Danny Tran
Senior Staff Software Developer at Zendesk
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolDanny Tran is a Senior Staff Software Developer based in Montreal with 12 years of experience building scalable messaging platforms and integrations. At Zendesk he progressed from founding Smooch team engineer to technical lead for messaging scalability and now senior staff, driving infrastructure, automation, and high-throughput systems. He combines full-stack fluency—Node.js, React, MongoDB—with a track record of shipping production integrations for platforms like Facebook, Shopify, WeChat and MessageBird. Comfortable in both startup and enterprise contexts, he has shepherded SDK parity, dashboard UX, and search APIs while focusing on reliability and operational simplicity. Danny’s background in multimedia integration and engineering gives him a pragmatic product-sense that informs technical decisions beyond pure architecture. He’s fluent in French (Bonjour!) and known for turning complex integration challenges into lightweight, maintainable solutions.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma of College Studies, Multimedia Integration, Diploma of College Studies, Multimedia Integration at Collège de MaisonneuveBachelor of Engineering, Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering, Information Technology at École de technologie supérieureSecondary School Diploma, Secondary School Diploma at Collège St-Jean-Vianney
French, English, Vietnamese
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Github Skills (73)
smooch10
strava-api9
javascript-api8
jekyll8
testing7
swagger7
rest-api7
javascript7
rest7
gpx7
strava7
mongodb7
ipad7
nodejs7
css7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
dannytranlx/dotfiles
Jan 2015 - Feb 2026
Contributions:16 pushes in 11 years 2 months
dannytranlx/dannytranlx.github.io
Mar 2015 - Jul 2020
:grin: My personal website
Contributions:2 PRs, 20 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 5 months
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