About Me
This is me:
BIO
Hello, I am Kyle and I am a Senior at the University of Washington Bothell Campus. I was born in Hà Nội, Việt Nam to an American father and Vietnamese mother. I have grown up in a diverse range of places from Bangkok, Thailand, to Wrentham, Massachussetts, to Hà Nội and Hồ Chí Minh City (Sài Gòn), Việt Nam.
I originally started my education at the Seattle campus as an Applied Physics major. As a kid I was the type to save knick-knacks, from paperclips to broken toys so that I could take them apart and tinker with them. I was also the type that was naturally drawn to computers so in a tug-of-war compromise I set down the Applied Physics path with a focus on Electronics and Quantum Mechanics. However, late into Junior year I transferred to the Bothell campus to pursue their Computer Science and Software Engineering (CSSE) degree as software engineering aligned more with the types of problems that I wanted to solve.
Experience
Software Engineering Intern
mgm technology partners GmbH
Jun 2019 - Sep 2019
Đà Nẵng, Việt Nam
Designed, presented and got buy off from Project Manager, Lead Developer and rest of team of a new design for an existing NodeJS based WebApp.
Under guidance of the Lead Developer and Project Manager implemented the UX of the new design including changes to the menu, header and general style, layout and functionality of the app. Drove feature(s) through SDLC (software development life cycle), from design planning, implementation, testing to being released to production, ensuring a bug free and smooth user experience for the end user.
Participated in daily SCRUM meetings and gained experience and familiarity in the SCRUM, SAFe and Agile processes.
Strengthened knowledge of Javascript, CSS and NodeJS related templates, frameworks and libraries such as Pug/Jade, Express, Underscore, JQuery and Bootstrap. Increased experience with GitLab and Microsoft’s Azure Cloud Computing Service for source control and product development.
Worked with unfamiliar code to understand the underlying functions of the WebApp and JSON and XML data to be able to expand and modify old design and functionality of the WebApp.
Laid the groundwork for future updates to include an API that was under production during the internship, expanding the usability of the WebApp through lazy loading.
Software Engineering Intern
FPT-USA Corporation
Jun 2018 - Sep 2018
Tukwila, Washington
Designed, presented and got buy off from Project Manager, Lead Developer and rest of team of a new design for an existing NodeJS based WebApp.
Under guidance of the Lead Developer and Project Manager implemented the UX of the new design including changes to the menu, header and general style, layout and functionality of the app. Drove feature(s) through SDLC (software development life cycle), from design planning, implementation, testing to being released to production, ensuring a bug free and smooth user experience for the end user.
Participated in daily SCRUM meetings and gained experience and familiarity in the SCRUM, SAFe and Agile processes.
Strengthened knowledge of Javascript, CSS and NodeJS related templates, frameworks and libraries such as Pug/Jade, Express, Underscore, JQuery and Bootstrap. Increased experience with GitLab and Microsoft’s Azure Cloud Computing Service for source control and product development. Worked with unfamiliar code to understand the underlying functions of the WebApp to be able to expand and modify old design and functionality of the WebApp.
Laid the groundwork for future updates to include an API that was under production during the internship, expanding the usability of the WebApp through lazy loading.
Live Tech Support Admin
FACEIT Ltd
Jun 2017 - Oct 2017
Hồ Chí Minh City, Việt Nam - Seattle, Washington
Volunteered to provide technical support to the customers on the active gaming servers provided by the Faceit platform and learned patience in customer support and how best to help the customer even if they proved uncooperative.
Intern
Tech in Asia Việt Nam
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
Hồ Chí Minh City, Việt Nam
Shadowed senior writer and participated in meetings with various executives from tech companies in Vietnam and large-scale discussions with various groups from seed funds to universities and business leaders involved with tech startups in Vietnam. Built connections and learned about the current state and potential future of tech startups in Vietnam at the time.
Practiced and honed research skills to populate a database created by Tech in Asia that contains information about tech startups from the Middle East and Asia to better inform and link investors with said startups.