About
Hi, I'm Markian
Software Engineer & AI Researcher.
Researching and Developing for a better now and a safer future.
- Highest Degree: BS in Computer Science
- E-mail: markian.hromiak@yahoo.com
- Employed At: Mastercard
Statistics
Years of Higher Education
Maintained Open-Source Packages/Released Applications
Papers Submitted for Publishing
Years of Industry Experience
Industry Internships
Skills
Other skills not listed include Pytest/Junit/Mockito testing frameworks, opencv, Git, Agile dev, Jira/Rally, Verilog, Numpy/Pandas, Reinforcement Learning, Dynamic and Linear Programming.
Confidence levels fade over time, but you never really forget how to ride a bike or write a language
Resume
Work (here) before Play (below).
Summary
Markian Hromiak
Innovative and Agile Software Engineer with 3 years industry experience building and rebuilding production systems, 7 years of college education covering artificial intelligence and computer architecture, and 2 industry internships designing and developing client-centered software systems on both large and small scales.
Currently pursuing a Master's degree in Computer Science focused in AI at the Georgia Institute of Technology
- Address: St. Louis, Missouri
- Email: markian.hromiak@yahoo.com
Internships
TITANS Software Engineering Intern
May 2020 - August 2020
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
- Lead in the design, development, and implementation of an application-layer noisy channel package to empirically compare forward error correction implementations
- Constructed a mathematically rigorous pipeline algorithm for reliable file transfer over an unreliable simplex channel
- Optimized algorithm performance through test-driven development, memory profiling and complexity analysis
Information Systems Intern
May 2019 - August 2019
Edward Jones Investments, St. Louis, MO
- Constructed RESTful, microservice-centric, front-end APIs for an AGILE, multi-platform UI enterprise application
- Collaborated in daily scrum meetings and AGILE training/research to aid in a firm-wide Waterfall-to-AGILE transition
- Shadowed system administrators and UX designers to supplement shell scripting and design skills not focused on in the main project
Education
Masters in Computer Science - Focus in Artificial Intelligence
2021 - 2022
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
(transfer) 2022 - present
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Bachelors of Science in Computer Science
2016 - 2020
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
- Georgia Tech Eta Kappa Nu IEEE Honor Society member
- Georgia Tech Inventure Prize Competition Semi-Finalist
- Georgia Tech ‘Make a Difference’ Hackathon 2018 – Runner-up
- Girls Who Code @ GT - Programming Assignment Developer
- University Physics Competition – silver, bronze medals
- Provost Merit Scholarship Recipient
High School Diploma
2012 - 2016
Mariner High School, Cape Coral, FL
Graduate of the STEM Engineering Department
Professional Experience
Software Engineer II
February 2022 - Present
Mastercard, St. Louis, MO
- Successfully led the post-production handoff of a high-visibility product after contributing to monitor dashboard and alert setup, resulting in no issues with application uptime
- Led team knowledge transfer seminars to guide a new team on software documentation practices and Spring, resulting in a 40% increase in iteration point delivery compared to prior measures
- Worked with several external teams to develop a distributed, Kafka-based publisher-subscriber application, allowing Mastercard to scale from terabytes to petabytes of quickly transferrable data
- Demonstrated programming flexibility by adapting existing software to accommodate a core architectural design pivot on short notice without sacrificing timeline
- Regularly led functional demonstrations of several flagship projects’ progresses to peer department teams, managers, vice-presidents and product owners
- Mentored junior members on software design philosophies and their application to current projects, resulting in cleaner, dryer code and a doubling in iteration point capacity
- Automated application deployment to all environments using Chef Habitat, Jenkins, XLR and HashiVault, reducing human error, cutting deployment times by 50%, and enabling configuration changes without sacrificing app uptime
- Researched and implemented POCs on production silent testing, dashboard promotion automation and deep application health checks, resulting in increased application resiliency
- Isolated sources of high performance testing latencies and propagated changes through production environments
Software Engineer I
February 2021 - February 2022
Mastercard, St. Louis, MO
- Elaborated and continuously integrated production features using development tools such as SQL, Splunk, Java, Jenkins and PCF
- Manager Intern Mentorship through onboarding, Agile methodology, object-oriented programming principles, cross-team collaboration practices and further company engagement opportunities, resulting in talent acquisition
- Initiated collaboration with senior mentors to expand metrics gathering and analysis across a core plugin architecture
- Created an efficient, open-source, cross-platform acronym dictionary CLI available company-wide for interns and coworkers, resulting in a consistent lexicon of shared terminology
- Collaborated with senior mentors to expand metrics gathering and Splunk analysis across a plugin architecture
- Documented critical procedures on security certificate creation, billing service encryption and XOM key addition
- Rapidly learned development frameworks while working as a member of a geographically distributed team
Portfolio
Software, Scripts, Papers, Ideas.
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- Apps
- Papers
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