Summary
David Nguyen is a Systems Reliability Engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience building and scaling production infrastructure in the San Francisco Bay Area, currently focused on reliability at Cloudflare. He combines a systems administrator’s rigor with backend software engineering skills, having implemented APIs, automated deployments with SaltStack and Puppet, and containerized environments with Docker. His background spans on-premise VM orchestration, log-driven forecasting using Elasticsearch and Flask, and day-to-day operational tooling for high-availability services. David’s academic foundation in Mathematics of Computation and systems programming informs a pragmatic approach to performance and observability. Colleagues describe him as an engineer who bridges the gap between ops and dev, equally comfortable writing shell automation or designing resilient distributed systems. He brings an appetite for operating-system level detail that often surfaces in subtle reliability improvements behind the scenes.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts (A.A.), Liberal Arts, Business Emphasis, Associate of Arts (A.A.), Liberal Arts, Business Emphasis at De Anza College
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics of Computation, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics of Computation at University of California, Los Angeles