Benjamin Nguyen
Director Of Product Management at University of Southern California
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Nguyen is a physician-turned-product leader in San Francisco who builds and scales AI-first healthcare platforms, specializing in LLM and agentic AI products. Over seven years he has shipped clinician- and patient-facing solutions—from transformer-based models and AI computer vision for hospital workflows to Telehealth and a flagship GenAI health navigation product used by Fortune 100 customers. As Director of Product Management at Transcarent he leads a growing team and continues hands-on work owning the roadmap for WayFinding and the GenAI platform that powers organization-wide agentic capabilities. He brings rare cross-domain fluency: clinical training, product GTM experience from zero-to-one, and full-stack engineering contributions (including enhancements to the popular erdtree CLI utility). Benjamin also teaches AI fundamentals at USC, signaling a commitment to translating complex ML concepts into practical clinical tools. Outside work he’s a self-taught programmer with eclectic tastes—horror movies, extreme metal, and anime—that underscore a creative, unconventional approach to problem solving.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoDoctor of Medicine (M.D.), Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) at Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern CaliforniaGraduate Certificate in Technology Commercialization Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Graduate Certificate in Technology Commercialization Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at USC Marshall School of BusinessGraduate Certificate in Health Technology and Engineering, Graduate Certificate in Health Technology and Engineering at USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Vietnamese
Github Skills (12)
command-line-interface10
error-handling10
filesystem10
rust10
cli10
command-line10
algorithms9
data-structure9
algorithm9
data-structures9
unit-testing8
tree8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
solidiquis/erdtree
Apr 2022 - May 2022
A modern, cross-platform, multi-threaded, and general purpose filesystem and disk-usage utility that is aware of .gitignore and hidden file rules.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:32 releases, 44 reviews, 36 commits in 17 days
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily focused on enhancing the `erdtree` command-line utility. Their contributions include implementing features such as the ability to ignore specific file prefixes and limit directory depth. They also worked on improving the display of file sizes using SI units, and refining the CLI module for better usability and argument parsing. Furthermore, they addressed edge cases like permission errors and handling symlinks.
command-line-toolfile-treetree-visualizervisualizerrust
solidiquis/novavim
May 2021 - Jun 2021
Vim but in Rust (Work-in-progress).
Contributions:49 commits, 13 PRs, 44 pushes in 1 month
vimrustin-progressrustlangneovim
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