Krys Newman
Staff Software Engineer
MSE in Software Engineering & AI
Utah, USA
Twelve years building systems other people depend on: enterprise data platforms, real-time video and IoT messaging, B2B SaaS. Now a founding member of Trainual's AI Guild, working on agentic engineering: an organisation-wide Slack bot wired to our MCP tools, and two green-field product suites. Check out my current projects and past papers below.
Projects
06 / INDEXEDDaily News
Pulls the day's posts from a curated source list, transcribes the audio off video, collapses duplicate coverage into one story, publishes a dated archive.
OPEN ↗ 02LiveBackprop to Frontier
A six-month route from classical ML to training language models from scratch. Real courses with public materials only; progress stored per browser.
OPEN ↗ 03Web StoreDev PTO
Live Statuspage health for Claude, GitHub, OpenAI, Bitbucket and Jira, collapsed into one toolbar icon that recolours instead of a panel you have to open. Optional desktop alerts fire when a service you watch changes state.
OPEN ↗ 04In progressAI Frontier
The notebooks I work through alongside Backprop to Frontier, built from scratch rather than imported, starting at the derivative and the numerical gradient and heading for frontier LLM research.
OPEN ↗ 05LiveAI Lab
Interactive 3D visualizations for calculus, linear algebra and machine learning. Drag a point across a loss surface and watch the gradient, the tangent plane and the optimizer's path respond, in the browser at 60 fps.
OPEN ↗ 06CoachingBrazilian Jiu Jitsu
Purple belt, and a part-time coach at Vida Jiu Jitsu in Utah. Teaching a technique to someone who has never seen it is the same skill as writing documentation, with much faster feedback on whether it landed.
OPEN ↗Stack
WHAT I REACH FOR- Languages
- TypeScript · JavaScript · Python · Ruby · SQL · C/C++ · C# · Java
- Frameworks
- React · Redux · Ruby on Rails · Node.js · Angular · Django · Flask · .NET
- Infrastructure
- AWS · GCP · Kubernetes · Docker · PostgreSQL · Elasticsearch · Redis · RabbitMQ · Sidekiq · Celery
- AI
- Agentic workflows · Agentic system architecture · Context engineering · MCP · Claude
- Practice
- TDD · CI/CD · DevOps · A/B testing · Agile
Papers & coursework
SELECTED WRITING| Year | Title | Summary | Format |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Winning the Space Race with Data Science | IBM certificate capstone: SpaceX launch data, from wrangling to a deployed app. | Slides · 19 MB |
| 2019 | Classifying Tech News with Sentiment Analysis and Machine Learning | Master’s capstone, ASU with Intel. Article sentiment as a signal against a company’s stock. | PDF · 800 KB |
| 2019 | CorrelaTech, recorded demo | The capstone running: classified article feeds, price charts, and the ingestion job. | Video · 5 min |
| 2018 | Machine Vision for Safer Self-Driving Cars | Perception under degraded conditions. | PDF · 440 KB |
| 2018 | Machine Vision in Construction Zones | The hardest case for lane and sign detection. | PDF · 818 KB |
| 2018 | Time-Series Forecasting with Neural Nets | Sequence models against classical baselines. | PDF · 386 KB |
| 2018 | Linear Regression with TensorFlow on Time-Series | Where a linear model is still the right answer. | PDF · 434 KB |
| Repos | Notebook archive | Berkeley Data Science · Google ML · IBM Data Science. | Notebooks |
Career
TWELVE YEARS| Years | Role | Scope |
|---|---|---|
| 2025–Current | Staff Software EngineerTrainual | Founding member of the AI Guild, setting agentic engineering practice for the company. Built an organisation-wide Slack bot with access to every MCP tool in the engineering ecosystem. Green-field engineer on two new product suites, inception to release. |
| 2024–25 | Senior Software EngineerBrivo | Brivo Video: low-latency feeds across large camera fleets; cut load and render time 37% with web workers. Tuned Mosquitto and RabbitMQ to sub-millisecond latency for real-time IoT messaging. |
| 2020–23 | Senior Software EngineerTrainual | A/B testing and analysis that shaped product strategy and lifted retention. Cross-functional delivery in a fast-growing startup. |
| 2019–20 | Software EngineerIntel | Architected a GitLab-based DevOps platform saving roughly $50K a year in engineering hours. Built a real-time analytics dashboard that raised factory output 66%. |
| 2014–19 | Software EngineerIntel | Secure .NET cryptographic tooling for remote chipset upgrades and inventory. Cut supply-chain tool load times 35%. |
Education & certificates
ASU · COURSERA · UDEMY| Year | Qualification | Capstone |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | MSE in Software Engineering & AIArizona State University | Capstone: AI-driven sentiment analysis of tech news against stock prices. |
| 2016 | BS Computer ScienceArizona State University | Capstone: IoT hand-sanitiser tracking over Bluetooth. |
| Year | Certificate | Issuer |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | IBM Data Science | Coursera. |
| 2022 | Ruby on Rails | Udemy. |