Summary
Huy Nguyen is a Senior Software Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with six years of experience building backend systems, data pipelines, and distributed architectures for high-scale financial and payment platforms. He has a proven track record at Nordstrom designing Airflow-orchestrated ETL, Kafka streaming, and cost-optimized storage layers that processed gigabytes to billions of records while cutting costs and improving performance. At Visa he now focuses on scalable, reliable systems that support global payments, bringing practical experience with Java, Python, SQL, AWS and GCP. Huy blends hands-on implementation of REST APIs and real-time streaming with production observability (New Relic, Splunk) and load-testing discipline. Beyond core engineering, he has led cross-team onboarding and office hours to accelerate adoption of centralized data platforms, showing a knack for translating complex data contracts into usable integrations. He also has research roots in fast document scraping and topic modeling, reflecting curiosity for both applied ML and systems engineering.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at The Evergreen State College
Associate of Science - AS, Associate of Science - AS at South Puget Sound Community College