Harman Kailey

Applied statistics, software engineering, and personal field notes

Harman Kailey

Software developer with 4+ years in IAM integrations and production support, pursuing an M.S. in Applied Statistics. I want to write reliable code, ask the right questions, and interpret patterns responsibly.

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New Jersey, USA · Software Engineer at RIT · M.S. candidate

Harman Kailey kneeling beside his dog on a sunlit balcony
Harman Kailey + CooperEngineer & analyst
5+Enterprise applications
Successful IAM integrations with various types of vendors.
4+ yearsProduction experience
Across IAM delivery, application support, and data operations.
HundredsStaff hours saved
Automating the mundane so teams can work on other things.

Source highlights

Resume highlights and RIT statement language.

Direct excerpts that connect the professional record to the applied-statistics direction.

Resume

IAM integrations and production support

Software developer with 4+ years in IAM integrations and production support, pursuing an M.S. in Applied Statistics.

  • Designed and supported IAM integrations with 5+ enterprise applications using JSON, XML, and REST APIs across mobile credentials, email marketing, access management, and collaboration services.
  • Built a PHP MVC portal for user credential management and administrator support, reducing ID Card Office workload through access rules that hid revoked credentials and prevented reactivation.
  • Automated ID photo ingestion and processing for Apple Wallet, adding black padding to reduce false positives in vendor face detection and saving the ID Card Office hundreds of staff hours.
  • Wrote and executed SQL and PL/SQL corrections in a production Oracle database to resolve synchronization defects and preserve data integrity in a trading environment.

RIT admission statement

Why applied statistics

Building robust systems requires more than just engineering skills. It requires the statistical reasoning to ensure those systems are reliable and accountable.

  • Statistical insight depends heavily on how data is collected, not just how it is analyzed.
  • Learning about concepts like survivorship bias and sampling practices showed me how easily rigorous models can fail due to flawed inputs and survey design.
  • Over time, I have learned to view this ambiguity as a tool.
  • I want to be an engineer who writes reliable code but also asks the right questions and interprets patterns responsibly.

Production practice

Navigating technical and enterprise challenges.

Selected outcomes from enterprise identity, automation, and production data support.

Rochester Institute of Technology

September 2022 - Present

Software Engineer I

Build and support enterprise identity integrations and operational tools connecting RIT's in-house IAM platform with campus systems.

  • Designed and supported IAM integrations with 5+ enterprise applications using JSON, XML, and REST APIs across mobile credentials, email marketing, access management, and collaboration services.
  • Built a PHP MVC portal for user credential management and administrator support, reducing ID Card Office workload through access rules that hid revoked credentials and prevented reactivation.
  • Automated ID photo ingestion and processing for Apple Wallet, adding black padding to reduce false positives in vendor face detection and saving the ID Card Office hundreds of staff hours.
PHPSQLIAMREST APIsJSONXML
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Bessemer Trust

October 2021 - September 2022

Application Support Analyst

Supported production applications and data workflows in a live trading environment.

  • Wrote and executed SQL and PL/SQL corrections in a production Oracle database to resolve synchronization defects and preserve data integrity in a trading environment.
  • Maintained intraday ETL pipelines and partnered with developers to diagnose and recover production processing failures.
SQLPL/SQLOracle DatabaseETLProduction support
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Earlier experience

Wegmans

June 2019 - December 2020

Helping Hands Associate

A deceptively algorthmic role collecting shopping carts via sweeps. The Wegmans snacks kept us fed, and hooked me into shopping at Wegmans to this day.

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Research & projects

Curiosity is my greatest asset.

Some of my favorite projects I have worked on.

Interactive statistical application

Tested R Shiny application

NHTSA Fatal Crash Analytics

Research questionHow are driver age, driver sex, and police-reported alcohol involvement associated with recorded travel speed among drivers in fatal crashes?

A tested R Shiny application for exploring how driver age, driver sex, and police-reported alcohol involvement are associated with recorded travel speed in 2024 fatal crashes.

RShinyggplot2RegressionCluster bootstraptestthatData validation
Launch live application View source on GitHub Read case study

Reproducible report

Quarto report

Global Music Visualization

Research questionWhat regional tonal patterns become visible when a global music dataset is compared through a consistent visual framework?

A practice in leading and misleading with visual analysis of regional tonal patterns in a global music dataset.

RQuartoggplot2Reproducible reporting
Read the embedded report Read case study

Background

A technical practice grounded in systems thinking and statistical reasoning.

Why this intersection

Engineering taught me to build systems. Statistics is teaching me how to question them.

During my final year in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers, my senior design project focused on using computer vision to predict and manage vehicle flow at intersections.

We were building a model that had never seen the real world, and we lacked the tools to validate it properly. That project exposed a gap in my knowledge.

I want to be an engineer who writes reliable code but also asks the right questions and interprets patterns responsibly.

Education

Rochester Institute of Technology

M.S. in Applied Statistics

Expected August 2027

Part-time graduate study focused on statistical reasoning, modeling, practical analysis, and quantitative communication.

Rutgers University

B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering

January 2021

An engineering foundation spanning software, hardware, embedded systems, circuits, and system-level problem solving.

Capabilities

Development and dataIntegration services, automation, analytical applications, and production data support.
PHPJavaScriptPythonSQLPL/SQLR

Also: Java, HTML/CSS, Oracle Database, REST APIs, JSON, XML

Identity and enterprise systemsIdentity integrations, provisioning workflows, and application access controls.
IAMLDAPActive DirectoryRBACABAC

Also: Duo, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, ServiceNow, Workday exposure

Platforms and deliveryDiagnosis and delivery across development and production environments.
AWSLinuxKuberneteskubectlGitLabCI/CD

Also: Okteto, Jira, Confluence, Remote Desktop, Vercel

Cooking journal

My favorite escape from screens.

Cooking is where I trade the keyboard for cast iron, a mortar and pestle, and a lot of tasting as I go. I gravitate toward Southeast Asian flavors—ginger, garlic, lime, chili, fresh herbs, and a little sweetness. Recipes give me a framework, but heat, texture, and instinct decide where the dish ends up.

Open the cooking journal

In the kitchenRecipes · process · dishes made from scratch

Tall sesame-roll sandwich layered with sliced deli meat, cheese, tomato, arugula, and dark sauce on a white plate.

Contact

Let's connect!

Open to software engineering opportunities and thoughtful collaborations.

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