# Benjamin Tran > Software Engineer @ Aven Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/benjamintran ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Aven Jan 2025 – Present | Campbell, California, United States Lowering the cost of capital πŸ’° ### Software Engineer @ Aven Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | Santa Clara, California, United States Second engineer on Aven Advisor, scaling the product and building core features using Vue, React Native, TypeScript, and PostgreSQL. ### iOS Engineer @ Faire Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 β€’ Created a networking component to support file uploads using URLSession complete with upload progress, multi-part POST requests to support large files, error handling and unit tests. β€’ Lead development of a feature which allows retailers to leave reviews for wholesalers. ### iOS Developer @ theScore Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Remote β€’ Reduced the run time of the Github Actions CI build pipelines. β€’ Worked on various UI improvements including complex custom UICollectionView animations for theScore’s iOS betting app using SwiftUI. β€’ Reduced Xcode unit testing time through the use of multi threading ### Full Stack Engineer @ NERVY Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Waterloo, Ontario, Canada β€’ Built a real time messaging service which allowed users to message each other using Socket.IO on a Python Flask backend complete with support for video and picture messages. β€’ Built a TikTok style vertical scrolling video feed in Swift native iOS which allowed users to like and message other users. β€’ Built a fully featured video camera on native iOS using AVFoundation and Metal with the ability to add music, text and filters along with dynamic FPS adjustment based on current lighting conditions. ### Software Developer @ Self-employed Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Toronto, Canada Area - Developed and deployed Android and iOS app for school board's grading system with over 16k daily active users and a market share of over 75% of all students in York Region District School Board - Decreased loading times by a factor of 5 compared to the existing app by minimizing network requests and using dynamic programming methodology - Built responsive UI, with both a light and dark theme - Provided continued support and optimizations through updates by using Firebase to diagnose bugs in production and integrating user requested features - Developed both local and push notification systems that informs students of any changes in their course average ### Software Developer @ Self-employed Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Toronto, Canada Area - Co-built and maintained a codebase for an online store centered around a Discord community - Focused mainly on integrating payment systems such as Paypal and various crypto currencies along with ensuring server-side network stability for over 150k customers - Maintained and optimized Python codebase to scale with increased user load - Fixed issues and bugs in production in a timely and responsive manner ### Lead Programmer for Team 6513 @ FIRST Robotics Canada Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Toronto, Canada Area - Co developed the robot code base for team 6513 2 years in a row - Taught many team members various aspects of the WPILIB library which was used for robot control - Helped implement robot vision and autonomous path-finding - Debugged and wrote lots of code in stressful and time sensitive environments (Day of competition, in between matches, etc.) ### Cashier @ Metro Inc. Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Toronto, Canada Area ## Education ### Bachelor of Computer Science - BCS in Honours, Co-op University of Waterloo Jan 2020 – Jan 2025 ### High School Diploma in High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates Woodbridge college Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/benltran --- Source: https://flows.cv/benjamintran JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/benjamintran/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-20