Khanh Nguyen
Principal Engineer at Atlassian
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolKhanh Nguyen is a Principal Engineer based in Sydney with 11 years of experience building reliable, high-performance distributed systems and data pipelines that serve hundreds of millions of users. With a PhD in Computer Science and a strong foundation in algorithms, formal methods and verification, he blends research-grade rigor with hands-on engineering across Python, Java and Scala. Khanh has led backend and platform efforts at Atlassian, Indeed and Zendesk and has deep experience in big-data stacks (Spark, Kafka), cloud automation and low-latency ETL. He’s comfortable both shipping product features—payments and logistics at Shopee—and optimizing core systems, having improved model-checking performance fivefold during his PhD. Known for mentoring teams and driving architecture decisions, he brings a rare mix of academic depth and production-ready pragmatism to large-scale SaaS and analytics challenges.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School Mathematics, High School Mathematics at Quoc HocBachelor's Degree Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science & Engineering at Ho Chi Minh City University of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at National University of Singapore
English, Vietnamese
Github Skills (46)
algolia10
jekyll10
jekyll-theme10
python9
ruler9
github-pages9
pure-python9
utterances9
science9
triangular9
algolia-search9
computer-algebra-system8
dashboard8
computer-algebra8
monitoring8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
truongkhanh/macporthelper
Aug 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
truongkhanh/finiteautomata
Feb 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:19 pushes in 4 months
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