Ara Nguyen
Software Engineer III at Google
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAra Nguyen is a Software Engineer III based in the New York City area with four years of industry experience building scalable systems at Google and AWS. With a strong engineering physics background from Columbia and Stony Brook, Ara blends rigorous research experience with practical backend and DevOps skills, particularly around build systems and dependency management. At scale, Ara has contributed to high-profile open-source projects like Bazel—solving tricky gRPC upgrades, build conflicts, and compilation patches—demonstrating attention to reproducible builds and integration reliability. Comfortable operating at the intersection of development and infrastructure, Ara focuses on ensuring dependable builds and smooth dependency upgrades that keep large codebases shipping.
4 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Engineering Physics/Applied Physics, Master of Science - MS Engineering Physics/Applied Physics at Columbia UniversityBachelor of Science (BS) Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Physics at Stony Brook University
English, Vietnamese, Korean
Github Skills (7)
dependency-management10
build-system10
bazel10
grpc10
go7
java5
javas5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bazelbuild/bazel
Jul 2022 - Jul 2022
a fast, scalable, multi-language and extensible build system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:73 reviews, 4 commits, 13 PRs in 20 days
Contributions summary:Ara's contributions center around updating dependencies, integrating new versions of gRPC, and resolving conflicts related to these upgrades. They also made changes to Bazel build files, including dependency management and build system configurations, demonstrating work on the project's build process. Furthermore, the user implemented patches for build and compilation issues, indicating problem-solving skills within the build system's context, suggesting a focus on ensuring the successful build and integration of dependencies within the Bazel build system.
build-systembazelcorrectscalablemulti-language
bazelbuild/rules_platform
Jan 2024 - May 2025
Contributions:5 releases, 12 reviews, 12 PRs in 1 year 5 months
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