Kelly Tran
Chief Builder at kocanaX, now creatin’ “HUMAN + AI CO-CREATION COLLECTION”
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKelly Tran is a serial founder and technologist with 15+ years building and transforming digital businesses across Vietnam and the US, who has launched and exited multiple venture-backed companies and scaled products used by millions. As a "Chief Builder" and operator she closes the loop between product, growth, and operations—driving $100M+ P&Ls, leading digital transformations at market leaders like Techcombank and Pizza 4P's, and advising groups such as Sovico and Openasia. She combines hands-on engineering roots (mobile/web product development and front-end curriculum contributions to GDI SF) with investor-facing experience, fundraising $8M+ and earning admissions to top accelerators including Y Combinator and 500 Startups. Known for simplifying ambiguity and forming high-performance teams, she focuses on human-centered innovation now exploring Human+AI co-creation in her latest venture.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering, Engineering at Stanford UniversityExecutive Education, Design Thinking, Executive Education, Design Thinking at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyExecutive Education, Business Process Design for Strategic Management, Executive Education, Business Process Design for Strategic Management at MIT Sloan School of ManagementMS, BS, Computer Science, Mathematics (Minor), MS, BS, Computer Science, Mathematics (Minor) at University of Oklahoma
Vietnamese
Github Skills (6)
html10
css10
ed255199
mat9
develop9
javascript3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
gdisf/teaching-materials
Jul 2016 - Mar 2019
GDI SF - Web Development and Programming Curriculum
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:32 commits, 18 PRs, 20 pushes in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Kelly primarily contributed to the GDI SF teaching materials repository by adding and modifying HTML and CSS curriculum content. Their work involved adding HTML and CSS curriculum files, fixing typos, adjusting slide headings and exercise steps, and merging code changes. The user's modifications focused on structuring the content and improving the presentation of the curriculum materials.
curriculumworkshop-materialsjqueryworkshopcss
kellybelly/eva-and-rafa
Feb 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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