Truman Chan

Hey, I'm Truman. I'm a CS/Management double-degree student at York University and Schulich School of Business, based in Toronto and graduating in April 2028.

I recently wrapped up an internship at Kepler Communications, where I built database migration tooling and improved observability for satellite telemetry pipelines. Working in aerospace was as cool as it sounds. Before that, I led a four-developer team building an esports tournament platform at AATENG Group.

Off the clock I've been getting into videography and a bit of photography — most of what the home lab and NAS are for. I like a challenge, so I ran my first 10K for fun, and more recently got on a motorcycle for the first time in Vietnam, self-riding the Ha Giang Loop with some parasailing in between. Fun fact: I came home with a fractured hand.

experience

Sep 2025 — Apr 2026

Software Engineer Intern · Kepler Communications

Built a database migration engine unifying MySQL, TimescaleDB, and ZODB; consolidated 139 migrations and rebuilt telemetry observability with Elasticsearch and Grafana.

May 2025 — Aug 2025

Software Engineer Intern · AATENG Group

Led a four-developer team building an esports platform for 1,000+ players, with tournament brackets, role-based authentication, and live match chat.

Jun 2024 — Aug 2024

Software Engineer · ITMZ

Next36 S'24 pre-seed · personalized inventory systems

projects

HN Hiring Eval

HN job search and extraction evaluation · React, FastAPI, DuckDB

Homelab

Bare-metal RKE2 Kubernetes cluster · Ansible, ArgoCD, MinIO

Clash of Plans

LLM planning and task prioritization agent · GenAI Genesis 2025

MockMate

real-time AI interview partner · UofTHacks 12

GestureFlow

computer-vision virtual mouse built with OpenCV

skills

languages — Python, Java, TypeScript/JavaScript, SQL, C

backend & web — Spring Boot, Spring Security (JWT), OAuth 2.0, JPA/Hibernate, REST APIs, FastAPI, Node.js, Next.js

cloud & data — PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB, MySQL, DuckDB, Parquet, Elasticsearch, AWS (S3, RDS, EC2), GCP

infrastructure & tooling — Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Grafana, pytest, LangChain