Kiet Tran
Software Engineer II - FMS at Collins Aerospace
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States
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Top SchoolKiet Tran is a Software Engineer II at Collins Aerospace with 10 years of engineering experience and a strong aerospace foundation from Iowa State University (MS, BS). He designs and validates Flight Management System software for regional and business jets (including Airbus A220 and Bombardier Global series), applying DO-178B/C processes and ARP4754 verification practices to ensure safety-critical behavior. Kiet couples rigorous root-cause analysis of customer-reported issues with pragmatic software testing—unit through system-level—to harden FMS performance in abnormal scenarios. His background spans computational materials and fluid dynamics research, flight-test integration using ROS/MAVLink, and teaching, reflecting a rare blend of hands-on avionics software development and multiscale simulation experience. Describing himself as a “pragmatic dreamer,” he brings both practical problem-solving and curiosity-driven research to complex aerospace software challenges.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Cumulative GPA: 3.72/4.0, Master of Science - MS, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Cumulative GPA: 3.72/4.0 at Iowa State UniversityUndergraduate Exchange Student, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Overall Average: 83.40%; Outstanding Achievement Award., Undergraduate Exchange Student, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Overall Average: 83.40%; Outstanding Achievement Award. at Swansea University
Vietnamese, English, German, Spanish, Arabic
Github Skills (81)
vim-plugin10
vim10
lua10
nvim10
cpp10
api10
tcl10
debugging10
text-editor10
vimspector10
java10
extensibility10
neovim10
pyright9
displays9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Maswor/PointCloud-Skeletonization
Oct 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:42 commits, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
Maswor/vimspector
Mar 2022 - Mar 2022
vimspector - A multi-language debugging system for Vim
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
vimmulti-languagekakounelldbvimspector
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