Drew Nguyen
Senior Engineering Manager at 8am
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDrew Nguyen is a Senior Engineering Manager based in San Diego with seven years of professional experience and a strong full-stack background in Ruby, TypeScript, React, and MySQL. He has steadily progressed through technical and leadership roles at 8am and AppFolio, moving from software engineer to tech lead and now managing engineering teams focused on delivery and product impact. Drew contributes to open-source front-end tooling—most notably adding UX features like drag-and-resize component displays to the OverVue prototyping tool—demonstrating a hands-on approach to UI and developer UX. He pairs a Master’s in Computer Science from San Diego State with practical product engineering experience, bringing both architectural thinking and day-to-day coding credibility. Known for being curious and resilient, he balances management responsibilities with continued technical craft and mentorship. Outside work he signs his commits as an “ethical cat dad,” hinting at a thoughtful, grounded personality.
7 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at San Diego State University
Github Skills (5)
frontend10
vue10
quasar10
javascript9
electron5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
open-source-labs/OverVue
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
Prototyping Tool For Vue Devs 适用于Vue的原型工具
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:88 commits, 62 PRs, 33 pushes in 16 days
Contributions summary:Drew's commits primarily focused on implementing features and making UI changes for the "overvue" project. Their work included adding new routes and components, and also styling changes within the application. The user was responsible for making changes to the footer and code snippets, and for implementing a component display with the use of drag and resize functionality.
vuejsprototyping-toolelectron-vueelectronprototyping
reception-bot/Notifly
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
A mobile-first webapp built with react and typescript that allows guests to check in and alert the slackbot
Contributions:45 commits, 32 PRs, 18 pushes in 2 days
alertreactbuilt-with-reactslackbotguests
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