Ryan Tran is a software engineer with nine years of experience building data pipelines, automation, and ML workflows for high-impact scientific and AI projects. Currently a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI, he previously supported fusion ignition design at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory by developing Python/C++ libraries and infrastructure that integrated with physicists' workflows. He holds a BS in Computer Science from UC Santa Cruz (3.91 GPA) and an MS from UC San Diego, and has hands-on experience visualizing and hierarchically decomposing massive graphs for research applications. Comfortable across systems, visualization, and machine learning tooling, he brings a research-first mindset to production engineering—unconventionally fluent in Scheme and attentive to building reproducible, scientist-friendly software.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of California, San Diego - Jacobs School of Engineering
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.91, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.91 at University of California, Santa Cruz - Jack Baskin School of Engineering
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