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
50K+
Monthly active users served
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
CI/CD & Observability
AI-Assisted Development
Databases
Experience
Where I've Worked
Senior Integration Engineer · Freeman Company (Contract)
May 2026 – Present
Dallas, TX
- Built a cloud-native event ingest gateway (C#/.NET 10) routing SAP and Salesforce events to AWS EventBridge, using DynamoDB for idempotency and Claude Code to accelerate development.
- Designed and operated an org-shared API Gateway platform (Amazon API Gateway, AWS WAF) serving all company workloads.
- Built GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines across Dev, UAT, and Production, using Claude Code to deploy Terraform infrastructure and migrate Aurora data to UAT.
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 core backend services from a legacy monolith to microservices, improving deployment frequency and scalability.
- Helped design and build an event-driven CRM platform (filter/render/delivery pipeline) using Kafka partitioning for ordering and throughput, replacing a system that couldn't scale to new brands.
- Mentored 3 engineers on microservices and React best practices through code reviews.
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines with Docker, Jenkins, Octopus Deploy, and GitHub Actions, automating build, test, and deployment.
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
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