Kim Ngo
Senior System Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex United States
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Top SchoolKim Ngo is a Senior System Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient, cloud-native infrastructure and backend systems, currently at NVIDIA in the Dallas–Fort Worth area. Previously at HashiCorp she made impactful open-source contributions to flagship projects like Terraform, Consul, and the Terraform Plugin SDK—improving provider discovery, protocol compatibility, and checksum/telemetry reliability for widely used infrastructure tooling. She brings deep Go expertise from leading language adoption and refactors at Qntfy and a strong systems-plus-data background from research roles at Notre Dame where she optimized large-scale bioinformatics analyses. Known for pragmatic engineering that balances robustness with operational observability, Kim often focuses on hardening distributed components and improving upgrade/installation UX in production ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science - Cloud Computing, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science - Cloud Computing at University of Notre DameTheology and History, Theology and History at Tantur Ecumenical InstituteHigh School, High School at Fossil Ridge High School
English, Vietnamese
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Github Skills (35)
opentofu10
service-mesh10
testing10
plugin-development10
configuration-management10
verification10
terraform10
terraform-provider10
consul10
verify10
terraformer10
go10
vault10
golang10
infrastructure-as-code10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/consul-template
Feb 2020 - Jul 2020
Template rendering, notifier, and supervisor for @HashiCorp Consul and Vault data.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:18 reviews, 27 commits, 9 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Kim primarily contributed to back-end functionality and infrastructure improvements within the Consul-Template project. Their work included addressing issues related to Vault KVv2 secret path handling, adding metrics for monitoring the application, and implementing configuration options for telemetry. They also refactored code, updated dependencies, and modified the codebase to support inclusive language.
golanghashicorp-consultemplatingtemplate-renderingvault
hashicorp/consul
Mar 2020 - Jan 2022
Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:155 reviews, 72 commits, 103 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Kim made several contributions focused on enhancing the Consul agent's transaction endpoint. These changes involved configuring limits for transaction request size, modifying code related to the handling and processing of transaction operations. Additionally, the user updated tests to accurately reflect the new limits and configurations. The user also made adjustments to mesh gateway functionality, including timeout configurations.
api-gatewayecsgolangcenterdistributed
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