Eric Tran
Engineering Manager at FlightAware (subsidiary of Collins Aerospace/Raytheon)
Carrollton, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Tran is an engineering manager with a decade of experience building and scaling embedded Linux IoT systems and real-time data pipelines for global flight tracking. At FlightAware he leads a small cross-functional team responsible for edge device software, firmware and hardware that grew the receiver network from 15k to 45k devices while migrating server workloads to Docker/Kubernetes and cutting deploy times by 83%. He has a strong firmware and BIOS background from HPE and Dell, which informs pragmatic low-level design and reliability for distributed sensors. Eric also contributes to open-source projects like dump1090, enhancing front-end UX and branding for widely used ADS-B tooling. Based in Carrollton, TX, he combines hands-on engineering with hiring and process improvements to raise technical standards across his organization.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (7)
html10
css10
javascript10
ui-design10
adb9
ads9
react3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
flightaware/dump1090
Mar 2019 - Dec 2022
Dump1090 is a simple Mode S decoder for RTLSDR devices
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 213 commits, 32 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on enhancing the user interface of the "dump1090" project, specifically by rebranding instances of "Skyview" to "SkyAware". They implemented the new "SkyAware" branding through modifications to HTML, JavaScript, and CSS files, including banner updates and adjustments to the application title and layout. The user also implemented new features for the aircraft table, like the ability to filter by aircraft type, ident, and display a count of active filters, further improving the user experience.
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flightaware/fa-grafana
Apr 2020 - Jun 2022
Grafana dashboards for PiAware
Contributions:5 releases, 31 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 2 months
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