Johnathan Tran
Lead Software Engineer at AT&T
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohnathan Tran is a Lead Software Engineer with 17 years of experience, currently driving front-end and data visualization initiatives at AT&T from Houston. He blends React-based UI development with Power BI data modeling to turn complex datasets into actionable dashboards and has a strong interest in UX and technology for social good. His open-source contributions include backend and database work on the OpenStack Ceilometer telemetry project—implementing MongoDB authentication, SQLAlchemy backends, and network traffic monitoring—which reflects comfort with large-scale cloud telemetry and storage. He has also improved security and authentication for Logstash/Kibana deployments, demonstrating practical DevOps and access-control expertise. Trained as a mechanical engineer with a computer science minor from UT Austin, he brings cross-disciplinary problem solving and a systems mindset to application design and performance optimization.
16 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at AustinHarmony School of Advancement
Github Skills (16)
ceilometer10
configuration-management10
chef-client10
chef-solo10
logstash10
sqlalchemy10
apache10
mongodb10
python10
mongodb-database10
ruby10
devops9
database-design9
server-configuration9
openstack9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/ceilometer
Aug 2012 - Jul 2013
OpenStack Telemetry (Ceilometer)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:20 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Johnathan primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Ceilometer project, focusing on storage and data collection aspects. Their work included implementing MongoDB authentication and database connection configurations. They also addressed bug fixes related to data collection and added support for network traffic monitoring within the compute infrastructure. Furthermore, the user implemented SQLAlchemy backend, and other related optimizations.
telemetryopenstackopentelemetry
lusis/chef-logstash
Apr 2013 - Sep 2013
Semi-official Logstash cookbook
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Johnathan primarily contributed to enhancing the authentication and configuration of the Kibana interface within the Logstash cookbook. Their work involved adding Apache authentication, introducing various authentication methods (basic, CAS, LDAP), and configuring access control through Apache virtual hosts. They also addressed variable placement issues and incorporated log file and configuration adjustments to support agent and server operations. The contributions improved security and configuration flexibility of the Kibana interface.
cookbooksemilogstashelasticsearchchef-resource
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