Thaw Tran

THAW TRAN

Senior Software Engineer

RubyPythonJavaScriptDartAI
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About Me

I'm a passionate software engineer with over 10 years of experience building scalable applications and monitoring production systems. My journey spans from co-founding and scaling a SaaS platform that served 10k+ clients to working with industry leaders like Uber on global car-sharing platforms.

Currently, I'm exploring the frontiers of AI, LLMs, and Agents as a SoloFounder at Pando and Lily, LLC, where I've built real-world AI applications. I thrive on solving complex technical challenges and have extensive experience in system design, database optimization, application monitoring, and building robust, production-ready applications.

I've open-sourced CanvasMCPClient, and currently building in public VISONA.

Coding is my passion — I love the problem-solving aspect, the continuous learning, and the satisfaction of building something that makes a real impact. Whether it's optimizing database performance by 30%, managing zero-downtime deployments, or architecting new features from scratch, I approach every project with enthusiasm and attention to detail.

Technologies & Tools

AI Agents
Ruby on Rails
CrewAI
Langchain
PostgreSQL
PgBouncer
Loki & Grafana
Sentry
DevOps
n8n
Flutter
Docker
AWS
MongoDB
Ruby AI
WebSocket
Python
MCP
Vector DB
AI Memory

Experience

PANDO AND LILY, LLC

SoloFounder

Learnt a lot about AI, LLMs, Agents, and was trying to build a business as a solopreneur. I built and launched Paperboy News, Datumize AI, open-sourced CanvasMCPClient, and building in public VISONA.

01/2025 - Present

AILLMsPythonRuby on RailsNginxPostgreSQLPgBouncerSolid QueueLokiGrafanaDockerSolid CableKubernetesMCPQdrantNeo4jmem0

UBER CARSHARE

Remote senior full-stack engineer

Australian car-sharing application originally named Car Next Door. I joined the company before it was rebranded and integrated to Uber Carshare.
  • Part of Vanguards team, driving projects that increased car bookings
  • Contributed to the project which transform everything to new brand name
  • Joined a core team that refactor core services and integrate with Uber's ecosystem
  • Joined Marketplace squad that focus on rebuilding the whole pricing platform
  • Learnt how to design readable, stable & scaleable services

02/2022 - 07/2024

Ruby on RailsPostgreSQLFlutterStimulusSidekiqAWSSentryDatadog

DESIGNFILES

Remote senior full-stack engineer

SaaS application that helps designers creating moodboards, floorplans, 3D renderings, so their clients can easily visualize their space.
  • Developed advanced rendering techniques for 2D & 3D designs with pure Javascript & Canvas
  • Upgraded and migrated the database from MySQL & ElasticSearch to PostgreSQL
  • Led and managed a lot of core features
  • Reviewed other developers' PRs

09/2020 - 04/2022

Ruby on RailsPostgreSQLJavaScriptCSSMySQLDocker

BOOST

Co-Founder & CTO

Digital marketing SaaS that I built and managed from scratch. We sold it to a US company.
  • Served 10k+ clients
  • Managed zero-downtime deployment across 6 load-balanced servers and 3 MongoDB instances
  • Created white-label feature by building a separate NodeJS microservice providing native SSL certificates

01/2018 - 05/2021

MeteorJavaScriptjQueryMongoDBNodeJS

GLOLENT

Remote part-time backend Ruby engineer

Portal for remote freelance developers, working as a back-end Ruby on Rails developer.
  • Built scraping tool with RoR, Selenium, Capybara, to collect jobs and developers information

06/2019 - 02/2020

Ruby on RailsGraphQLPostgreSQLReactJS

MINERVA

Remote full-stack Ruby on Rails engineer

Japanese advertising management application with new marketing technologies like Tag management, Data management, CookieSync, Cross-device marketing solutions.
  • Handled data with BigQuery
  • Configured Kubernetes for monitoring and deployment

01/2018 - 05/2019

Ruby on RailsGoogle CloudBigQueryKubernetesMySQL

COORDISNAP

Back-end Ruby on Rails engineer

Social networking for fashion lovers with 3.5+ million mobile downloads and 1+ million active users monthly.
  • Maintained API by benchmarking codes, refactoring and re-indexing database, increasing service performance by 30%
  • Improved unit tests and released new API version
  • Experienced pair programming and code reviewing

04/2016 - 01/2018

Ruby on RailsRSpecMySQLMemcacheElasticsearchAWS