================================================================================ Mark Truong DevOps Engineer Active DoD Secret Clearance ================================================================================ San Diego, California | https://github.com/tmarktg contact: see marktruong.com/#contact Computer Science graduate from San Diego State University with production engineering experience. Hands-on with infrastructure as code (Terraform), CI/CD automation (GitHub Actions, GitLab), containerization (Docker), and serverless AWS architectures across the full deployment lifecycle. Comfortable in Agile/Scrum environments, writing technical documentation, and collaborating across teams to ship reliable, automated systems. Seeking a DevOps engineering role to build and operate scalable, reproducible infrastructure. Active DoD Secret clearance. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EXPERIENCE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DevOps Engineer, CineStar Cinemas (2025-12 - 2026-03) Production-grade cinema booking platform serving real end-user traffic across multiple enterprise client sites. - Built and maintained a production-grade cinema booking platform integrating a React/Next.js frontend with a Magento 2 OOP backend, serving real end-user traffic across multiple enterprise client sites - Designed and implemented a GraphQL API layer with custom resolvers and a REST service layer, applying enterprise integration patterns compatible with both modern and legacy system architectures - Executed relational database schema changes and MySQL migrations to support new platform features, maintaining data integrity across production environments - Containerized the development environment with Docker across Linux/WSL2 and macOS, enabling reproducible builds and reducing onboarding friction for distributed teams - Authored technical documentation, architecture specs, and integration guides to support team onboarding, handoff procedures, and long-term system maintenance Computer Science Tutor, San Diego State University (2023-12 - 2025-05) - Tutored undergraduate students in Data Structures, Algorithms, and core CS fundamentals, reinforcing OOP principles, algorithmic thinking, and engineering best practices - Collaborated with faculty to assess student work with a focus on technical rigor, code correctness, and efficient problem-solving -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EDUCATION -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, San Diego State University — 3.9 GPA, summa cum laude (2023-08 - 2025-05) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROJECTS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Serverless Stock Data Pipeline Event-driven AWS pipeline (EventBridge cron → ingestion Lambda → DynamoDB → retrieval Lambda → API Gateway → S3 static frontend) serving live stock data end to end. All infrastructure provisioned as code with Terraform; build, test, and deploy automated with GitHub Actions CI/CD. AWS, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Python https://github.com/tmarktg/stocks-serverless-pipeline Cinephile Conversational movie recommendation engine: RAG pipeline with agentic LangGraph path, multi-turn context, and eval harness. Python, FastAPI, Qdrant, LangGraph, Claude API, React https://github.com/tmarktg/cinephile AI Meme Generator Image captioning pipeline from AI Club at SDSU: BLIP captioning, Claude-powered meme rewriting, Pillow rendering, FastAPI + React app. Hugging Face, BLIP, Claude API, FastAPI, React https://github.com/tmarktg/image-captioning -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SKILLS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Languages: JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, PHP, SQL, Java (actively developing) Frontend: React, Next.js, HTML5, CSS3, Tailwind CSS, Redux Toolkit Backend: Node.js, RESTful APIs, GraphQL APIs, PHP 8.1/8.2, Magento 2 (OOP backend), MySQL Tools & Platforms: Git, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Docker, Terraform (IaC), AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, S3, EventBridge), Nginx, Linux/Unix, Jest Methodologies: Agile/Scrum, OOP, Design Patterns, SDLC, API Design (REST & GraphQL)