Lionel Tran

Fullstack Software Engineer with 5 years of experience — transitioning into Platform Engineering and DevOps. I design, build, and ship production-grade systems end-to-end: from React frontends and Node.js/Python APIs to Kubernetes infrastructure and cloud-native pipelines on AWS.

I thrive in startup and scale-up environments where engineers own the full lifecycle — code, infra, and reliability.

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🧱 Engineering

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• Backend: Node.js (Express), Python (FastAPI), REST APIs, microservices architecture

• Frontend: React.js, Next.js, TypeScript, component-driven design

• Databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis (caching, pub/sub, queues)

• Messaging: Kafka, Redis Streams — event-driven architectures

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☁️ Cloud & Infrastructure

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• AWS: EKS, EC2, S3, RDS, ECR, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch

• Containers & orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm

• IaC: Terraform — provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure

• GitOps: ArgoCD — declarative deployments, drift detection, self-healing clusters

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🔁 DevOps & Reliability

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• CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI — automated build, test, and deploy pipelines

• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana — metrics, alerting, SLO dashboards

• Networking: Nginx, reverse proxy, load balancing, TLS termination

• Security: IAM policies, secrets management (AWS Secrets Manager / Vault), least-privilege design

• Linux: system administration, bash scripting, process management

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💡 How I work

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I bridge the gap between development and operations. My fullstack background makes me a better infra engineer — I understand what developers need, which means faster feedback loops, smarter pipelines, and systems that teams actually want to