Summary
Dan Tran is a full-stack software engineer based in San Jose with eight years of hands-on experience building responsive web and mobile applications. He combines modern front-end expertise in React/Redux and React Native with back-end skills in Node.js, PostgreSQL, and scalable deployments on AWS, NGINX, and load balancers. Dan has a practical focus on performance and team cohesion—evidenced by a 1,700% query speedup and building reusable React components to keep teams aligned. His personal projects include a React Native matchmaking app for dog owners and a retail storefront that sustained 1,000+ requests per second with sub-100ms latency. A Hack Reactor alumnus with a BA in Biology from San Jose State, he approaches engineering with a pragmatic, problem-solving mindset that treats programming as the tool of necessity and efficiency.
8 years of coding experience
Hack Reactor
San José State University