Steven Tran

About Me

Hello! My name is Steven and I enjoy creating things that make people laugh, have fun, or make their lives a little bit easier. My interest in software started back in 2013 when I decided to try and make a maze game on scratch - who knew that a couple of code blocks would be the reason why I am here today!

Fast-forward to today, I have had the privilege of being a Teaching Assistant at the University of Minnesota for almost 2 years, Interning at a huge corporation, and being a part of Hackathon. My main focus as of today is designing and maintaining new software for the RFID team at Target.

In my free time I enjoy boating out on the lake with my friends in the summer. In the winter I also like going out to the lake when it freezes over and ice skate or play hockey.

Experience

Software Engineer L4

Target

Description

June 2022 - Present

Software Development Engineer Intern

Amazon

Description

May 2021 - August 2021

Teaching Assistant

University of Minnesota - College of Science and Engineering

Description

January 2021 - May 2022

Customer Service

Bestbuy

Description

December 2019 - January 2021

Education

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

College of Science and Engineering - Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

GPA: 3.465

September 2019 - May 2022

Normandale Community College

Postsecondary Enrollment Option

GPA: 3.46

August 2018 - May 2019

Shakopee Senior High School

Highschool Degree

GPA: 3.59

September 2015 - June 2019

Skills

• Windows
• macOS/Unix
• Linux
• Cloud Desktops

• Brazil CLI
• Git
• Groovy
• Make

• Agile Development & Scrum
• Waterfall

Projects

Voting Simulation

Simple creation of feed forward and recurrent neural models in TensorFlow.

Battleship

A library for automatic supervised training of neural models.

Thermostat Display

A collection of various neural network models in TensorFlow.

RateMyRental

Intelligently draws a message with images.

Earthquake Visualizer

A custom game engine including dynamic lighting, terrain, and static and dynamic objects.

Portfolio Website

A simulation using AI techniques such as ray casting, spatial mapping, Bayesian filtering, pathfinding, etc.

Art Rendering

An application for content-aware image resizing.

Random Maze Simulator and Solver

An object recognition and tracking tool.

Sneaker Monitors

An audio analyzer and controller for an Arduino-driven LED strip.

Example: Awards & Certifications

• Google Analytics Certified Developer
• Mobile Web Specialist - Google Certification
• 1 ^st Place - University of Colorado Boulder - Emerging Tech Competition 2009
• 1 ^st Place - University of Colorado Boulder - Adobe Creative Jam 2008 (UI Design Category)
• 2 ^nd Place - University of Colorado Boulder - Emerging Tech Competition 2008
• 1 ^st Place - James Buchanan High School - Hackathon 2006
• 3 ^rd Place - James Buchanan High School - Hackathon 2005