Kyle Reyes

About Me

I'm a student at Brown University concentrating in Mathematics-Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, and I'm primarily interested in software development & quantitative finance roles.

Last summer, I'm working at Twitter as an Engineering Intern. Scroll through my website to find out more about me!

Experience

Twitter

New York, NY

Engineering Intern

Jun - Aug 2022

Refined search results to always suggest the account whose username matches the exact search query
Improved customer experience by implementing tickets and various requests using Scala, Java, and React

Amazon

Seattle, WA (Remote)

Software Development Engineer Intern

May - Aug 2021

Migrated a batch job used for the Amazon Prime Rewards Visa Card to an AWS infrastructure (CDK, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, Fargate, S3, VPC, SecretsManager)
Lowered cost, enhanced security, resolved potential conflicts with other batch jobs using Java and TypeScript

Brown University

Providence, RI (Remote)

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

Aug 2020 - Apr 2021

Hosted weekly TA hours & lab sessions, answered student’s questions online, and provided feedback during grading
CSCI 0300 - Fundamentals of Computer Systems (Spring 2021)

Taught in C, C++, x86-64
Created new projects and modified and tested existing projects for the 2nd offering of the course

CSCI 0190 - Accelerated Intro to Computer Science (Fall 2020)

Taught in Pyret

Soham Sankaran

Remote

Software Engineer Intern

Jun - Aug 2021

Built Moodplex, a web app that produces social media post rankings based on comparisons made by its users, along with two other interns under Mr. Sankaran’s supervision
Acquired trending posts from Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, Imgur, and Hacker News APIs using Go that was then stored in a PostgreSQL database
Managed frontend using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Projects

IP (Spec) + TCP (Spec)

Designed an abstract link layer using UDP and implemented the IPv4 protocol in a group of two using Go
Supported routing through a modified version of RIPv2 with split horizon, poison reverse, and triggered updates
Built a TCP implementation with a state machine, sliding window protocol, and zero window probing

Dropbox (Spec)

Designed a stateless client for a secure file sharing and storage system in a group of two using Python
Utilized provided symmetric & asymmetric encryption schemes, digital signatures, hash functions, HMACs, and random byte generators to meet security requirements

Hi, My Name is ... (GitHub)

Created a unique name generator using an RNN in a group of four for Hack@Brown 2021
Generated names based on a given prefix, creativity level, and a similar sounding name
Used HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, Flask

DeepKart64 (GitHub)

Created a deep reinforcement learning agent that plays Mario Kart 64 in a group of four for Deep Learning final project
Built TensorFlow model using convolution, A2C method, and preexisting OpenAI gym wrapper
Used Docker, TensorFlow, Google Cloud Platform

ParselTongue (GitHub)

Built a smart PageRank-based research paper parsing tool for Intro to Software Engineering final group project
Given a few keywords, finds relevant paragraphs across multiple research papers (and their respective locations)
Developed heuristics to filter through parsed text using Java
Used Apache PDFBox to acquire text from the PDFs, MongoDB for the database, and Spark and Freemarker for the frontend and webserver

KYLE REYES

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