Summary
Sol Tran is an engineering manager and former staff engineer with 12 years of experience building high-growth products across crypto, financial systems, and gaming from Silicon Valley. Based in Palo Alto, he has led cross-functional teams to ship consumer-facing NFT drops and gaming experiences that drove eight-figure revenue, while also architecting internal tools and infrastructure for minting, rendering, and wallet delegation. His background spans early-stage scaling (founding engineer roles at ShipHawk) to enterprise SaaS leadership at Rubrik where he drove cloud strategy and delivered multimillion-dollar ARR features. Sol combines hands-on technical depth in React, GraphQL, TypeScript, Scala and Go with org-building skills—having authored hiring processes, leveling rubrics, and individual development plans that grew engineers into senior and manager roles. Notably, he bridges product and engineering effectively, moving rapidly from prototype to production in both Web3 and traditional enterprise contexts.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Cupertino High
Master's Degree Computer Science & Engineering, Master's Degree Computer Science & Engineering at Santa Clara University
Vietnamese, English