Cuong Tran
Staff Instrumentation Engineer
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCuong Tran is a Staff Instrumentation Engineer with 15 years of hands-on experience designing, building, and sustaining complex laboratory instruments and production systems for diagnostics. Based in San Diego and currently at Cue Health, he blends mechanical CAD, materials knowledge, and fabrication skills with deep experience in instrument troubleshooting, IQ/OQ installations, and operator training to keep high-throughput production reliable and safe. His background spans oligonucleotide chemistry, assay development, and automation integration, giving him a rare cross-disciplinary view from wet lab to hardware and control software. An avid problem-solver noted for “MacGyver” fixes, he also contributes to open-source tooling for Rails developers—demonstrating attention to detail in both hardware releases and software maintenance.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San Diego
Japanese, Vietnamese, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
activerecord10
ruby-rails10
rails10
maintenance10
ruby10
refactor9
refactoring9
version-control8
testing8
jenkins6
jenkins-job-dsl6
jcasc6
jenkins-pipeline6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ctran/annotate_models
Jun 2011 - Oct 2022
Annotate Rails classes with schema and routes info
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 19 reviews, 206 commits in 11 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Cuong primarily contributed to the `annotate_models` project by fixing bugs and preparing releases. They addressed issues related to schema information generation, including handling default values and Rails 4.2 internal changes. Further work included removing debug statements, refactoring the codebase, and preparing for multiple releases with version bumps. The user also updated the codebase to handle foreign keys and to provide more flexible customization options.
railsannotaterubyroutesactiverecord
ctran/chrome-jenkins-notifier
May 2015 - Feb 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 2 comments in 2 years 9 months
jenkinschromejenkins-buildfailureschrome-extension
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