Son Tran

CTO

Tokyo, Japan3 yrs experience

Key Highlights

Led technical strategy for a SaaS platform.
Scaled engineering teams across multiple countries.
Developed innovative blockchain solutions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS expert with strong blockchain and cloud computing skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

Solution ArchitectureCloud ComputingRuby On RailsNode.jsMicroservicesBlockchain EngineeringMachine Learning

Other Skills

TypeScriptSystem DesignMySQLRubygRPCJavaScriptAmazon Web Services (AWS)Amazon EKSREST APIBitcoinCryptocurrencyBack-End Web DevelopmentServer SideKubernetesGo (Programming Language)

About

Love building team and product. - X: https://x.com/sontbv - Threads: https://www.threads.com/@sontbv

Experience

3 yrs

Total Experience

1 yr 1 mo

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Money forward, inc.

4 roles

Founding member & CTO, Money Forward i

Promoted

Sep 2020 – Dec 2025 · 5 yrs 3 mos

Decided technical strategy and designed the entire SaaS management platform following event-driven microservices architecture
Scaled diverse engineering team from 0 to ~20 (peak time) with members from 8 countries
Created the hiring process from scratch. Hired and mentored middle, and senior software engineers
Partnered with other CxO to create product/business vision/strategy
[WIP] Delivering Admina to the global market

TypeScriptCloud ComputingSolution ArchitectureNode.jsSystem DesignRuby on Rails+17

Software Engineer, CTO Office

Promoted

May 2019 – Jan 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos

Internal engineering metric visualization tool: Sync ~800 repositories from Github and generate 20~ million metric records to help CTO and VPoE have better insight for whole company engineer’s performance (300+ engineers). Decided engineering metrics, tech stack used inside team, trained and mentored intern engineers. Tech stack: Ruby on Rails, Nuxtjs, Kubenetes, ArgoCD, AWS Aurora (MySQL), CircleCI, Terraform
Built internal pdf generation microserivce which is being used in many Money Forward B2B services. Write API document, communicate and help other teams integrate with my microservice. Tech stack: Nodejs (Typescript), MySQL, Mocha (Unit Test), Chai. Intrastructure stack included Docker, Kubernetes (AWS EKS), CircleCI, ArgoCD with monitoring stack was Grafana/Prometheus/Loki.

Ruby on RailsNuxtjsKubernetesArgoCDAWS Aurora (MySQL)CircleCI+10

Blockchain Engineer

Jun 2018 – May 2019 · 11 mos

Cryptocurrency exchange platform. Designed and implemented a secure Wallet system.
Techstack: Golang, gRPC, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Parity.
Blockchain Voting App. The mobile app was used at MoneyForward Expo@2018 - the event had around 3000 participates. The project aims to explore the potential of Blockchain inside MoneyForward, we used HyperLedger Iroha - a private blockchain to build a network that had 4 nodes. Each node connects with others by RPC.

GolanggRPCBitcoinBitcoin CashEthereumParity+2

Software Engineer Intern

Jan 2018 – Aug 2018 · 7 mos

Working as Ruby On Rails Engineer to build MoneyForward Mall - Comparison of financial products.
Teckstack: Rails, MySQL, Bootstrap, SCSS.

Ruby on RailsMySQLBootstrapSCSS

Udemy

Instructor

Nov 2017 – Nov 2018 · 1 yr

I teach and help more than 15000 students from all over the world to learn to code. Especially focus on Ruby On Rails and Android.
Here are my courses:
RESTful API with Ruby On Rails 5: Learn how to use Ruby On Rails 5 to build a professional REST API Server
Advanced Android: Create a Real-REST API Client Application: Quick Course to learn how to build a beautiful Wallpaper Android App with Retrofit, GSON, Realm, ButterKnife, Glide

Careervina

Lead Engineer

Jul 2017 – Nov 2017 · 4 mos

Vietnamese low-class workers don't have much choice for their working because of the lack of transparency about the working environment, benefit, salary. We made Glassdoor version Vietnamese.
Lead engineer team to design and implement an android application with Ruby On Rails as a server-side framework.
Team size: 3 engineers
Tech stack: Java Android, Ruby On Rails, Heroku, PostgreSQL

Java AndroidRuby On RailsHerokuPostgreSQLRuby on Rails