Hi, I'm The Tran
Senior Software Engineer
10+ years building distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and production ML — comfortable owning a system end to end.

About
Background
Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years across full-stack development, distributed backend systems, and cloud infrastructure. Experience spans building React applications and internal component libraries, migrating legacy platforms to event-driven microservices with Kafka, and integrating machine learning fraud-detection into production — work finance leadership attributed to an estimated $2M in annual savings. Comfortable owning a system end to end — architecture, implementation, and production operations — across teams and tech stacks.
10+
Years of experience
$2M
Est. annual savings from fraud-detection ML
2
Event-driven migrations led with Kafka
40%
Faster data retrieval from API services I built
Skills
Technical Toolbox
Languages, frameworks, and infrastructure I use to build and operate production systems end to end.
Programming Languages
Frameworks & Libraries
Distributed Systems & Messaging
Cloud Infrastructure & IAC
CI/CD & Observability
AI-Assisted Development
Databases
Experience
Where I've Worked
Cloud Engineer · Freeman Company (Contract)
May 2026 – Present
Dallas, TX
- Developed a cloud-native event ingestion service on AWS Routed SAP and Salesforce events via EventBridge with DynamoDB idempotency for reliability, scalability, and enterprise integration readiness.
- Owned a shared API platform with Amazon API Gateway and AWS WAF, standardizing secure, production-ready patterns for exposing and managing integrations across multiple services.
- Automated Dev, UAT, and Production deployments with GitHub Actions and Terraform, improving release consistency and reducing operational overhead for cloud infrastructure changes.
- Provisioned, configured, and operated AWS infrastructure with Terraform across API Gateway, WAF, EventBridge, DynamoDB, Aurora, Lambda, ECS/Fargate, and CloudWatch, improving the security, scalability, and observability of production integrations.
Senior Software Engineer · Match Group
Nov 2021 – Nov 2025
Dallas, TX
- Built new brand onboarding, A/B testing, and feature add-ons for Match Group's international brands (ParPerfeito, Match Japan, OurTime, BlackPeopleMeet) using React, TypeScript, Redux, and Apollo Client.
- Contributed to migrating backend services from a legacy monolith to microservices, improving scalability and enabling faster, more reliable delivery across a multi-brand product ecosystem.
- Designed and built an event-driven CRM platform with Kafka, creating ordered and scalable asynchronous workflows as the business expanded across brands.
- Collaborated through code reviews and day-to-day engineering support, mentoring 3 teammates and strengthening delivery quality across frontend and microservice development.
- Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines with Docker, Jenkins, Octopus Deploy, and GitHub Actions, automating build, test, and deployment workflows across production systems.
Software Engineer · StackPath
Jul 2020 – Nov 2021
Dallas, TX
- Built internal platform services in Go supporting 30+ microservices and 10K+ requests/sec, backed by CockroachDB.
- Implemented a gRPC communication layer with protocol buffers, reducing inter-service latency by 35%.
- Owned the payment gateway connector for a billing system migration, leading the cutover to the new platform.
- Built the connector using gRPC and Protocol Buffers internally and REST APIs for external credit card processing.
- Supported StackPath's CDN product, building API integrations between the CDN and internal systems.
- Integrated CDN usage data into the new billing platform to support usage-based billing calculations.
Software Engineer · One Technologies
Sep 2017 – Jul 2020
Dallas, TX
- Led development of the data pipeline and serving layer for a fraud-detection ML model in production, attributed by finance leadership to an estimated $2M in annual savings.
- Built a second credit bureau integration (Experian) with .NET Core, Docker, and Kubernetes, cutting per-pull costs an estimated 20–30% and adding bidirectional failover between bureaus.
- Executed the migration of legacy systems to a modern tech stack, reducing technical debt by 70% and accelerating feature delivery by 50%.
- Built single-page applications in React and Vue.js with client-side routing and state management for 50K+ monthly active users.
Software Developer · Freeman Company
Aug 2016 – Sep 2017
Dallas, TX
- Supported a presentation management app for meeting room assignments and slide loading, using C# ASP.NET MVC and SQL.
- Built a custom kiosk app displaying presentation schedules and room assignments for exhibitors, using JavaScript, jQuery, and AngularJS.
Education
- University of Texas at Dallas
Bachelor of Science, Management Information Systems
Certifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Amazon Web Services — Issued Jun 2020 - AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services — Issued Jun 2020 - AWS Certified Developer – Associate
Amazon Web Services — Issued Jun 2020 - HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
HashiCorp — Issued May 2021
Contact
Get in Touch
Open to new opportunities — reach out through whichever channel works best for you.
Phone
940-337-3286
tran82h@gmail.com
linkedin.com/in/the-h-tran
GitHub
github.com/tran82h
Location
Wylie, TX 75098