Tien Tran
Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTien Tran is a software engineer with a decade of experience building scalable, production-grade systems, currently contributing to Amazon Elastic Container Registry at AWS. He brings deep distributed-systems and infrastructure expertise from roles at IMO Messenger—where he helped run a cloud push service handling ~500M pushes daily and built AES-encrypted phonebook and premium-payment subsystems—and from academic research in wireless networks. Tien is comfortable across backend, DevOps, and storage technologies, having automated E2E testing and infrastructure for the open-source blox project for ECS schedulers. He holds advanced degrees (MS and PhD-level work) in Computer Science from UT Dallas and blends rigorous research training with hands-on operational experience. Quietly meticulous, he often focuses on test automation and licensing/build consistency issues that improve long-term maintainability.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, 3.90, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, 3.90 at The University of Texas at DallasBachelor's degree (honor), Computer Science, Bachelor's degree (honor), Computer Science at Ho Chi Minh City University of Science
Vietnamese, English
Github Skills (12)
infrastructure-as-code10
automation10
automations10
aws10
amazon-ecs10
cicd10
dockers9
go9
docker9
kubernetes8
kubernetes-pods8
testing8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
blox/blox
Dec 2016 - Mar 2017
Open source tools for building custom schedulers on Amazon ECS
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:11 commits, 17 PRs, 6 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Tien's contributions primarily focused on automating and streamlining the setup and management of the "blox" project's infrastructure. They addressed issues related to the build process, specifically concerning license file consistency. Further contributions involved improvements to the E2E test setup for the Cluster State Service (CSS) and Daemon Scheduler (DS), automating essential aspects. Additionally, the user corrected issues in the list instances step within the CSS E2E tests.
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tuedtran/blox
Dec 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 36 pushes, 17 branches in 3 months
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