Andrea Tran

I’m a DevOps / Platform Engineer focused on designing, building, and operating production-grade systems with an emphasis on automation, reliability, cost optimization, and developer experience.

My work centers on Kubernetes and GitOps (Argo CD), end-to-end CI/CD (GitLab CI), and Infrastructure as Code with Terraform/Terragrunt and Pulumi—supported by Helm, Docker, and private cloud platforms like OpenNebula and k3s. I’ve also contributed to Golang-based platform development and strengthen observability using the LGTM stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir) plus AWS CloudWatch and X-Ray.

In recent roles, I maintained and enhanced production platforms (including redesigning API v2 and integrating backend services with Azure ML), standardized deployments with reusable Terraform modules and Helm charts, and built CI/CD and observability for services deployed on Amazon EKS. Earlier, I implemented GitOps workflows with Argo CD for safer releases, reduced non-production infrastructure costs by ~$1,000/month, built Kubernetes infrastructure components (including a CSI plugin), and created a secure VPN using Headscale with least-privilege access.