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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.

The Tran

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

GoC#JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonSQLHTMLCSSBash

Frameworks & Libraries

ReactNode.jsASP.NETVue.jsReduxFlaskGin

Distributed Systems & Messaging

KafkagRPCGraphQLRESTOpenAPI/SwaggerMicroservicesEvent-Driven Architecture

Cloud Infrastructure & IAC

AWS (SQS, SNS, RDS, Secrets Manager, IAM)HashiCorp VaultGCPDockerKubernetesHelmTerraformCloudFormationLinux

CI/CD & Observability

GitJenkinsGitHub ActionsOctopus DeployGrafanaPrometheusJaegerOpenTelemetryCloudWatch LogsELK StackJira

AI-Assisted Development

Claude CodeGitHub Copilot

Databases

MySQLPostgreSQLMicrosoft SQL ServerRedisElasticsearchDynamoDBAuroraCockroachDB

Experience

Where I've Worked

  1. Cloud Engineer · Freeman Company (Contract)

    May 2026Present

    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.
  2. Senior Software Engineer · Match Group

    Nov 2021Nov 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.
  3. Software Engineer · StackPath

    Jul 2020Nov 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.
  4. Software Engineer · One Technologies

    Sep 2017Jul 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.
  5. Software Developer · Freeman Company

    Aug 2016Sep 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

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