Summary
Lena Tran is an Engineer I at Spotify with a decade of experience building tooling, integrations, and platform success solutions across media, audio advertising, and digital marketing. She blends backend Python/Django and SQL expertise with JavaScript and Ruby to deliver analytics-driven tooling, complemented by visualization skills in Tableau and Looker. Her background spans startup-to-acquisition journeys (Podsights → Spotify) and hands-on ad ops and growth analytics at Cadence13, giving her a pragmatic product-minded approach to platform problems. Based in San Francisco, she pairs curiosity about data with an eye for operational reliability and a penchant for craft beer and Harry Potter trivia—small personal details that often make her a memorable collaborator.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Integrative Biology: Ecology Evolution and Organismal Biology, Bachelor's Degree Integrative Biology: Ecology Evolution and Organismal Biology at University of California, Berkeley
UC Berkeley Extension
Vietnamese, English, Spanish