ENGINEER
Software Engineer · San Francisco, CA
Andy Tran
Backend engineer. AI tinkerer. I build the systems that run quietly in the background and hold up when it matters.
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Backend engineer. AI tinkerer. I build the systems that run quietly in the background and hold up when it matters.
SF native. Software engineer who's spent the last few years building things that actually run in production: ad infrastructure for live TV at Red Bull Media House, enterprise pricing software at Supplyframe (now part of Siemens). Real problems, real scale, and yeah, things broke sometimes.
Lately I'm deep into AI tooling. Automating real workflows with Claude and Whisper, not just shipping demos. I like backend work that has to hold: data pipelines, streaming infra, systems where getting it wrong means a 3am page.
When I'm away from a keyboard I'm volunteering with MissionBit, teaching intro coding to SF high schoolers since 2019. Turns out explaining Git to a 16-year-old is harder than building a microservice. My 14-year-old dog Maddy keeps me grounded through all of it.
Supplyframe built software for the electronics supply chain, acquired by Siemens while I was there. I worked on the CPQ product: the pricing and quoting engine that enterprise distributors used to generate quotes across millions of components. When pricing logic breaks, deals break. Learned to care a lot about correctness.
ServusTV and Red Bull TV are live broadcasters streaming to millions of devices worldwide. I joined as the sole engineer responsible for the entire ad delivery layer: the system deciding what ad plays on what device, in what format, at what time, across 23 different platforms simultaneously. Live TV doesn't pause for bugs. Neither did I.
Took 2nd at the Soldier Front national tournament in 2009. One map away from first place and representing the United States at worlds in Thailand. Still think about it. From there: high school LoL team captain, IPL San Francisco qualifier, eventually Master tier. Twisted Fate one-trick. No regrets. Okay, maybe one.
Teaching intro coding to SF high schoolers since 2019, that's 100+ students across six years. Turns out explaining Git to a 16-year-old is harder than building a microservice, and I mean that as a compliment to both.
Been a Lakers fan since I watched Kobe and Shaq as a kid and never looked back. Luka + LeBron is the most fun this team's been in years and I genuinely think this is a title window. Yes I've been burned before. Yes I'm still watching every game. Some loyalties aren't rational.
Always looking for the next city. Domestic or international, doesn't matter. Every trip makes me a better engineer somehow, or at least that's what I tell myself.
I've been to Disney World once. Got curious about wait times, found a 7-year public dataset, and spent a weekend with a team of 4 building models that predict queue times by attraction, weather, and school calendar. The random forest outperformed linear regression by a lot, which was the most satisfying part.