Benson Tran
Co-Founder & CTO at GLP Winner
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenson Tran is a Co-Founder and CTO with 12 years of experience taking early-stage products from zero to one and scaling front-end platforms for complex, mission-driven customers. He blends hands-on frontend engineering (React, Three.js, React Native) with product instincts—shipping an Apple TestFlight wellness app (Pawket Health) that ties UI, 3D visuals, and health integrations together. At Esper he was the first engineering hire and later Frontend Engineering Manager, modernizing stacks and building the Core Team that enabled federal contracts. Benson pairs an electrical/computer engineering and CS background from Duke with a practical interest in creative tooling (Blender, Adobe) and AI—he leverages serverless and edge architectures plus LangChain/OpenAI in recent projects.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.S.E. Electrical & Computer Engineering B.S. Computer Science , B.S.E. Electrical & Computer Engineering B.S. Computer Science at Duke UniversityUniversity College London
chinese-teochew, chinese-mandarin, English, Swahili
Github Skills (62)
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bottomsheet9
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
amni/twit_lab
Mar 2014 - Apr 2014
Contributions:16 commits in 1 month
devdraweat/kalendr
Feb 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:250 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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