Katherine Tran
Sr. Technology Specialist, Microsoft Australia at Microsoft for Startups
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolKatherine Tran is a senior Cloud & AI architect and technology leader based in Sydney with a 20+ year engineering background and eight years focused on cloud solution architecture and partner acceleration across APAC. At Microsoft she has driven cloud and generative AI strategy for startups and enterprise partners, built ISV enablement frameworks, and led app modernization and well‑architected initiatives that sped time‑to‑market. Her career spans leadership roles from VP of Engineering at Lazada to engineering management at NAB and product-oriented development at SAP, blending hands‑on architecture with team building and delivery. Katherine pairs technical depth in Azure, AKS, serverless and DevOps with commercial GTM and marketplace integration experience, and she mentors startups through Microsoft for Startups. An MBA graduate with a history of building high‑performance offshore teams, she is equally comfortable sketching an optimized cloud architecture or rolling up her sleeves to implement CI/CD and infrastructure as code.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General, High Honors, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General, High Honors at Golden Gate UniversityE-Learning, Technical skills, profressional skills, Certification of completion, E-Learning, Technical skills, profressional skills, Certification of completion at pluralsightE-learning, data science, machine learning, R, python, Certification of completion, E-learning, data science, machine learning, R, python, Certification of completion at DataCampBachelor of Science - BS, Computer science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer science at Bach Khoa University (fomerly Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology)E-Learning, Leadership, Technical skills, Certification of completion, E-Learning, Leadership, Technical skills, Certification of completion at Lynda.com
english (ielts 7.0 - 2022), chinese (cantonese, mandarin), Vietnamese
Github Skills (37)
evaluation8
cml7
machine-learning7
saas7
sdk7
data-models7
python7
version-control7
azure6
developer-tools6
unstructured-data6
docker6
azure-functions6
prompt6
collaboration5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
DevOp-With-Github/nodejs-containerized-webapp
Jun 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:19 PRs, 68 pushes, 7 branches in 19 days
DevOp-With-Github/platform-test
Nov 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:62 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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