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Basics
Name | Kellan Cerveny |
Label | Electrical and Computer Engineer |
Url | https://kellancerveny.com/ |
Summary | Engineer, entrepreneur, and tinkerer based in Austin, Texas. |
Education
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2018.05 - 2018.09 Austin, Texas
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2017.09 - 2022.04 Austin, Texas
B.S. Electrical Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Operating Systems
- Embedded Systems Lab
- Software Lab
- Automatic Control Systems
Work
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2024.04 - Present DevOps Engineer, Embedded Systems Engineer
Arrow Air
Performing embedded systems engineering in drone development for a Web 3.0 drone company in west Texas.
- Developed an efficient power delivery board for test drones, reducing flight load by two pounds.
- Strengthened Terraform GitHub management suite, accelerating contribution feedback cycle for 45% of the team.
- Pioneered documentation and discussion platforms, including Discourse hosting, development of internal governance sites, remote-first IP development, and GitHub actions CI/CD, all in 40% of allocated budget and 70% allowed time.
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2022.07 - 2024.02 Co-Founder, Full Stack Developer
Furnisearch.com
- Led strategic planning, technology development, and technical hiring for cloud-native furniture search platform with $150k budget, partnered with 20+ retailers, including Bed Bath & Beyond and Herman Miller.
- Architected a serverless data analytics platform, handling over 1M concurrent product analyses with 99% uptime. Achieved 75% faster delivery of MVP benchmarks and exceeded performance targets in 8 weeks. | Python, Celery, Redis, AWS SQS, Docker
- Developed a novel computer-vision analysis tool, resulting in a 32x increase in product attribute data yield while maintaining 97% accuracy. | OpenCV, PIL, SKImage, Python
- Prototyped frontend MVP using React, Node.js, Next.js, MUI, and Redux on AWS Amplify in 7 weeks.
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2021.06 - 2022.05 IoT Engineer, Electronics Lead
Texas Inventionworks
- Engineered Machine Access Control authentication system for heavy machinery, with a pending patent.
- Achieved a 33% under-budget deployment on AWS IoT with OTA updates, enabling direct connections from edge-compute devices to the AWS Amplify web-app. | MQTT, REST, AWS IoT Core
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2020.06 - 2020.09 Embedded Systems Engineer
Oversimplified Tech
The summer COVID-19 broke out, Amin Hamidi and I developed a motion detecting light product from home.
- Developed custom hardware and firmware for novel lighting product
- Reduced product cost by 50% and assembly time by 90%.
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2019.05 - 2019.09 DevOps Engineer Intern
Chevron
- Provisioned IaaS and PaaS applications on MS Azure for the ServiceNow initiative through Ansible playbooks and implemented a DSC framework for automated monitoring
- Developed a comprehensive dashboard for tracking critical roles in the CI/CD pipeline, optimizing build and deployment process for enhanced system reliability.
Skills
DevOps | |
AWS CloudFormation | |
AWS CodePipeline | |
Terraform | |
GitHub Actions |
AWS | |
Amplify | |
Aurora | |
CloudFormation | |
CodePipeline | |
EC2 | |
ECS | |
Route53 | |
Relational Database Service (RDS) | |
S3 | |
Simple Queue Service (SQS) |
Embedded Systems | |
MQTT | |
KiCAD | |
EasyEDA | |
Arduino | |
AWS IoT |
Web Development | |
Bootstrap | |
Material UI | |
Next.js | |
Node.js | |
React | |
Redux |
Programming Languages | |
Bash | |
C | |
C++ | |
CSS | |
HTML5 | |
Java | |
JavaScript | |
Python | |
Shell (POSIX) | |
SQL | |
TypeScript |
Projects
- 2021.09 - 2021.11
Custom Built 3D Printer + GCode Sender
Designed and built the case, control board, GCode sender and interface for a 3D printer, placing 2nd in ECE design competition.
- Control PCB System
- Web interface
- Laser-cut case
- 2019.10 - Present
View More Projects
Browse more of my projects on my website!
- Hardware Design
- Software
- Design Projects
Awards
- 2017.05.11
BSA Eagle Scout
Boy Scouts of America, Troop 599
Built bookshelves for the San Jose pediatrics waiting room, offering reading resources for 26,000 annual patient visits.
Languages
English | |
Native speaker |