About

Khoa Tran is an experienced software engineer with a passion for developing innovative solutions. Currently working at Mastercard, he has extensive experience in the tech industry, having worked with a range of companies in the past. Khoa's most recent role was at Quorum, where he led the development of Quorum International, expanding the company's reach to new markets. He also developed Quorum's immutable deployment pipeline, which allowed for multiple production deployments every day. Khoa built and maintained Quorum's full-text search functionality and created ChatOps tools to connect AWS Cloudwatch, PostgreSQL, OSSEC Intrusion Detection, and more with Slack. He fostered a DevOps culture at Quorum with CI/CD, frequent code review, and short release cycles. Khoa also designed coding challenges, interviewed full-time and intern applicants, and helped onboard junior backend engineers. Prior to his work at Quorum, Khoa was self-employed as a personal trainer. He formulated fitness and nutrition plans for weight loss, muscular development, and rehabilitation. Khoa also taught strength and conditioning warm-ups for Brazilian Jiujitsu and Thai boxing, holding certifications in NASM Certified Personal Trainer and Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED. He is currently working towards a Precision Nutrition Certification Level 1. Khoa holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He has a strong tech stack, including experience with AWS, CI/CD, DevOps, search, backend, Spark, and Docker. With almost 9 years of relevant experience, Khoa is a skilled and dedicated software engineer with a proven track record of success.