Summary
Steve Tran is a principal consultant and seasoned middleware engineer with 11+ years driving cloud-native modernization, migrations, and security-first application development at Red Hat. He blends hands-on Java and J2EE expertise with full-stack insight—from early cloud infrastructure and big data work to contemporary OpenShift and container-native architectures—and reliably scales from solo contributor to trusted advisor for enterprise teams. A long-time open-source champion and committer (including OpenShift and Teiid), he prefers technical problem solving over people management and enjoys mentoring peers through practical, vendor-agnostic solutions. Notably, he helped build cloud infrastructure before PaaS and containers were mainstream, giving him rare operational perspective alongside his consulting craft.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at American University
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at James Madison University