Kim Nguyen
Software Engineer IV (Contractor Via ManpowerGroup & Coalise) at MusAid
France
Summary
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Top SchoolKim Nguyen is a Software Engineer IV with five years of hands-on experience building modern React and TypeScript applications, currently contracting at American Express. They specialize in front-end architecture, testing (Jest, Cypress, RTL), and developer tooling—having led front-end work on Reactime, an open-source time-travel debugging and performance monitoring tool nominated for the React Open Source Awards. Kim has shipped production systems across healthcare, music education, and consumer platforms, often contributing to design systems with Storybook and improving developer ergonomics through visualization and tooling. Trained as a classical violist at Juilliard and the Conservatoire de Paris, Kim brings a disciplined, creative approach to engineering and has given technical talks on Deno.js and front-end frameworks. Notably, they combine deep React Fiber knowledge with strong UI/UX sensibilities, making them effective at both core performance work and polished user-facing features.
5 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Baccalauréat Scientifique, Baccalauréat Scientifique at Lycée RacineBachelor of Music and Master of Music Viola, Bachelor of Music and Master of Music Viola at The Juilliard SchoolUndergraduate and Graduate Diploma Viola, Undergraduate and Graduate Diploma Viola at Conservatoire National Regional de Paris
French, English
Github Skills (8)
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typescript10
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
open-source-labs/Reactime
Nov 2020 - Jan 2021
Developer tool for time travel debugging and performance monitoring in React applications.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 57 commits, 6 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Kim primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Reactime project. Their work involved modifications to the `linkFiber.ts`, `tree.ts`, and `index.ts` files, indicating involvement in the core functionality of the tool. They also made changes to the background script and the UI components, suggesting a focus on both the underlying mechanics and the user interface of the Reactime extension. Furthermore, they addressed the styling of the component map.
why-did-you-updatesnapshotsdevtools-extensionreactjsmonitoring
Bucket-List-v2-0/Bucket-List-v2.0
Nov 2020 - Nov 2020
Creating a bucket list
Contributions:5 reviews, 17 commits, 5 PRs in 2 days
javascriptbucket-list
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