Bao Tran
Engineering Manager at Handshake
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBao Tran is an Engineering Manager in Oakland with 11 years of hands-on experience building iOS apps and backend services, now leading teams at Handshake. He progressed from iOS Engineer to Senior iOS Engineer and now manager within the same company, demonstrating both technical depth in Swift and pragmatic leadership across product cycles. Bao pairs mobile expertise with backend Ruby and JavaScript familiarity, enabling cross-stack problem solving and rapid incident resolution. Known for turning complex issues into clear, actionable plans, he emphasizes collaboration, adaptability, and mentorship. His background—from Mobile Systems Business Analyst at PG&E to freelance and enterprise roles—gives him a unique blend of product sensitivity and engineering discipline. A quick learner with a playful side (GitHub bio: print("lol")), he brings positivity and a team-first mindset to scaling mobile experiences.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Political Science Communications, B.S. Political Science Communications at University of California, Davis
Github Skills (21)
calendar-view7
custom-view7
deep-linking6
cvcalendar6
swift5
surveymonkey5
picture-in-picture4
ios4
reachability4
podfile4
sdk4
inline4
playback3
closures3
react-native3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
baottran/DEGWEB
Jan 2016 - Jun 2019
Contributions:49 PRs, 175 pushes, 38 branches in 3 years 5 months
AntonPot/YouChallenge
May 2015 - Apr 2019
Web app where you accept various challenges
Contributions:6 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 11 months
javascriptweb-applicationwebapp
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