Oliver Tran

Co-Founder and CTO

Exporium Ltd•  March 2018 - December 2024•  London, United Kingdom

Participated in strategic management and planning. Defined protocols to improve management culture. Developed a robust business platform during spare time between Sep 2018 and Nov 2020.

Senior Software Engineer

Immobiliare.it Spa•  May 2021 - May 2024•  Rome, Italy

Developed and maintained server-side web applications. Led a critical messaging system fix, reducing issue frequency by 100x. Implemented the ETL pipeline to sanitize and migrate a corruption-affected critical dataset of 80M+ records.

Head of IT

YourPersonal Srl•  August 2017 - May 2021•  Rome, Italy

Managed IT-related projects and budgets through strategic planning, ensuring 90%+ deadlines were met. Increased IT relevance in company culture through communication and results presentation, resulting in a +100% IT budget boost. Secured an exclusive partnership with Trenitalia SA, Italy's main rail operator, in an intense 1-month project.

Lead Software Engineer

YourPersonal Srl•  February 2014 - May 2021•  Rome, Italy

Debugged pre-existing company web platform, solving critical failure issues and increasing performance by 2x. Designed disaster recovery and high-availability plan; service interruptions dropped from 2h/month to 0. Realized and documented a platform that hugely boosted (100x+) company IT capabilities, notably a 10x+ boost to back-office activities and business expansion abroad and B2C market. Hired and led the internal IT team (1 full-stack dev/sysadmin, 1 front-end dev, 1 tester, 1 document writer).

University of Bath

Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence), MS•  May 2022 - July 2025

Core courses explored Supervised and Unsupervised Learning, Probabilistic Models, Neural Networks, Reinforcement Learning, Computer Vision, NLP, AI-based System Engineering, and AI Ethics. Dissertation: Leveraging Human MRI Data to Enhance Veterinary MRI Acquisition through Transfer Learning in Clinically Relevant Scenarios. This research explored using larger human datasets to improve AI-based MRI denoising in veterinary medicine, where datasets are scarce, using Deep Learning and Self-Supervision without clean ground truth. Earned the degree while working full-time and leading a startup.

University of Rome "La Sapienza"

Computer Science, BS•  September 2006 - December 2013•  Percentage: 95.5

Grade: 105/110 (95.5% with mitigating circumstances). Core courses explored Computer Science Maths, Programming, Algorithms Design, Operating Systems, Software Engineering, Databases, Networks, and Human-Computer Interaction. Dissertation: Design and development of an Android app for custom teaching information fruition. This project developed a prototype system consisting of a mobile front-end app and a back-end server designed to deliver university information to students through a user-centered approach. It utilized a relevance flow concept to provide users with the most pertinent data for the upcoming time.