Khanh Nguyen
Senior Software Engineer at Tesla
Fremont, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKhanh Nguyen is a Senior Software Engineer based in Fremont, CA with four years of hands-on experience building cloud-native, high-scale systems for millions of users at companies including Amazon and Tesla. He specializes in Go, distributed systems, observability, and CI/CD automation—having owned the AWS CloudWatch Agent and contributed release and rollback automation to the AWS OpenTelemetry collector. At Tesla he architected global delivery systems that cut query latency by 92% and reduced delivery times by 70%, and at Amazon he drove a 90% performance improvement in agent telemetry. Equally comfortable in backend services, Kubernetes, and DevOps pipelines, he blends product-focused engineering with operational rigor to enable zero-downtime releases and reliable SLAs. Outside work he invests 20+ hours weekly in self-learning and devops/engineering reading, signaling continuous technical growth and community-minded knowledge sharing.
4 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at International University - VNU HCMCMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of the CumberlandsBachelors Computer Engineeriing, Bachelors Computer Engineeriing at Rutgers University
Vietnamese, English, Chinese
Github Skills (23)
github-ci10
container10
docker10
scripting10
bash10
containerization10
dockers10
terraform10
cicd10
terraformer10
script10
go10
aws10
sh10
shell10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
CloudWatch Agent enables you to collect and export host-level metrics and logs on instances running Linux or Windows server.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:604 reviews, 37 commits, 106 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Khanh primarily focused on improving the build and deployment processes for the CloudWatch Agent. Their contributions included adding tools for code formatting with shfmt and gofmt, integrating security checks for the binaries, and updating the build process to support the dropping of the ADOT Collector. They also worked on the integration tests, particularly for ECS metadata and NVIDIA GPU, and improved the Windows package and sanity checks.
instancescollectwindows-serverexportagent
aws-observability/aws-otel-collector
Oct 2021 - Mar 2022
AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Collector (see ADOT Roadmap at https://github.com/orgs/aws-observability/projects/4)
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 268 reviews, 36 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Khanh primarily focused on improving the CI/CD pipeline and automating the release process for the aws-otel-collector project. Their contributions included modifying scripts for deleting image tags and S3 releases, implementing a rollback strategy for CD workflows when validation tests fail, and creating a process for cleaning up AWS resources such as EC2 instances and ELB. They also fixed and added conditions for ssm to implement in the pipeline.
opentelemetry-collectortracingorgsobservabilityaws
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