Thach Tran is a seasoned software engineer and tech lead with 16 years of experience building high-performance backend and server applications, currently contributing to the Google Assistant SDK in San Jose. He brings deep expertise in systems programming and distributed real-time services, having led development of Cisco’s cloud voice/video conferencing platform and worked on VoIP call-control systems using C/C++, Python, Java and Erlang. Comfortable across paradigms, he favors robust, event-driven architectures on Unix/Linux and has hands-on experience fixing production bugs in major open-source projects like Apache Traffic Server. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem solver who balances low-level protocol work (RTP, SIP, HTTP) with microservice design and operational reliability. His background spans academic foundations in the UK and early open-source contributions (Scribus via Google Summer of Code), reflecting a long-standing commitment to both engineering craft and community impact.
16 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at University of Nottingham
Master of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at University of Warwick
N/A, Computer Science, N/A, Computer Science at International University, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City
Apache Traffic Server™ is a fast, scalable and extensible HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 compliant caching proxy server.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:6 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Thach contributed to the Apache Traffic Server project by fixing bugs and improving the code. Their work included addressing an issue with remap plugin evaluation, correcting an invalid argument passed from traffic_manager, and resolving a domain expansion problem in DNS lookups. Furthermore, the user fixed a bug related to URL remap method filtering and corrected the handling of response bodies in the old API.
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