Kurry Tran is an Android Engineer with 14 years of software experience and a strong background in electronic equity trading, having built and maintained trading systems and generated alpha across equities, FX, fixed income, and options. He blends production-grade engineering (Android, AWS, front-office systems) with quantitative trading instincts, and holds multiple software patents that reflect a focus on robust, high-performance systems. His recent open-source work includes reliability and modularity improvements to a widely used image-fetching library (PINRemoteImage), showing attention to error handling and extensibility across mobile platforms. Comfortable moving between low-latency trading code and consumer-facing mobile development, Kurry brings a pragmatic, security- and reliability-minded approach to complex distributed systems.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Economics and Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts - BA Economics and Mathematics at Wesleyan University
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering at Columbia University
A thread safe, performant, feature rich image fetcher
Role in this project:
iOS Mobile Developer
Contributions:6 commits, 7 PRs, 16 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Kurry primarily focused on improving the reliability and robustness of the image fetching library. They addressed critical issues such as handling nil URLs and 404 responses, ensuring proper error handling. The user also added support for custom HTTP request headers, demonstrating a commitment to feature enhancements and customization. Additionally, they made the FLAnimatedImage dependency optional, demonstrating skills in code modularization.
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