Hien Tran
Engineering Lead at Tyro Payments
Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolHien Tran is an Engineering Lead based in Geelong, Australia with 13 years of experience building full‑stack systems using React, TypeScript, Node, Java and AWS. He has progressed from hands‑on Android and Java development to senior and principal engineering roles, now leading teams at Tyro Payments to deliver scalable, production-grade software. His background spans consumer apps (as director of HQT Apps) to mission‑critical financial systems and high‑traffic web platforms, reflecting strong domain versatility. Hien contributes to open documentation for the widely used QGIS project, showing an attention to detail and a willingness to improve developer and user experiences beyond code. He combines cloud architecture and frontend craftsmanship with embedded and geospatial interests (Python, QGIS, Raspberry Pi, Arduino), which informs pragmatic, systems‑level decisions.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) with Honors, Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) with Honors, Software Engineering at Victoria University of WellingtonNaenae College
Vietnamese
Github Skills (4)
qgis10
rs10
documentation10
python4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
qgis/QGIS-Documentation
Jun 2013 - Aug 2013
QGIS Documentation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:15 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Hien focused on updating and expanding the QGIS documentation, specifically the print composer section. The contributions involved reorganizing content, adding descriptions of new features like rendering modes and atlas generation, and updating item properties across different elements. The changes included updating tool descriptions, updating icons and correcting formatting issues.
pythonqgisrst
tqhien/RpiRoadbook
Oct 2018 - Aug 2019
Contributions:3 releases, 248 commits, 119 pushes in 9 months
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