I’m Chris Tran, a San Francisco Bay Area Network Engineer specializing in IT infrastructure, network security, virtualization, and automation. Currently working at Auto-Chlor System and pursuing my M.S. in IT Management at WGU, I hold a B.S. in Mathematics-Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). I am passionate about building reliable infrastructure that just works. Explore my latest projects, read my technical deep-dives, or click the terminal icon in the bottom right to query my skills directly.
Featured Work
AppsYnapse
A unified agentic trading platform acting as a secure multi-broker gateway (Alpaca, Tradovate). Features backtesting and live bot execution for advanced quantitative strategies, including MACD crossover, Donchian breakouts, Z-Score mean reversion, and Congressional political trade sentiment tracking.
Latest Deep-Dives
Zero Ports Open: Secure Your Home Lab with Cloudflare
Stop exposing your home IP to the public internet. Learn how to use cloudflared tunnels and identity-aware Zero Trust policies to protect your internal services.
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Scaling AI Context Across 8 Web Apps: How I Use Graphify to Feed Claude and Cursor
Managing development across a portfolio of 8 distinct web apps like sYnapse and sYnX can quickly exhaust your token budget. Discover how Graphify constructs a unified codebase map to give AI agents surgical context without the bloat.
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I Migrated my Docker LXCs to NixOS
Say goodbye to configuration drift and 'it works on my machine' syndrome. Discover how NixOS allows you to define your home lab's entire operating system, packages, and services in a single, reproducible codebase.
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