John L. Tran
John L. Tran
Software Engineer
I build fast, scalable, and thoughtful software. Passionate about developer tooling, web performance, and systems that don't break at 3am.
open to opportunities
experience
Meta Platforms
Jan 2022 - Present
Senior Software Engineer
  • Large-Scale Trust & Safety Infrastructure: Led engineering for Project Cannes (Youth Protections), coordinating product, ML, and infra workstreams to deploy safety features for 500M+ users.
  • Adversarial AI & Incident Response: Served as IMOC, driving rapid remediation for SEV1 vulnerabilities and mitigating multi-vector adversarial attacks against core systems.
  • AI-Native Engineering Leadership: Championed AI-assisted development (Claude, DevMate) across the org, achieving 70%+ WAU. Automated complex codemods, generated system diagrams, and accelerated incident RCA.
  • System Optimization & Migration: Spearheaded the migration and deprecation of high-traffic legacy endpoints, establishing strict development policies that reduced technical debt, improved Time-to-Mitigate (TTM) metrics, and drove $465k/year in compute cost savings.
  • Continuous Web Infrastructure: Developed features for WWW Multitenancy, optimizing Continuous Web infrastructure to securely and reliably deploy code to production at massive scale.
    • Walmart Global Tech
    Jun 2021 — Jan 2022
    Software Engineer II
  • Backend System Scalability: Implemented a scalable backend FAAS system powering nationwide omni-channel retail, enabling seamless customer order and pickup routing across thousands of store locations.
  • Code Quality & Reliability: Identified and executed architectural solutions to improve overall system design and codebase maintainability.
  • Testing & CI/CD: Conducted rigorous unit and integration testing pipelines, establishing continuous delivery practices to ensure high-efficiency deployments.
    • education
    University of Texas, Austin
    Expected 2026
    M.S. Computer Science
    Relevant coursework: Machine Learning, Advanced Deep Learning, NLP, Optimization, Deep Generative Models
    University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
    2018 — 2021
    B.S. Computer Science
    skills
    TypeScript React Node.js Python PostgreSQL AWS Docker GraphQL CI/CD System Design
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