Michael Nguyen
Application Engineer
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Nguyen is an Application Engineer based in Portland, Oregon with 10 years of hands-on engineering experience bridging software and mechanical systems. He contributes to major open-source projects like LLVM and Google Benchmark—working on LLDB-DAP debugger improvements, telemetry, and microbenchmark APIs—while also authoring low-level thread and TLS support for Android Bionic. Comfortable across backend systems, tooling, and physical product design, he pairs C/C++ systems work with SolidWorks-led mechanical design from student motorsports to industrial fixtures. At Swagelok Northwest and during multiple MECOP internships he translated cross-disciplinary requirements into robust, testable implementations and improved workflows with automation and documentation. An avid traveler, diver, and amateur photographer, he brings a practical curiosity and systems-thinking approach that surfaced early in leadership roles building educational robotics kits and managing a Baja SAE drivetrain program.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Science Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's of Science Mechanical Engineering at Portland State UniversityAssociate of Arts - AA Oregon Transfer, Associate of Arts - AA Oregon Transfer at Clackamas Community College
Github Skills (15)
debugging10
system-calls10
benchmarking10
benchmark10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
thread10
performance-optimization10
llvm10
api-design9
software-design9
telemetry9
ptrace9
memory-management8
json6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
llvm/llvm-project
May 2020 - Jul 2026
The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:277 reviews, 81 PRs, 146 pushes in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily worked on the LLDB-DAP (Debugger Adapter Protocol) code within the LLVM project, focusing on exception breakpoint filters and their integration. Their commits involved refactoring and fixing issues related to breakpoint handling, specifically removing Swift-related filters in certain scenarios and ensuring the correct initialization of exception breakpoint filters. The user also made improvements to the error messaging for invalid commands and implemented changes to the Telemetry framework in LLDB, including its plugin definition.
compilerllvmtoolchain
google/benchmark
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
A microbenchmark support library
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:38 reviews, 24 commits, 27 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the `google/benchmark` repository by modifying the benchmark library's internal workings and API. Their work included changing default flag values, introducing accessors for internal data members, and adding memory metrics. They also fixed issues related to command-line flags and refactored the code for improved readability and maintainability. Furthermore, they added features such as the ability to specify iteration counts and the benchmark's family name, and they introduced setup/teardown options.
microbenchmarkbenchmark
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