Charlie Tran
Software Development Engineer at Twitch
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolCharlie Tran is a Software Development Engineer with a decade of experience building full-stack applications and scalable infrastructure, currently focused on frontend experiences at Twitch. He blends product-minded UI craftsmanship with systems-level architecture, having previously held founding and senior engineering roles at Metaphor Data and LinkedIn. Charlie contributes to open-source projects like DataHub, where he has improved front-end navigation and dataset UX—demonstrating attention to developer-facing tooling and metadata platforms. Recently he’s pivoted deep into generative AI, experimenting with Llama-2 fine-tuning, OpenAI APIs, vector and graph databases, and memory-aware LLM architectures to make models more useful in real-world apps. Based in San Jose, he pairs rigorous academic training from UPenn with early finance and audit experience, giving him a unique lens on data, observability, and product trust. Outside core engineering, he’s driven by finding practical ways to surface data-awareness and long-term memory for AI systems that enhance creator experiences.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Accounting, Master’s Degree Accounting at University of MississippiMasters of Computer and Information Technology Computer Science, Masters of Computer and Information Technology Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
English, Vietnamese, Italian, Japanese
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Github Skills (14)
front-end-development10
react10
ui-components10
typescript-types9
typescript9
typescripts9
user-interface8
emberjs8
interface-design8
ui-design8
sql6
postgresql6
mathjax6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
datahub-project/datahub
Mar 2018 - Nov 2020
The Metadata Platform for your Data and AI Stack
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 302 commits, 179 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Charlie primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the DataHub platform. They focused on implementing and modifying UI components, specifically within the "wherehows-web" directory of the repository. Their work involved refactoring the tab navigation system, enhancing the user experience with the ACL access tab, updating the schema history, and adding improvements to dataset properties with customized components.
data-managementdata-discoverydata-stackmodern-data-stackdata-catalog
cptran777/WhereHows
Mar 2018 - Sep 2020
Data Discovery and Lineage for Big Data Ecosystem
Contributions:4 PRs, 145 pushes, 117 branches in 2 years 5 months
bigdatalineagedata-sciencedata-discoverybig-data
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