Anna Tran
Software Engineer at Pinterest
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAnna Tran is a software engineer with 8 years of experience specializing in observability, performance, and backend systems, currently based in Vancouver and working at Pinterest. She has driven large-scale improvements at AWS for Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus—reducing latencies, slashing memory usage, and helping scale active series limits into the millions—while also contributing core runtime and distributor enhancements to the widely used open-source Cortex project. Comfortable across the full backend stack, she builds production services for telemetry, dynamic quotas, and customer usage visibility, and has a track record of eliminating duplication and cutting deployment complexity. Beyond shipping features, she mentors junior engineers and interns, and brings a pragmatic blend of performance-first thinking and operational focus to observability workloads.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Calgary
French, Vietnamese, Japanese
Github Skills (9)
go10
prometheus10
runtime-configuration10
backend10
back-end-development10
testing10
kubernetes-pods9
monitoring9
kubernetes9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cortexproject/cortex
Apr 2023 - Feb 2025
A horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long term Prometheus.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 5 PRs, 16 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Anna primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Cortex project, focusing on runtime configuration and distributor enhancements. Their work involved adding support for various storage backend options and implementing limits within the distributor to manage client requests and ingestion rates. They also introduced a new metric for label size in the validation process and updated related tests. Furthermore, the user addressed service availability issues by returning HTTP 503 errors when instance limits are reached.
golangscalabletenantprometheus-exporterlong-term
anna-tran/cortex
Apr 2023 - Dec 2024
A horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long term Prometheus.
Contributions:3 PRs, 47 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year 7 months
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