Summary
Cao Tran is a seasoned software engineering leader with 9 years of experience delivering scalable, fault-tolerant systems across enterprises like Google, Capital One, Cisco, and Wells Fargo. He blends hands-on full lifecycle development—from high-level architecture and microservices design to code review and automated testing—with proven leadership in planning, risk management, and cross-team coordination. Comfortable across cloud platforms (GCP/AWS), distributed systems, and a wide tech stack (Java, Scala, Python, Node.js, Spring, React, Spark/Hadoop), he has repeatedly modernized legacy systems and boosted performance in mission-critical domains including finance, healthcare imaging, and embedded navigation. Based in San Jose, he currently leads engineering as a Vice President at Wells Fargo while continuing to deepen expertise in cloud-native microservices and data processing. Notably, his background includes onsite leadership in Japan and a track record of improving application performance by orders of magnitude in earlier medical imaging work.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electronic and Telecommunication Technology, Bachelor's degree, Electronic and Telecommunication Technology at Vietnam National University, VNU University of Engineering and Technology
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Maharishi University of Management
English, Japanese, Vietnamese