Christopher Tran
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarChristopher Tran is a software engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of experience turning large datasets into compelling narratives and visuals that inform product and business decisions. He brings backend expertise demonstrated by open-source contributions to prominent projects like MITRE's Caldera and Google's gopacket, where he improved planner functionality, refactored core services, and implemented protocol-level serialization for EAPOL. Comfortable across analysis, data plumbing, and system design, he focuses on practical refactors that increase reuse and maintainability while shipping measurable features. Based in the Bay Area, he blends data-driven storytelling with hands-on systems work—often surfacing insights that guide strategic product direction.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (18)
api-rest10
python10
api-design10
restful-api10
packet10
go10
file-handling10
rest-api10
emulation10
decode9
decoding9
serialization9
security-automation9
data-serialization9
cybersecurity9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
mitre/caldera
Dec 2019 - Dec 2021
Automated Adversary Emulation Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:41 reviews, 53 commits, 36 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to enhancing the `mitre/caldera` platform, focusing on improving the planner functionality. Their work involved adding a planner API endpoint and making UI changes to display planner data. They also refactored file services, adding functionality to save files and refactoring the existing code to utilize this new function. Additionally, the user refactored several functions for reuse across the framework and fixed some code style issues.
security-automationadversarysecurity-testingred-teammitre-attack
google/gopacket
Jun 2017 - Oct 2018
Provides packet processing capabilities for Go
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Christopher contributed to the `gopacket` repository by implementing and modifying EAPOL-related functionality. Their work included importing a necessary library, implementing the EAPOL length field and serialization method, and adding support for additional 802.11-2016 options. The user also ran go fmt on the relevant Go files to ensure consistent code style.
golangwiresharkdpdkpacket-processingpacket
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