Donald Nguyen

Chief Technology Officer at Corvic AI

San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Donald Nguyen is a CTO and applied research engineer with nine years of industry experience and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UT Austin, currently leading Corvic AI’s efforts to bring enterprise-grade AI into production. He combines deep academic training in ML and verification with hands-on systems work across startups and scale-ups, from building language runtimes and cloud-native orchestration at Synthace to graph and ML infrastructure at Katana Graph and Determined AI. Donald’s pragmatic breadth spans compiler/runtime design, CI/CD and dependency management (e.g., contributions to the Cloud Foundry Python buildpack), and production ML pipelines, making him fluent in both low-level performance tuning and high-level product delivery. Based in the Bay Area, he’s known for turning research into reliable systems and for hiring and scaling engineering practices that bridge academia, techbio, and enterprise AI.
code9 years of coding experience
job11 years of employment as a software developer
bookDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
bookBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Yale University
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Github Skills (8)

pip10
python10
cicd10
buildpack10
testing9
go7
dockers5
docker5

Programming languages (11)

ShellCSSCNimGoPHPHTMLRuby

Github contributions (5)

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Cloud Foundry buildpack for the Python Language
Role in this project:
userDevOps Engineer
Contributions:8 commits, 5 pushes, 2 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Donald focused on improving the build process for the Python buildpack. Their contributions included modifying the build isolation process, adding flags for pip installation, and fixing unit tests related to the build and vendor directories. Furthermore, the user appears to be responsible for testing the functionality of the buildpack, with modifications to the testing configurations. These actions show an understanding of CI/CD, dependency management, and the overall build process.
foundrypythoncloud-foundryv2bbuildpack
ndon55555/tools

Mar 2019 - Jun 2021

Contributions:1 PR, 49 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 2 months
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Donald Nguyen - Chief Technology Officer at Corvic AI