Andrew Tran
Co-founder at Alkera AI
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Tran is a co-founder and software engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building high-performance systems, distributed ML infrastructure, and applied machine learning. Trained at Yale (BS/MS CS, class of ’26), he blends research and production: at the Gerstein Lab he designed Transformer-based multi-modal biomedical models and presented at ISMB 2024, while internships at Hudson River Trading and Ramp focused on low-latency filesystems and product-scale card delivery systems. He contributes to open-source projects (e.g., backend improvements to the widely used Skript Spigot plugin), demonstrating attention to concurrency and performant async design. Comfortable across Python data science stacks, PyTorch Geometric, and cloud-native tooling, he tends to surface practical metric improvements that better align automatic evaluation with human judgment. Based in the NYC metro area, he pairs startup grit with research rigor to move ML ideas into reliable deployments.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Yale UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Robbinsdale Cooper Senior High School
English, Spanish
Github Skills (14)
asynchronous10
command-line-tool10
command-line-interface10
javas10
scripting-language10
bukkit10
spigot10
async10
java10
command-line10
gradlew9
gradle9
minecraft9
database-design8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
SkriptLang/Skript
Jul 2016 - Feb 2018
Skript is a Spigot plugin which allows server admins to customize their server easily, but without the hassle of programming a plugin or asking/paying someone to program a plugin for them.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:53 commits, 21 PRs, 118 comments in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the Skript plugin by implementing new features and refactoring existing code. They added functionality for alphabetically sorting strings and introduced an asynchronous effect class. The user also modified the existing delay effect and incorporated BukkitScheduler for asynchronous tasks, indicating a focus on improving performance and concurrency. Furthermore, they added the ability to specify table names for database variable storage and created command-related expressions such as cooldowns, elapsed and remaining time, and bypass permissions.
minecraftskriptgradlebukkit-pluginbukkit
FRC-4277/2021InfiniteRecharge
Jan 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:172 commits, 8 PRs, 135 pushes in 10 months
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