Ai Tran

Data Architect at Chord Energy

Greater Houston

About

A results-oriented backend software engineer with 10+ years of industry experience. Highly adept at building scalable, low latency, resilient, and maintainable software systems using agile development methodology in dynamic, fast-paced environment, coordinating among competing stakeholders, and balancing speed-to-value with best practices. Excellent communication skills with growth mindset. Life long learner.

Experience

  • Data Architect at Chord Energy
    May 2023 - Apr 2025 · 2 yrs

  • Senior Software Engineer, Backend at Perch
    Jan 2022 - Nov 2022 · 11 mos

    * Work closely with Product Managers to scope and drive product features for proprietary supply chain management platform. * Design and implement RESTful APIs; Investigate and address API performance issues; * Evaluate and integrate with third-party API. * Automated data processing system to reduce total invoice processing time by 15-20%.

  • Senior Software Engineer at Flightaware
    Oct 2016 - Dec 2021 · 5 yrs 3 mos

    Senior individual contributor supporting a suite of backend infrastructure systems, including flight data aggregator, realtime position interpreter, and flight tracking system. * Built distress alerting system for monitoring realtime position of aircraft anywhere in the world and notifying users when the aircraft experiences distress conditions * Revamped notification system into performant, scalable, and resilient system; improving system performance from 3 servers with 96 processes to 2 servers with 24 processes. * Improved accuracy of flight tracking systems by identifying impactful metrics and built solutions to mitigate them

  • Lead Back End Engineer at ChaiOne
    Nov 2015 - Oct 2016 · 1 yr

    * Served as backend technical lead to develop, design, and support RESTful web services with Microsoft .NET Web API framework, serving multi-platform clients. * Led and collaborated with project managers and business analysts to create, drive, and communicate overall architecture vision to support project delivery. * Introduced onion programming design following SOLID OO programming and design principles to make solution more testable, scalable, and maintainable while meeting complex business requirements.

  • Graduate Student at LSU
    Dec 2013 - Sep 2015 · 1 yr 10 mos

    Pursued a Master of Science in Systems Science with emphasis in machine learning and data mining. Developed high performance algorithm for analyzing big data in distributed environments to perform computational geometry operations using Python and Apache PySpark. Developed feature engineering algorithm in Python to analyze underwater imagery of plankton for developing plankton classification models. Built facial recognition system with neural networks using OpenCV and WEKA. Applied feature reduction for improving system performance.