Hi, I’m Brian Tran, a Staff Software Engineer with over a decade building scalable mobile and frontend experiences. I specialize in Swift and SwiftUI for iOS, cross-platform development with React Native, and architectural patterns that deliver fast, reliable user experiences. I also enjoy integrating AI-driven features into product workflows and rapidly prototyping ideas into polished software. In remote, fast-paced environments, I take ownership, mentor teammates, and focus on delivering measurable impact like performance improvements, robust test coverage, and scalable deployments.

Brian Tran

Hi, I’m Brian Tran, a Staff Software Engineer with over a decade building scalable mobile and frontend experiences. I specialize in Swift and SwiftUI for iOS, cross-platform development with React Native, and architectural patterns that deliver fast, reliable user experiences. I also enjoy integrating AI-driven features into product workflows and rapidly prototyping ideas into polished software. In remote, fast-paced environments, I take ownership, mentor teammates, and focus on delivering measurable impact like performance improvements, robust test coverage, and scalable deployments.

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Hi, I’m Brian Tran, a Staff Software Engineer with over a decade building scalable mobile and frontend experiences. I specialize in Swift and SwiftUI for iOS, cross-platform development with React Native, and architectural patterns that deliver fast, reliable user experiences. I also enjoy integrating AI-driven features into product workflows and rapidly prototyping ideas into polished software.

In remote, fast-paced environments, I take ownership, mentor teammates, and focus on delivering measurable impact like performance improvements, robust test coverage, and scalable deployments.

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Language

English
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Work Experience

Staff Software Engineer at Vanta
November 1, 2023 - December 1, 2025
As a Staff Software Engineer, I advised on leveraging Next.js and React to build a lightweight e-commerce experience for non-technical users. I led stakeholder workshops that improved UI/UX clarity by about 40%, guided secure payment integration with Stripe, and refined the checkout flow for reliability. I assessed mobile responsiveness and cross-browser compatibility, boosting engagement by 25%. I collaborated on wireframes and prototypes to validate concepts, enabling a 20% faster development cycle, and promoted code organization and maintainability practices that raised team efficiency by 30% while reducing frontend bugs by 15%.
Founding Software Engineer at Bedrock Security
June 1, 2022 - November 1, 2023
As founding software engineer, I built responsive, accessible trading interfaces with React and Next.js, and led the development of secure on-chain and off-chain transaction systems to improve reliability and user trust. I directed cross-platform mobile app efforts, created reusable frontend components to improve maintainability and scalability by 35%, and implemented frontend performance optimizations that reduced load times by 20%.
Software Engineer at Stripe
August 1, 2020 - January 1, 2022
At Stripe, I built and optimized money movement and compliance flows for Stripe Issuing and Stripe Treasury, ensuring secure, user-friendly payment processes. I also enhanced UI designs for financial products, improving end-user usability and accelerating onboarding and transaction flows.
Staff Software Engineer at Flexport
July 1, 2018 - August 1, 2020
I overhauled UI/UX for Flexport’s ocean freight logistics product, aligning engineering with business needs. I redesigned shipment tracking interfaces to resolve data quality issues and delivered engineering roadmaps focused on frontend scalability and maintainability.
Staff Software Engineer at Pinterest
March 1, 2014 - June 1, 2018
Led the Growth Activation team, increasing user activation rates through optimized A/B testing and user interface improvements. I also contributed to frontend and backend solutions that boosted engagement and retention and mentored engineers in frontend best practices.
Software Engineer at Box
July 1, 2010 - February 1, 2014
Built and optimized Box's analytics infrastructure, enabling self-service data access for business teams, and delivered a 3x performance improvement in Hadoop jobs, significantly reducing hardware costs.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
September 1, 2005 - June 1, 2009
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
September 1, 2005 - June 1, 2009
Bachelor of Science at University of California, Berkeley
September 1, 2005 - June 1, 2009
Bachelor of Science at University of California, Berkeley
September 1, 2005 - June 1, 2009

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Financial Services, Media & Entertainment, Retail, Professional Services