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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

  • 2018.05 - 2018.09

    Austin, Texas

    Minor, Business
    UT Austin McCombs School of Business
    Business Administration
  • 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

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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%.
  • 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
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    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