# Ken Tran > 💻 🐵 Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kentran Senior Software Engineer searching for new opportunities. EXPERIENCE Disney Streaming Services, San Francisco — Senior Software Engineer April 2017 - April 2023 Client App Development, Living Room Devices. Build and maintain multiple client applications for diverse brands including ESPN+, Disney+, Hulu, Star, MLB, WWE, and Eurosport. Clarify, negotiate, and implement business requirements on a range of concerns including GUI construction, content search and retrieval, media playback, DRM management, behavior and performance analytics, user authentication/authorization, and in-app purchasing. Create and provide support for a bespoke state management framework that was adopted team-wide to improve code maintenance and legibility. ESPN+ Application Platform Port. Co-lead a 9-month effort to redevelop and seamlessly deploy a ground-up rewrite of a production app with millions of users. Manage a remote contract developer team to ensure adherence to coding standards and business requirements. Provide onboarding and troubleshooting onto a bespoke platform while simultaneously providing individual contribution. Provide emergency support during important live events such as UFC PPV. Native Client Platform. Develop and deploy a bespoke media playback application platform for multi-platform deployment. Contribute to tooling selection, platform integration, and ADK development. Brainstorm high-level architectural strategies and build prototypes leveraging open-source platforms such as Godot (game engine) and Chakra (JS engine). Widevine DRM PS4. Skunkworks project to investigate DRM integration on Sony Playstation 4. Construction of a C++/Javascript interop for method/object-binding and garbage collection. App Academy, San Francisco — Instructor January 2016 - April 2017 Develop course materials for an intensive program teaching full-stack web development to 500+ students annually on a Ruby on Rails, SQL, Javascript, and React stack. Lead introduction of ES6 and Redux into the App Academy curriculum. Selected for position as top-of-class graduate. SKILL SETS Streaming Media Applications Cross-Platform Development Web Applications Responsive Design Framework Development User Analytics LANGUAGES AND TOOLS Rust/Cargo C#/ Nuke/.NET/ Mono/UWP PlayStation/Trilithium/Orbis React/Redux Javascript/NPM/Webpack HTML/CSS Conviva Adobe Analytics C++ Ruby/Ruby on Rails Docker SQL/PostgreSQL Visual Studio GraphQL Godot WebAssembly EDUCATION University of Michigan, Ann Arbor - Juris Doctor (2010) University of Texas, Austin - B.A. (2006) ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Meta Jan 2024 – Present | Menlo Park, California, United States SMB Retention Workstream Lead, Ads Growth. Own a small- and medium- sized advertiser retention initiative that develops user-facing, data-driven experiments driving millions of new users monthly. Lead a cross-functional team with data science, design, and junior engineers to deliver complex, ambiguous projects with timeliness and precision. Negotiate ambiguity and conflicting interests with external stakeholders. Build data pipelines to support custom audience targeting for A/B testing. Develop SQL queries and dashboards to monitor running experiments and make ship decisions. Maintain deep technical knowledge through individual contribution, mentorship, code and architecture review, and better engineering efforts. Deliver mission-critical updates to the Facebook app to meet high-urgency regulatory and business requirements. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Disney Streaming Services, LLC Jan 2016 – Jan 2023 | United States Client App Development, Living Room Devices. Build and maintain multiple client applications for diverse brands including ESPN+, Disney+, Hulu, Star, MLB, WWE, and Eurosport. Clarify, negotiate, and implement business requirements on a range of concerns including GUI construction, content search and retrieval, media playback, DRM management, behavior and performance analytics, user authentication/authorization, and in-app purchasing. Create and provide support for a bespoke state management framework that was adopted team-wide to improve code maintenance and legibility. ESPN+ Application Platform Port. Co-lead a 9-month effort to redevelop and seamlessly deploy a ground-up rewrite of a production app with millions of users. Manage a remote contract developer team to ensure adherence to coding standards and business requirements. Provide onboarding and troubleshooting onto a bespoke platform while simultaneously providing individual contribution. Provide emergency support during important live events such as UFC PPV. Native Client Platform. Develop and deploy a bespoke media playback application platform for multi-platform deployment. Contribute to tooling selection, platform integration, and ADK development. Brainstorm high-level architectural strategies and build prototypes leveraging open-source platforms such as Godot (game engine) and Chakra (JS engine). Widevine DRM PS4. Skunkworks project to investigate DRM integration on Sony Playstation 4. Construction of a C++/Javascript interop for method/object-binding and garbage collection. ### Web Development Instructor and Software Engineer @ App Academy Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco, CA Develop course materials for an intensive program teaching full-stack web development to 500+ students annually on a Ruby on Rails, SQL, Javascript, and React stack. Lead introduction of ES6 and Redux into the App Academy curriculum. Selected for position as top-of-class graduate. ## Education ### B.A. in Anthropology and Philosophy The University of Texas at Austin Jan 2002 – Jan 2006 ### Graduate in Web Development Course App Academy Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 ### J.D. University of Michigan Law School Jan 2007 – Jan 2010 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/loschorts --- Source: https://flows.cv/kentran JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kentran/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22