# Steven Tran

> Software Engineer @ Meta

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/steventran

Interested in embedded devices, backend work, and some web/mobile (React [+Native]).

email: stevencstran[AT]gmail.com

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2024 – Present | Menlo Park, California, United States
Spark – data infra

### Software Engineer @ Verkada
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Mateo, California, United States
Embedded Device Platform: Yocto, Go, kernel & driver integration

### CSC148 Teaching Assistant (Introduction to Computer Programming) @ University of Toronto
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
In these roles, I developed my ability to communicate ideas in a way that is digestible by beginners to these fundamental topics in computer science. I transferred previous experience in support/public-facing roles well, delivering what some students called "the best tutorial/lab experience I've had during online school" and "[...] such a welcoming atmosphere and a great learning environment."

- Introductory course with ~1400 students that covers a lot of fundamental information as the second recommended course for out-of-stream first year students.
- Covers basic data structures and other competencies necessary in programming
- Led weekly labs for my section of ~30 students
- Held office hours for two assignments

### Teaching Assistant (CSC367 - Parallel Programming) @ University of Toronto
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
Held labs, assisted with lectures, and more for a 3rd-year parallel programming course covering "computer instruction execution, instruction-level parallelism, memory system performance, task and data parallelism, parallel models (shared memory, message passing); synchronization, scalability and Amdahl's law, Flynn taxonomy, vector processing and parallel computing architectures."

### CSC209 Teaching Assistant (Software Tools and Systems Programming) @ University of Toronto
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
- Software tools and systems programming; covers a bunch of low-level programming concepts like pipes, file processing, shell programming, syscalls, signals, threads, and more.
- Held biweekly office hours to help students with weekly tutorials, assignment questions, etc.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Meta
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Menlo Park, California, United States
Networking Data Integrity Framework: Python, SQL, various internal APIs, internal tools (containers, config management, etc.)

### Software Engineer Intern @ Verkada
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Mateo, California, United States
Embedded and full-stack software for Verkada cameras: C++, Go, Yocto, Python, React, Typescript

### Software Engineer Intern @ Qualcomm
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Greater Toronto Area, Canada
Embedded driver work for neural processing unit (eNPU): C, C++, Python, Bash

### CSC148 Educational Developer @ University of Toronto
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020

### Guest Services Associate @ Canada's Wonderland
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019

### Admissions Associate @ Canada's Wonderland
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Toronto, Canada Area


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science, Statistics
University of Toronto


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/st-tran

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Source: https://flows.cv/steventran
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Last updated: 2026-03-29