Systems and solutions I’ve architected over the last two decades.

Throughout my career, I've led development on enterprise-grade systems and scalable solutions at major tech companies, and built open-source tools. Here is a curated selection of projects that highlight my focus on backend architecture, resilient automation, and modern full-stack development.

  • Ben Tran Digital Portfolio

    A high-performance, statically exported digital portfolio engineered with Next.js App Router and Tailwind v4. Built for strict accessibility, edge deployment, and privacy-first analytics.

    Insight: Enforced a strict Server/Client component boundary to maximize static SEO generation while providing stateful interactive filtering, achieving perfect Lighthouse scores without a backend runtime.

    Next.js 15ReactTailwind v4TypeScriptCloudflare Pages

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  • Real-Time Telemetry Aggregator

    A distributed system designed for high-frequency telemetry ingestion from thousands of edge devices, utilizing WebSocket streaming and Protobuf serialization.

    Insight: Optimized high-throughput ingestion by combining a buffered Go Worker Pool with native PostgreSQL COPY protocols, preventing database IOPS exhaustion.

    GoWebSocketsProtocol BuffersRedis (Lua)PostgreSQLDocker

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  • Typography & Typescale Extractor

    A production-grade browser extension designed to automate design system reverse-engineering. It performs real-time DOM traversal to extract font hierarchies, calculates responsive REM scales based on host root-font-size, and utilizes a YIQ luminance algorithm to ensure ADA-compliant preview contrast. Successfully audited and published on the Chrome Web Store and Firefox Add-ons Hub.

    Insight: Resolved asynchronous script injection race conditions and eliminated XSS vectors by pivoting from innerHTML to safe HTML5 <template> cloning to meet strict Mozilla security standards.

    JavaScriptManifest V3Cross-Browser SupportDOM APIUX DesignBrowser Extensions

    github.com

    v1.2.0 • Live
  • Distributed Rate Limiter

    An atomic, high-concurrency rate-limiting engine using Redis Lua scripting and sliding windows. Designed for distributed microservices.

    Insight: Resolved distributed race conditions by moving state-logic to atomic Lua scripts, reducing network round-trips to a single atomic operation.

    RedisLuaDockerSystem DesignPython

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  • Enterprise Marketing Attribution Engine

    A high-performance microservice that ingests, scores, and relationally maps inbound marketing leads. Implemented in both Node.js and Spring Boot to compare modern backend architectural patterns.

    Insight: Compared Prisma’s schema-driven nested transactions against Spring Boot’s Domain-Driven Design using Flyway and Hibernate.

    System DesignNode.js 24Java 26Spring Boot 4Prisma 7Docker

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  • Windows Privacy Automator

    A cross-platform desktop automation suite that bypasses UI virtualization to securely harden Windows 11 privacy settings. Implemented in both C# (WinUI 3/FlaUI) and Python (Pywinauto).

    Insight: Overcame UWP/WinUI 3 UI virtualization race conditions by implementing native UIAutomation Toggle patterns and explicit anchor-based retries.

    System DesignC#PythonFlaUIUIA PatternsWinUI 3

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  • StreamCatch

    A network inspection browser extension designed to intercept, filter, and capture streaming media requests. Built for power-users and developers to monitor background traffic and media manifest files.

    Insight: Leveraged the WebRequest API to monitor and filter background network traffic asynchronously, avoiding main-thread UI blocking while extracting stream manifests.

    JavaScriptManifest V3Cross-Browser SupportBrowser Extensions

    github.com

    v5.2 • Live
  • Lynbrook Instrumental Music Boosters Website

    Led the digital modernization of the Lynbrook High School Music Program. Replaced a legacy web architecture with a highly immersive, mobile-first platform that centralizes event scheduling, media distribution, and donor pipelines.

    Insight: Prioritized a zero-cost Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and stakeholder maintainability over a complex custom stack. Leveraged Google Sites as a robust, no-code infrastructure to deliver a premium frontend UX without introducing technical debt to a non-technical organization.

    UI/UX DesignSystem ModernizationCost OptimizationDigital StrategyStakeholder Management

    lynbrook-music.org

    Live
  • Dell Security Management Server Virtual

    An enterprise-grade virtual appliance architecture deployed globally to manage endpoint encryption, fleet-wide access control, and cryptographic policy enforcement for Dell Data Security.

    Insight: Designed and implemented the core configuration management interface utilizing Python and urwid for headless Ubuntu deployments, ensuring robust administrative control in strict, zero-GUI server environments.

    PythonurwidGradleUbuntu

    dell.com

    Live
  • Lockheed Martin IronClad

    A hardware-encrypted, portable virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution providing a highly secure, tamper-proof computing environment booting directly from a USB flash drive.

    Insight: Engineered the secure Qt-based pre-boot environment serving as the device control plane. Orchestrated cryptographic volume decryption, dynamic host network configuration, and the seamless background execution of the underlying VMware hypervisor.

    QtVMwareUbuntuSystem Orchestration

    prnewswire.com

  • Fast Ingest, Archive and Retrieval Systems

    U.S. Patent 8,788,464. A highly scalable data pipeline architecture designed to ingest, compress, and archive massive data streams while maintaining dynamic querying capabilities across hot and cold storage tiers.

    Insight: Engineered a custom C++ code-generation engine that drastically reduced serialization overhead, enabling sub-millisecond retrieval times across distributed multi-terabyte archives.

    C++Code GenerationBig Data

    patents.google.com

    Live
  • Educational Attainment Choropleth Map

    An interactive data visualization application mapping historical U.S. educational attainment metrics. Engineered using D3.js and TopoJSON to translate complex geographical datasets into an accessible, color-coded UI.

    Insight: Leveraged D3 data binding and asynchronous TopoJSON rendering to dynamically map massive datasets to SVG coordinate systems, ensuring high-performance rendering without browser thread blocking.

    JavaScriptD3.jsTopoJSONData Visualization

    github.com

    Live
  • Yelp Fusion API v3 Python Client

    A Python 3 client library providing a type-safe interface to the Yelp Fusion API v3. Designed as a showcase for modern Python SDK standards.

    Insight: Engineered a production-ready SDK lifecycle. Implemented comprehensive API mocking to ensure CI/CD stability and utilized Pydantic for strict runtime type enforcement and data validation.

    PythonPydanticPytestCircleCISphinxHatch

    github.com

    v1.0.4 • Live