Kyle Strem

Experience

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  Geek Squad

  Oct 2016 - Jan 2017

  Geek Squad Consultation Agent
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  Coding Dojo

  Jan 2017 - Apr 2017

  Resident Developer

  ▶ SNAPSHOT:Building my skills as a game changing software engineer. Learning topics and technologies ranging from Python, node.JS, and Swift to Angular and React

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  Elated

  Jul 2017 - Feb 2018

  Software Engineer

  ▶ SNAPSHOT:iOS and Backend Engineer, building out a revolutionary and groundbreaking approach to online dating.

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  California State University, Northridge

  Aug 2017 - May 2021

  Undergraduate

  ▶ SNAPSHOT:Undergraduate student focusing on software engineering and data science. ▶ DELIVERED RESULTS:● Senior Design Project – Sybil – End-to-end security solution using Raspberry Pi attached to a camera to provide facial recognition visitors and categorizing as familiar or suspicious.o Technology Used: Raspberry Pi, Open CV, Python, Tensor Flow, AWS, Ubuntu Instance, NGINX, React Native, Node.js, MongoDB● Software Engineering Project - Gang Gang Chat App Gang – As part of team project, created social media-like application similar to Discord or Slack; responsible for all back-end application work.o Technology Used: Python Flask Framework, Websockets, AWS, Ubuntu, NGINX, MySQL Show less

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  City of Santa Clarita

  Feb 2018 - May 2021

  • Recreation Leader 3

    Feb 2019 - May 2021

  • Recreation Leader 2

    Feb 2018 - Feb 2019
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  NSF Data Science Program at CSUN

  Jun 2020 - May 2021

  ▶ SNAPSHOT:Extension program to NSF Data Science Program bootcamp working to sharpen and improve skills learned.▶ DELIVERED RESULTS:● Project - Sentiment Analysis – Under guidance of faculty advisor, processing phone usage data provided by CSUN Psychology Department from students using application to track phone usage. o Seeking to gauge if the way a person carries their cellphone is indicative of boredom or usage.o Focused on establishing sentiment score on emotional state based on phone actions. Show less ▶ SNAPSHOT:Successfully completed data science bootcamp taught by professors at CSUN. Learned data science fundamentals, machine learning applications, machine learning models – (shallow learning) Python libraries, logistic classifiers, support vector machine, and K nearest neighbors; and (deep learning) tensor flow. ▶ DELIVERED RESULTS:● Capstone Project – Modeling COVID-19 Projections – Predicted COVID-19 numbers into the future and established danger score for each country with likelihood of acquiring COVID versus another country.o Technology Used: Python Notebooks, Scikit Learn, Tensor Flow, Pytorch Show less

  • Student Researcher

    Aug 2020 - May 2021

  • Summer Student

    Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
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  Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific

  Aug 2021 - now

  Computer Scientist

  • Leading optimization efforts on an unmanned surface vehicle (Python/C++/ROS)• Re-architecting the software architecture of control systems and creating paths for automated testing, reducing development time by 30% along with a 20% improvement in overall system performance.• Increasing vehicle health and performance clarity with log processing and data analytics.• Led optimization efforts on a wireless communications physics and routing simulation (C++).• Identified key performance bottlenecks and introduced concurrency to improve the efficiency of physics calculations by 50x, resulting in a 40% reduction in simulation runtimes. Show less