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Eric Tran

@erictran1

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Staff Software Engineer specializing in scalable, reliable cloud-native systems.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek engineering roles where I can lead delivery of resilient, cloud-native systems, mentor teams, and improve observability and reliability in regulated environments.

I am a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years building high-performance web applications and distributed systems across healthcare startups and large platforms. I specialize in end-to-end development, owning user-facing interfaces, backend services, and cloud-native infrastructure to deliver reliable, compliant systems.

At Wheel Health I owned a HIPAA-compliant Kafka + WebSocket notification platform, led integrations with video, lab, and pharmacy providers, and improved observability and CI/CD to cut MTTR by ~30%. I mentor engineers, run post-incident reviews, and design concurrency-safe backend services that reduced scheduling errors by ~40%.

I bring broad technical depth across Python, TypeScript/Node, Go, Java, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), with hands-on experience in WebRTC, Kafka, Prometheus, Elasticsearch, and CI/CD. I focus on resilience, instrumentation, and practical engineering trade-offs to ship impactful, compliant products.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Staff Software Engineer

Wheel Health

Jul 2024 - Aug 2025 (1 year 1 month)

Owned a HIPAA-compliant Kafka + WebSocket notification platform enabling sub-second UI updates with persisted logs, DLQs, and retries; improved observability and CI/CD, cutting MTTR by ~30% and mentoring 8 engineers in a regulated healthcare environment.

Kafka WebSockets Python Go TypeScript Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry CI CD

Senior Full Stack Engineer

Wheel Health

Feb 2020 - Jul 2024 (4 years 5 months)

Developed clinician and patient portals with Next.js/TypeScript and real-time EHR sync; reduced scheduling errors ~40% via concurrency-safe backend services and optimized data stores to eliminate OLTP contention.

Next.js TypeScript Django fastAPI Redis PostgreSQL Elasticsearch Celery WebRTC

Senior Software Engineer

Airbnb

Jan 2018 - Feb 2020 (2 years 1 month)

Built resilient payment integrations (Stripe, PayPal, Adyen) with retries and idempotency reducing duplicate charges ~30% and architected search/caching infrastructure for sub-second queries under high traffic.

Stripe PayPal Redis Elasticsearch React GraphQL Airflow Spark Microservices

Software Engineer

Airbnb

Jun 2016 - Dec 2017 (1 year 6 months)

Implemented transaction-safe booking services with concurrency controls and asynchronous workers; automated reconciliation pipelines (Kafka/SQS → Airflow → Snowflake/Redshift) for financial and logistics data.

Java Python Kafka Airflow Postgres MySQL Snowflake Redshift

Frontend Developer

Airbnb

Sep 2014 - Jun 2016 (1 year 9 months)

Developed React components and SSR pages with Hypernova for listings and booking flows, improving SEO and UX, and built real-time interactive maps while expanding frontend test coverage.

React Hypernova JavaScript Backbone.Js Jest Playwright