Summary
Luan Nguyen is a Lead Engineer based in Melbourne with 11 years of experience building and scaling search, recommendation, and data-driven systems. He blends technical architecture with delivery, having led search and recommendation initiatives that serve tens of millions of artworks and improved add-to-cart rates via vector search and multimodal AI. Luan has a strong track record of operational excellence—maintaining sub-150ms P95 latency at high QPS, cutting data costs by ~$185k annually, and accelerating experimentation from months to weekly cycles. He pairs hands-on engineering (Python, cloud ML pipelines, production SageMaker) with people leadership, mentoring teams to ship automation that reduced manual work from a week to under a minute. An unusual strength is his cross-disciplinary experience spanning UX, product design and startup pitch work, which helps him translate complex ML and infra work into measurable business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience