Deanna Tran

Senior Software Engineer, new york, ny

itsdeannatran@gmail.com · linkedin.com/in/deannatran · github.com/dnntrn
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Experience

Cloudflare

security operations, trust and safety

May 2024 – Present

Senior Software Engineer

  • Forward-Deployed: Embedded across security and trust teams to diagnose broken operational processes and build full-stack solutions
  • 0-to-1 Build: Architect and ship the operational platform behind Cloudflare’s SOC-as-a-service, replacing manual tasks
  • Product Ownership: Define product roadmaps, scope requirements, and own cross-functional delivery dates
  • Mentorship: Mentor junior engineers and interns to ramp up code quality and increase overall team shipping speed
  • AI Workflows: Train non-technical enterprise stakeholders on leveraging AI tools to accelerate research and documentation

Software Engineer

  • Operational Impact: Reduced legal response processing times by 80–90% and completely eliminated engineering overhead for routine requests
  • Self-Serve UIs: Built a metadata-driven UI framework that allows Trust & Safety analysts to self-serve, defining their own templates and workflows without code changes
  • Product Ownership: Served as primary frontend owner for all Legal Response UIs, building internal applications for geoblocks, PRTT processing, and data preservation from scratch

Season

healthtech, nutrition, Series A

Frontend Engineer

  • Greenfield Delivery: Engineered and shipped critical patient-facing infrastructure, including the cart checkout flow, intake forms, and third-party vendor storefront
  • Design System: Created an internal design system with reusable components, drastically accelerating team development velocity and reducing visual debt
  • On-Call Responsibility: Triaged and resolved high-priority production bugs during on-call rotations to maintain platform uptime

Ellevest

fintech, Series B

Sep 2019 – Jun 2022

Software Engineer II

  • Onboarding and Conversion: Developed core full-stack features using React and React Native, driving a 4% increase in conversion and a 20% increase in funding rate
  • Production Support: Debugged and resolved complex application issues escalated through client support and automated bug reports
  • Test Automation: Authored comprehensive end-to-end mobile and web automation test suites using WebdriverIO to guarantee release stability

Skills

React TypeScript Cloudflare Workers TailwindCSS Product Engineering Design Systems Cross-Functional Collaboration

Education

New York University, BA Computer Science

2020