Maintained and optimized code relating to complex ownership of investments, an integral part of the platform offering. Wrote unit tests for a particular code path achieving 90%+ coverage. - Spearheaded projects to implement features for the Addepar integration used by at least 25% of existing clients. Optimized a critical SQL query to halve average runtime, down to around 2.3 seconds from 4. - Designed and implemented a full project to enable exporting of financial commitments to Addepar, a feature specifically requested by a number of core clients. - Engineered a historical financials selector component, from the backend to the UI, that enabled clients to view their investments’ financials through a historical period of time, used daily by hundreds of users. ### CS 301/303 Consultant @ William & Mary Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Williamsburg, VA Helped CS 301 (Software Development) and CS 303 (Algorithms) students with their coding assignments. Supplied debugging tips, programming and conceptual guidance relating to algorithms, and coding techniques relating to the Java and C++ programming languages. ### Private Online Tutor @ Acakid Tutoring Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 Educated students in grades K-12 in various subjects including computer science, math, biology, chemistry, and physics. ### FSO Technology Consulting Intern @ EY Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | McLean, Virginia, United States - Primarily involved in the Data and Workflow workstreams on the Citigroup Intraday Liquidity Management Target State engagement. - Learned about Treasury and liquidity management processes. - Compiled and analyzed data reconciliation of product processors and compared book to ledger transactions. - Created and formatted presentations to summarize analysis and findings. ### Chief Financial Officer @ Agency 1693 Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Williamsburg, Virginia, United States Managed and oversaw the agency’s revenue, project investments, and wages. Documented and handled invoices and expenses. ### Marketing Associate @ Agency 1693 Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Williamsburg, Virginia, United States Worked on a marketing team for various clients looking to grow and expand their businesses. Designed videos, logos, and other adverts to promote branding of companies. ### Technology Program Coordinator @ Alan B. Miller Entrepreneurship Center Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Williamsburg, Virginia, United States Created applications and maintained software to propel the missions of the EC. Utilized technological tools to streamline backend development and enable smooth and seamless user experiences. ### Quantitative Finance Externship @ Credit Suisse Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 Met with and discussed with industry professionals working in quantitative finance and algorithmic trading about their professions and various aspects of their daily work. Learned more about particular aspects relating to these areas, including concepts such as VWAP and algorithm customization on a per-client basis. ### Research and Software Development Intern @ National Science Foundation (NSF) Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Fairfax, Virginia, United States - Learned to work with A-Frame, Unity 3D, and C# for VR/AR development. - Developed evasive algorithms paired with the SHARKS (Secure, Heterogeneous, Autonomous, and Rotational Knowledge for Swarms) Protocol to defend a UAV swarm against adversarial UAVs. - Simulated UAV swarms in VR and Unity 3D to gather data on the effectiveness of evasive maneuvers. ### Mobile App Development Intern @ Whispearrings Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 - Learned to work with Swift, XCode, and SQLite for iOS development. - Developed a fully-fledged iOS app with playback and user-recording capabilities. - Created and maintained a loading and databasing system to store sounds (whispers). ### Math Tutor @ Mathnasium - The Math Learning Center Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Fairfax, VA Taught kids about mathematical concepts and helped them sharpen their logical reasoning and computational skills. ### Laboratory Intern @ Georgetown University School of Medicine Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Washington D.C. Metro Area Worked at Georgetown University as an intern under the supervision of Dr. Niaz Sahibzada. Studied the function of GABAergic interneurons in the regulation of the brain-gut axis. Learned more about electrophysiology and neurobiology. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science William & Mary Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 ### Advanced Studies Diploma Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/duketran - GitHub: https://github.com/dtran421 - Website: https://duketran.tech --- Source: https://flows.cv/duketran JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/duketran/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-23