Duc Nguyen
Senior Software Engineer at Padlet
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolDuc Nguyen is a Senior Software Engineer with 8 years of experience building high-performance, real-time web applications, currently shaping collaboration products at Padlet from Singapore. He combines a product-minded approach with deep front-end and back-end skills—shipping smoother editors, failover video pipelines, and accessibility-minded UX while driving dev experience wins like a 30x faster dev server through Vite adoption. Duc has also contributed to the Serverless Framework, modernizing legacy JavaScript and improving integrations for API Gateway, S3, and Cognito, reflecting a strong taste for maintainable, cloud-native systems. His background includes scalable microservices and trading APIs at Quant Edge and education-focused platforms in Vietnam, demonstrating an ability to translate domain complexity into reliable services. He mentors peers and gives internal talks, signaling leadership beyond coding. Pragmatic, curious, and focused on developer productivity, he favors practical refactors that reduce technical debt and speed delivery.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Control Engineering and Automation, GPA: 3.15, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Control Engineering and Automation, GPA: 3.15 at Hanoi University of Industry
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
aws10
serverless10
nodejs10
amazon-s39
api-gateway9
aws-s39
s3-bucket9
refactoring9
aws-cloudformation8
typescripts6
react6
fast-csv6
typescript6
docker6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
serverless/serverless
May 2020 - Jul 2020
⚡ Serverless Framework – Effortlessly build apps that auto-scale, incur zero costs when idle, and require minimal maintenance using AWS Lambda and other managed cloud services.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 15 PRs, 17 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Duc primarily focused on refactoring code and improving the codebase's maintainability and efficiency within the Serverless Framework project. They upgraded dependencies, replaced legacy JavaScript constructs such as `_.assign`, `_.extend`, `_.indexOf`, `_.isUndefined`, `_.map`, `_.nth`, `_.replace`, `_.repeat`, `_.min`, `_.sortBy`, `_.chain`, and `_.keyBy` with modern native alternatives. The user also made changes to the project's API Gateway, S3, and Cognito User Pools integrations.
aws-lambdaserverlessiot-applicationsawsgoogle-functions
vietduc01100001/jerni
Aug 2018 - Nov 2019
A minimal blogging GraphQL API
Contributions:1 release, 4 PRs, 96 pushes in 1 year 3 months
apigraphql-apibloggingnodejsgraphql
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