Alvin Tran

About Alvin Tran

I\'m a software engineer with 10+ years experience in the industry. Currently, I\'m a Software Engineer at Meta, having worked in spaces like Messenger, GenAI, and currently infrastructure. Before that, I was full-stack developer at Redfin, helping create features that drive buyer and owner engagement on our website.

Experience

1. Staff Software Engineer

   Meta

   Mar 2023 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Level is also known as E6Demand Responsive Systems (Sept 2024 - Present)- Tech Lead for newly-formed Demand Responsive Systems team, responsible for services that automate efficient resource usage and capacity management for Meta\'s Core Data platforms- Prototyped quota recommendation service on a Core Data platform; enabled two Product Groups to free $3.67M worth of potential capacity.AI Studio (July 2023 - Sept 2024)- this team worked on one of the early product efforts in Meta\'s newly-formed Generative AI org. I focused on tech-leading the backend/API development on the team- My team was responsible for the \"Chat with AI Characters\" feature on Messenger/WhatsApp/ Instagram, which shipped to the US on September 2023- On July 2024, my team shipped AI Studio, allowing users to create, interact with, and share their own AIs. Information can be seen here: https://ai.meta.com/ai-studio/Messenger Web Foundations (Mar 2023 - Jun 2023)- Tech Lead on the Messenger Web Foundations team, working on E2EE Messenger on Web Infrastructure, until June 2023

Education

• University of Waterloo

  BSE, Software Engineering

  2009 — 2014

Skills

• C#
• Oop
• Web Applications
• Git
• Subversion
• Mysql
• Test Driven Development
• Android
• Bash
• Design Patterns
• Javascript
• Structured Programming
• Mongodb
• Html
• Web Development
• C++
• Backbone.js
• Unix
• Mobile Applications
• Css
• Software Development
• Python
• Mips
• Linux
• User Interface Design
• React.js
• Assembly Language
• C
• Programming
• Vim
• Java
• Software Design
• Software Engineering
• Redis
• Visual Studio