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Hi, I'm Sol Tran,

Silicon Valley Bred Engineering Leader (ex Yuga Labs, ex Rubrik)

Building Full Stack Applications & Startups Since 2009

Enterprise Software Experience

Building software that is eating the world of Shipping and Data Security

2013-2017:

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Shipping and Packing API that gives your business access to 100s of carriers with the best rates

Summary

As the first engineer hired, I got to experience the joy and tribulations of building a start-up from the ground up to a team of 15+ engineers and $1 million in gross revenue/mth. Built across the stack, from building data models and APIs to architecting the front-end. Also led/hosted the Santa Barbara AngularJS Meetup group.

Role

  • Founding Engineer
  • Full-Stack Engineer (RoR, JS)
  • First Hire (wore many hats)
  • Technical Lead
  • Technical Recruiter
  • Seed Investor
Projects include (but not limited to):
Packing algorithm (ruby)
ShipHawk REST API (rails)
Rating (rails)
Rating UI (angular)
Carrier Integration (ruby)
Customer branded tracking page (react/redux)
Quoting/booking UI
Rules management UI
Thermal label printing integration
Multi-tenancy
Internal CMS

2017-2022:

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Cloud Data Management & Security for the Enterprise

Summary

Joining Rubrik at Series C as employee 234, I helped scale our full-stack teams and transform our product from an on-premise backup solution to a full-fledged cloud data management platform. By the time I left, I was managing 15 engineers across 3 teams and my teams had generated over $4 million in SaaS revenue.

Role

  • UI Tech Lead (M365, VMWare)
  • Senior Software Engineer
  • API Standards Committee member
  • Full-Stack Engineering Manager
  • Senior Engineering Manager (Core Product & Frameworks)
Projects include (but not limited to):
Infinite scrolling table
M365 Data Protection & Ransomware Detection (UI)
GraphQL architecture
Migration from Grunt to Webpack
Cypress testing set up
Global object search
Global file search
MSSQL data protection
VMWare data protection
Ransomware Detection (UI)
Cloud strategy/roadmap for Rubrik Security Cloud
Product Analytics (Amplitude / Mixpanel) set up
EULA management
User onboarding flows
In-product announcements
UI architecture & Standards
UI Bootcamp
API standards committee
Hiring
Try & Buy
AppFlows Automated DR Orchestration (UI)

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Other enterprise companies I've worked for (2008-2013)

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Enterprise Grade Software is Comprenhensive

In a world where security and access control is table stakes...Put your trust in someone who has experience building software thatWorks for everybody from SMBs to the Fortune 500
Here are a list of some feature sets that I have experience building in my career:

Custom Dashboards

Give users the information they need all in one place

Multi-Tenancy

Support resellers or enterprises with complex business units

Super Admin

Empower your Customer Success team so they can manage, impersonate, or disable your users

White Label & Custom Branding

Enable your users to customize the look and feel of your platform

World-class APIs with Documentation

Great Enterprise Software needs world-class APIs

Billing & Subscription

In-product billing, invoicing, and subscription management
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"If you want success team up with Sol. He's a great recruiter, technologist, leader, and an all-around rock-star type of person."

Aaron Freeman

CTO, Founder at Upwell

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"Sol knows how to build a team that executes successfully. I happily recommend Sol to any organization looking for a leader who fosters inclusion, brings out the best in their employees, and helps them achieve great success."

Vince Messenger

Engineering Manager at Rubrik

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"Sol is an excellent manager and coworker and he's one of the most dedicated coworker I have worked with. He has made me improve in many technical areas"

Richard Hong

Software Engineer at Meta, AI Tools

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"Sol was a great leader, mentor, and co-worker. He always did what was necessary to get the job done without hesitation. Not only was he a technical leader, but also a cultural one."

Jonathan Kassan

Director of Product at Hearth

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"He brought a level of enthusiasm and creativity that rose beyond expectation. He consistently delivered with limited supervision and oversight and demonstrated the ability to adapt to changing goals"

Dave Hawley

Fractional CMO for B2B SaaS Companies

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Ohisama.eth

Web3 - Delivering Luxury into the World of Digital Goods

Participating in crypto since 2014

Hackathons

Participated in Money 20/20 Bitcoin-centric hackathons in 2014 and 2015

Open Source Contributor

Paid Contributor to Ubeswap - a decentralized exchange on the Celo Blockchain

NFT Holder

NBA Top Shot, Cool Cats, 10KTF, and other collections

DeFi Summer

Participated in Yield Farming, Liquidity Pools, and Staking

Assets across chains

Assets Across Ethereum, Celo, Polygon, Avalanche, Solana

Led Engineering Teams

Managed full-stack (frontend, smart contract, backend)
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Director of Engineering at Yuga Labs (2022-2023)

Led teams behind 10KTF, Legends of the Mara, Gucci Kodapendant, Puma slipstreams

Gucci KodaPendant Sale

$5.7 Million in 24 hours selling Gucci pendant metadata

The KodaPendant, an Otherside Relic by Gucci, is a digital and physical piece that represents Gucci’s entry into Otherside. Sold over 3100 KodaPendants in 24 hours at a price of 450 APE coin (~$1,900 USD). We built https://kodapendant.otherside.xyz, a full e-commerce web app with ETH wallet connection, from scratch in less than 4 weeks.

Legends of the Mara

Otherside: Legends of the Mara, aka LOTM, is a standalone experience powered by ApeCoin

LOTM is a game that enlists the Otherside Koda collection and introduces a brand new collection called Mara, which can evolve into Kodamara. 10 Month Project that involved over 13 smart contracts, 8+ engineers, game economy, AWS infrastructure, monitoring, IPFS, and more. Generated at one point about $200,000 in daily revenue from in-game purchases.

Puma Slipstream

Grailed PUMA Slipstreams. Over $2 Million in Sales

Move swiftly. Grailed PUMA Slipstream Physicals are 1:1 sneakers with the power to transport. An embedded NFC chip links these shoes to their matching digital counterpart and registers physical ownership on the blockchain. First major project using our in-house team built On Demand Rendering Pipeline using AWS Lambdas.