Alan Nguyen
Software Engineering Manager at LitCharts
Brandon, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlan Nguyen is a software engineering manager with a decade of experience building and leading remote, full‑stack teams across education, energy, and recruiting tech. He progresses from hands‑on roles in Ruby, Elixir, React, and GraphQL to people leadership—running 1:1s, shaping culture, and instituting practices like squad health checks and documentation standards. At LitCharts he now guides engineering while previously contributing to product and moonshot initiatives at Wellfound and platform work at Enbala focused on sustainable energy. He prefers mission-driven work addressing social impact problems (climate, education) and routinely balances shipping reliable systems with developer growth. Known for converting legacy systems into modern stacks and quickly delivering PoCs and integrations, he combines pragmatic engineering with a knack for operational improvements. Based in Brandon, Florida, he brings a pattern of fostering team well‑being as a lever for sustained technical delivery.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's, Computer Science, Bachelor's, Computer Science at Colorado School of Mines
English
Github Skills (52)
business-rules9
expression-language8
rule-engine8
engine8
json8
slack-bot7
sprockets6
greenkeeper6
react5
asset-pipeline5
palm5
robot5
integrate5
npm4
rails4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
alnguyen/secret-santa
Nov 2018 - Sep 2021
A script to generate secret santa matches and notifies the matches via text message
Contributions:9 reviews, 10 PRs, 14 pushes in 2 years 10 months
text-messagematchessantasecretmessage
alnguyen/stackbot
Feb 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:73 commits, 18 PRs, 41 pushes in 1 month
botkicksslack-botslacktinkering
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