Summary
David Nguyen is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of startup-focused experience building full-stack products from the ground up, currently shaping Matchmaker at Two Chairs to better match clinical supply and demand. He blends strong hands-on skills in Python, JavaScript, frontend engineering, and design with a product-oriented, people-first approach that prioritizes sustainable engineering culture. At Two Chairs he progressed from early hire to tech lead and now staff, driving timezone/multi-region scaling, data foundations, and pragmatic technical debt management. He thrives in cross-functional, mission-driven teams and is comfortable balancing strategic direction with day-to-day delivery. Based in New York, he brings a jack-of-all-trades mentality that surfaces practical trade-offs and shipping velocity over pure perfection. An avid builder rather than a title-seeker, he pairs design sensibility with engineering rigor to move complex healthcare workflows into production.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Coursework towards Bachelor of Arts (Incomplete) Computer Science, Coursework towards Bachelor of Arts (Incomplete) Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Vietnamese, English