Duong Nguyen
Senior Software Engineer at Confluent
Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDuong Nguyen is a Staff Software Engineer with nine years of experience specializing in distributed systems, cloud-native infrastructure, and performance optimization. He has driven large-scale improvements at Cloudera and Confluent—scaling Apache Ozone metadata throughput by 20x and applying zero-copy I/O and memory-leak diagnostics to boost reliability. A regular Apache committer and contributor to projects like Ozone and Ratis, he blends deep backend systems work (Kubernetes, gRPC, protobuf) with practical fixes such as S3 gateway refactors and robust CLI error handling. Currently at Together AI after a tenure at Confluent, Duong focuses on shipping resilient, maintainable systems and enabling teams to operate at scale. Based in Greater Vancouver, he pairs hands-on engineering with a penchant for subtle infrastructure improvements that prevent customer-visible issues.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS Information Technology, BS Information Technology at 2006
English
Github Skills (9)
command-line-tool10
javas10
java10
api-design9
s3-bucket9
amazon-s39
aws-s39
error-handling9
object-storage9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
apache/ozone
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Scalable, reliable, distributed storage system optimized for data analytics and object store workloads.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:367 reviews, 27 commits, 102 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Duong primarily focused on improving the codebase's robustness and maintainability. They corrected exit codes for command-line tools, ensuring proper error handling. Additionally, they refactored the S3 gateway code to prevent double lookups and eliminate customer-related events from the S3G logs. Further contributions included implementing key-level information retrieval and integrating the new getKeyInfo API across various components within the system.
scalableredundantapachebig-dataspark
duongkame/ozone
Jun 2022 - Nov 2024
Scalable, redundant, and distributed object store for Apache Hadoop
Contributions:6 PRs, 481 pushes, 100 branches in 2 years 5 months
scalableredundantapachebig-dataspark
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