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 PagesRead Case Study

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)PostgreSQLDockerRead Case Study

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 Extensionsgithub.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 DesignPythonRead Case Study

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 7DockerRead Case Study

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 3Read Case Study

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 Extensionsgithub.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 Managementlynbrook-music.org
LiveDell 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.
PythonurwidGradleUbuntudell.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 Orchestrationprnewswire.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 Datapatents.google.com
LiveEducational 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 Visualizationgithub.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.
PythonPydanticPytestCircleCISphinxHatchgithub.com
v1.0.4 • Live