Christopher Nguyen
Senior Principal Software Engineer at The Washington Post
Sarasota, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Nguyen is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, distributed systems and shipping continuous-delivery pipelines at The Washington Post. He blends backend API and data-transformation expertise in Python with proven devops practices (Docker, Jenkins, AWS) to drive reliable publishing and real-time services. Earlier roles as a technical lead at Booz Allen and CGI show deep experience in enterprise integrations, virtualization, and security-conscious architectures for large government and financial clients. Comfortable across the full stack, he has a knack for simplifying complex UX and data workflows and has led multi-million dollar programs from design through delivery. Based in Sarasota, FL, he describes himself playfully as a "String Concatenator" whose design aesthetic centers on empathy—indicating a pragmatic, user-focused approach to engineering.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Computer Science, M.S. Computer Science at The George Washington UniversityB.S. Computer Science Linguistics, B.S. Computer Science Linguistics at University of Maryland
Vietnamese, Spanish, French
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Github Skills (109)
hugo10
azure-functions10
mobile-web10
serverless10
serverless-applications10
lambda10
serverless-architectures10
aws-lambda10
google-cloud-functions10
alexa-skills-kit10
chalice10
aws-sam10
serverless-framework10
nodejs10
aws-dynamodb10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
uncompiled/alexa-fruit-stand
Oct 2016 - Oct 2021
Fruit Stand is an Alexa Skill for proper food storage
Contributions:4 releases, 3 reviews, 42 commits in 5 years 1 month
alexa-skills-kitstandfoodstoragealexa
uncompiled/dotfiles
Oct 2016 - Mar 2021
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
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