# Stephen Van Tran

> Official professional site for Stephen Van Tran, a Los Angeles-based Director of Engineering and full-stack software engineer with twenty years of production web experience.

Stephen leads engineering for a global video platform at Red Bull Media House. His work spans engineering leadership, distributed web systems, video delivery, artificial intelligence, accessibility, and web performance. He also writes The Weighted Average, a daily reading of the AI economy.

## Profile

- [Professional profile](https://stephenvantran.com/): Career history, technical capabilities, selected figures, recent writing, and contact information.
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenvantran): Professional experience and employment history.
- [GitHub](https://github.com/stran12): Public code and open-source activity.

## Selected writing

- [Meta's 30B Agent Weights Fit a 24GB GPU](https://stephenvantran.com/posts/2026-08-11-meta-muse-glimmer-local-agent/): Analysis of Meta's local agent models and consumer GPU requirements.
- [Claude Code Auto Mode Needs Hard Denies](https://stephenvantran.com/posts/2026-08-10-claude-code-auto-mode-control-plane/): Analysis of safety controls for autonomous coding agents.
- [OfficeQA Makes the Harness the Enterprise Moat](https://stephenvantran.com/posts/2026-08-10-officeqa-harness-grounded-reasoning/): Analysis of grounded reasoning and enterprise agent infrastructure.