Thai Tran
Senior Software Engineer at Arcade
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThai Tran is a pragmatic full-stack software engineer and technical lead with 12 years of experience building scalable web and data systems, currently leading Optim Data Intelligence at IBM. He blends front-end craftsmanship—evidenced by notable contributions to the OpenStack Horizon dashboard—with backend engineering and data-driven product work, including recommendation engines, real-time dashboards, and large-scale data migrations. Thai has driven migrations from legacy PHP to modern Node/React stacks and improved developer pipelines and analytics across IBM and The Weather Company, reaching millions of users with embedded widgets and tools. An avid AI enthusiast who experiments with reinforcement learning and LLMs, he pairs curiosity about cutting-edge models with a strong pragmatic focus on production reliability. Outside of work he channels creativity into video game projects and pick-up basketball, reflecting a maker’s mindset and attention to detail.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bachelor's degree Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at San José State University
English
Github Skills (9)
html10
css10
javascript10
web-development10
front-end-development10
angularjs10
ui-design9
interface-design9
user-interface9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/horizon
Jan 2014 - Nov 2016
OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:118 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Thai primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the OpenStack Horizon dashboard, focusing on improving the user interface and user experience. Their commits involved fixing CSS issues to enhance the layout, modifying JavaScript to improve table behavior, adding icons, and incorporating new features like a context selector for projects and regions. The user also worked on addressing bugs and general clean up, including a full refactoring of the modal forms.
horizonopendevopenstackdashboardenterprise
tqtran7/snakeoil
Apr 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:1 PR, 19 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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