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 (76)
azure-functions10
serverless10
lambda10
serverless-architectures10
cloud-services10
aws-lambda10
google-cloud-functions10
alexa-skills-kit10
serverless-framework10
aws-dynamodb10
aws10
amp-html10
bootstrap-css10
hugo9
cms9
Programming languages (9)
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/chalice-transmogrify
Jul 2016 - Jul 2021
AWS Lambda Python Microservice that transforms arbitrary XML/RSS to JSON
Contributions:1 release, 40 commits, 8 PRs in 5 years
aws-lambdalambdamicroservicespythonrss
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