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Liem Tran

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Current
Software Engineer @ Chewy
Location
Seattle, Washington
System scale
1M+ events / day
Business impact
$15M / year unlocked
Liem Tran smiling outdoors
Technologies →AWSKafkaJavaSpring BootElasticsearchSQSPythonNode.jsReact

Skills

Hands-on experience across cloud processing, event platforms, search, and service architecture.

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Cloud systems

Designed and implemented an event-driven processing system to consolidate high-volume subscription activity on AWS.

Used in practice

The consolidation system processes 100K+ events daily and unlocked $15M/year in revenue.

  • AWS
  • SQS
  • Cloud infrastructure

Experience

Chewy

June 2025 — Present

Chewy

Software Engineer

Building event-driven systems and operational tooling for high-volume order and subscription workflows.

  • Architected a consolidation system processing 100K+ subscription events daily and unlocking $15M/year in revenue.
  • Led the technical design and end-to-end delivery of an order-status platform ingesting 1M+ events per day and supporting four or more partner teams.
  • Kafka
  • EKS
  • Elasticsearch
  • SQS
  • ECS
  • DynamoDB
  • React
  • Next.js
Chewy

May 2024 — December 2024

Chewy

Software Engineering Co-op

Designed serverless order-processing infrastructure for fulfillment operations across the United States.

  • Processed 100K+ concurrent orders from 18 fulfillment centers, contributing an estimated $6.4M in annual shipping savings.
  • Reduced end-to-end processing from 30 minutes to 5 minutes and doubled message throughput.
  • AWS Lambda
  • S3
  • SQS
  • ECS
  • Spring Boot
  • REST APIs

Projects

App Store · 30-person team
GopherTunnels application splash screen

Tech Lead

GopherTunnels

A mobile navigation experience for the University of Minnesota tunnel system.

  • Led a cross-functional team of developers, designers, and engineers.
  • Helped shape the Neo4j data layer and optimize retrieval through Express.
  • React Native
  • Node.js
  • Neo4j
  • Google Cloud
App Store
Collaborative learning
Study Buddy application

Full-stack Developer

Study Buddy

A collaborative study platform created to help students learn together.

  • Connected a Python and Django backend to a responsive React experience.
  • Designed around finding study support and learning with other students.
  • Django
  • Python
  • Node.js
  • React
GitHub Devpost
2nd place · LAHacks 2023
Back To Hue application

Mobile Developer

Back To Hue

A mobile color experience built with a realtime application backend.

  • Collaborated on a six-person team across engineering, design, and product.
  • Shipped the cross-platform application to the Google Play Store.
  • Firebase
  • Node.js
  • React Native
  • Expo
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