Minh TruongDieppe, NB, Canada

Curriculum Vitae

Experience & Research.

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Software engineer and PhD researcher with 4+ years of experience across backend systems, distributed storage, performance engineering, security tooling, and developer agents. Current research focuses on key management and performance evaluation for distributed storage systems.

Experience
  1. 45Drives / University of New Brunswick (CAS Atlantic)AUG. 2024 - PRESENT

    Graduate Research Engineer

    • Designed and implemented a centralized Key Management System (KMS) supporting key generation, encryption, decryption, and lifecycle operations.
    • Built functionally equivalent monolithic and microservice variants for controlled architectural comparison.
    • Developed a reproducible benchmark harness using open-loop workload generation and automated experiment execution.
    • Measured tail latency, throughput, error rates, and saturation behaviour under increasing load, component failures, and resource constraints.
  2. Accso - Accelerated Solutions GmbHFEB. 2022 - AUG. 2024

    Software Engineer

    • Developed and maintained data-processing and ETL components for capital-market and foreign-exchange data in a regulated German banking environment.
    • Built pipeline components feeding downstream risk and credit-analysis systems, and integrated multivariable regression models into production workflows.
    • Developed tooling for identifying vulnerable third-party dependencies, integrated automated vulnerability scanning into CI/CD pipelines, and automated AWS deployments.
    • Supported GDPR-related data-handling procedures and improved maintainability across production services.
  3. Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied SciencesFEB. 2022 - AUG. 2024

    Teaching Assistant / Research Assistant

    • Supported scientific programming courses through debugging assistance, assignment design, grading, and technical feedback.
Core Skills
  1. Backend & Systems

    Go · Python · C#/.NET · REST APIs · Distributed Systems · Microservices · Linux

  2. Performance Engineering

    k6 · Load Testing · Benchmarking · Latency Analysis · Throughput · Scalability Testing

  3. Infrastructure & DevOps

    Docker · AWS · Proxmox · CI/CD · Git · Deployment Automation · Virtualization

  4. Security & Data

    KMS · Cryptography · AEAD · Vulnerability Management · SQL · T-SQL · ETL · Supply Chain Security

  5. Agent & LLM Systems

    MCP · Local Inference · Agent Evaluation · Tool-Use Benchmarking · Multi-Agent Workflows

  6. Research & Experimentation

    Controlled Experiments · Failure Testing · Reproducibility · Performance Analysis

Education
  1. University of New Brunswick, CanadaAUG. 2024 - PRESENT

    Ph.D. Computer Science: GPA: 4.3/4.3 · Research focus: distributed systems, storage systems, security, and performance evaluation. Member of CAS Atlantic.

  2. Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, GermanyMAR. 2023 - AUG. 2024

    M.Sc. Computer Science: Final grade: 1.1 (German scale, 1.0 = highest / with distinction).

  3. Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, GermanyOCT. 2019 - MAR. 2023

    B.Sc. Computer Science: Final grade: 1.4 (German scale, 1.0 = highest).

Publications
  1. NSS 2024 · Best Paper Award (Springer)

    You Can't Touch This: Detecting Typosquatting Packages for Enhanced Malware Prevention in Software Supply Chains

    Research on typosquatting detection, package-name similarity, and machine-learning classification. Curated a dataset of 394 malicious packages and evaluated classifiers achieving up to 98.4% detection accuracy.

  2. PST 2025 (IEEE Xplore)

    Comparing Client- & Server-Side AEAD Encryption in Software-Defined Storage Systems

    Comparative study evaluating client-side and server-side AEAD encryption approaches for software-defined storage using Ceph under heavy workloads and failure recovery.