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

8+Enterprise applications: Successful 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.

Three paths

Applied Stats

Reports, models, and analytical tools.

RIT coursework, R deployments, Quarto reports, and statistical methods applied to real-world systems.

R and Quarto reports
Shiny dashboards and app links
Data collection, survivorship bias, and sampling practices

Enter Applied Stats

Work Experience

Production systems with real operational weight.

IAM integrations and production support across enterprise identity, automation, application support, and data operations.

Enterprise identity integrations
Automation and provisioning workflows
Production support and data operations

Enter Work Experience

Personal

A warmer archive with a clear privacy boundary.

Cooking, Cooper, field notes, and personal projects that belong behind a clearer privacy boundary.

Cooking journal now
Cooper collection next
Private routes in the roadmap

Enter Personal

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 8+ 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

Work measured by what became more reliable, useful, or efficient.

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 8+ 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

Read the full Rochester Institute of Technology role

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

IT By Design

December 2018 - October 2020

Software Engineer Intern

Maintained client-facing web experiences, customized CMS workflows, and supported data-driven requests in production environments.

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Research & projects

Questions, methods, and artifacts, not just a gallery of cards.

Graduate reports and interactive work are presented as a growing research shelf. Each entry records the question, analytical approach, and thing you can review.

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.

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 reproducible visual analysis of regional tonal patterns in a global music dataset.

Research direction

The questions I want the next reports to answer.

This is a working agenda rather than a claim of finished expertise. It gives future coursework, independent studies, and R deployments a clear place to land.

Current foundation

Measurement before modeling

Treat data collection, sampling, and provenance as part of the system, not as cleanup after the fact.

How does collection design shape the conclusions a model can support?
Which biases remain invisible in an otherwise polished analysis?

Applied direction

Operational systems as data

Use careful visualization and modeling to make patterns in identity, access, and infrastructure easier to understand.

Where can usage patterns reveal friction or failure earlier?
How can analysis support operators without obscuring context?

Long-term practice

Accountable analytical tools

Build reproducible tools that explain their assumptions and communicate uncertainty responsibly.

What makes an analytical result trustworthy to its user?
How should interactive tools expose limitations and uncertainty?

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 DirectoryRBACABACShibboleth

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

Personal archive

Work is only one part of the story.

The personal side starts with a cooking journal and will grow to include Cooper, recipes, and the quieter projects that do not belong on a resume.

Explore the cooking journal

Next collectionCooper · walks, field notes, and an unreasonable number of photos

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

Contact

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Open to software engineering opportunities and thoughtful collaborations.

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