Bryan Tran

Hi! I'm Bryan, a CS student at GTech and a Developer for IBM.

Most of my time goes into software, playing video games, and going to the gym.

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Full-stack developer & problem solver.

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Application Developer

IBM

June 2023 - Present

Baton Rouge, LA

Used Amazon Bedrock (Claude) to cross-reference legacy XGen logic against DMN/DRL rules — engineering prompts and debugging AI-generated Java tests, then leading KT sessions to standardize the resulting validation framework across the team
Reverse-engineered legacy VBA business logic and multi-condition eligibility rules from a Microsoft Access application, translating them into a layered Angular + Spring Boot + Oracle architecture while preserving existing behavior
Designed a REST API preview/validation layer (Spring Boot, JDBC Template) surfacing eligible-record and key-violation counts ahead of batch database operations, replacing an opaque legacy Access confirmation flow
Modernized a DFAS enterprise payroll application with an Angular + TypeScript frontend and REST API integration, improving data-retrieval speed over the legacy Access workflow
Developed backend services in Java with custom Mockito unit tests, achieving 90% code coverage on JaCoCo reports
Debugged full-stack integration issues across the request path — HTTP 401 auth failures, HTTP 200 responses that failed JSON parsing, and TypeScript/API contract mismatches between Spring Boot DTOs and Angular interfaces

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AI Safety Research Fellow

Algoverse

July 2026 - Aug 2026

Remote

Researching how vision-language models (VLMs) lose information when interpreting images, and tracing where that lost information propagates within the model

Student Web Developer

LSU Information Technology Services

May 2022 - May 2023

Baton Rouge, LA

Diagnosed and resolved production failures for LSU's enterprise application (GROK) through log analysis, system walkthroughs, and proactive error tracing
Hardened application security by migrating legacy Java applications to Spring Boot, updating Maven builds, and reconfiguring CSRF tokens to resolve deployment blockers
Optimized accessibility and responsive design layouts across university applications using HTML, CSS, and modern web dependencies