Mason Tran
Senior Firmware Engineer at the LEGO Group
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolMason Tran is a Senior Firmware Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and shipping low-power embedded systems and wireless protocol stacks from product prototypes to production. Based in Boston, he has deep expertise in IEEE 802.15.4/Thread, having been an active maintainer of the OpenThread on EFR32 work at Silicon Labs and contributed platform-level radio and NVM improvements to Google’s widely used OpenThread project. His background spans consumer audio firmware at Bose—where he implemented high-throughput Bluetooth streaming and novel UX features—and medical-grade hearing aid platforms, giving him a strong mix of systems-level rigor and product-focused pragmatism. Known for reducing code size, improving energy efficiency for sleepy nodes, and creating practical developer tooling and docs, he bridges hardware constraints and developer ergonomics to accelerate delivery.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering at University of MinnesotaHigh School Degree, High School Degree at Prior Lake Savage High SchoolPSEO (Non-degree), PSEO (Non-degree) at Normandale Community College
English, Vietnamese, teochew chinese
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Github Skills (10)
c1710
openthread10
iot10
embedded10
driver10
c1110
sys10
sdk9
ieee9
wireless9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
openthread/openthread
Jul 2020 - Dec 2022
OpenThread released by Google is an open-source implementation of the Thread networking protocol
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:31 reviews, 30 commits, 54 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Mason primarily focused on enhancing the platform abstraction layer (PAL) for the EFR32 platform within the OpenThread repository. Their contributions included optimizing the radio driver for improved energy efficiency, specifically for sleepy nodes. The user also addressed critical issues related to non-volatile memory (NVM) operations, ensuring network stability and addressing an issue with channel monitoring. Furthermore, they updated the code to be compatible with newer SDK versions and implemented and tested various platform-specific features.
googlewirelessipv6networkingieee-802154
SiliconLabs/ot-efr32
Apr 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:15 reviews, 222 commits, 91 PRs in 1 year 6 months
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