Ngoc-lam Tran is a software engineer with 11 years of experience based in Vietnam, specializing in backend development for cloud-native and distributed systems. He has hands-on expertise in Go and OpenTelemetry, having upgraded dependencies and refactored microservices in the widely used OpenTelemetry demo to improve tracing, Kafka integration, and graceful shutdowns. Comfortable working across service boundaries, he focuses on observability, reliability, and pragmatic refactoring to keep production systems maintainable. A University of Science (VNU-HCM) software engineering graduate, he combines deep technical practice with a knack for smoothing operational pain points that often go unnoticed until outages occur.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Software Engineering at University of Science, VNU-HCM
This repository contains the OpenTelemetry Astronomy Shop, a microservice-based distributed system intended to illustrate the implementation of OpenTelemetry in a near real-world environment.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:4 reviews, 27 PRs, 10 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Ngoc-lam primarily focused on updating and maintaining the Go-based microservices within the OpenTelemetry demo application. Their work included upgrading Go versions and OpenTelemetry dependencies across multiple services. They also refactored the checkout service, adding an interceptor for tracing Kafka messages and fixing shutdown and logging issues in other services.
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes in 3 years 2 months
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