Michael Nguyen
Principal Software Quality Engineer at Red Hat
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Nguyen is a Principal Software Quality Engineer with over a decade of experience driving reliability and automation in large-scale cloud and OS build environments. Based in Boston and currently at Red Hat, he has advanced from QA automation roles at Sun/EMC through developer and SDET positions at Oracle to senior quality leadership, blending deep test engineering with DevOps practice. He contributes to open-source tooling such as coreos-assembler, where he automated encryption testing, fixed race conditions, and added cloud publication and enhanced QEMU test capabilities—demonstrating a knack for making complex platform builds reproducible and testable. Known for rooting out subtle infrastructure bugs and improving CI/CD for distributed systems, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a systems-level perspective informed by a long track record in enterprise software.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Information Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Information Science at Northeastern University
English, Vietnamese
Github Skills (16)
testing10
automation10
automations10
docker10
dockers10
encryption10
build-automation10
cicd10
cloud-services9
qemu9
kubernetes-pods9
build-system9
bash9
cloud-infrastructure9
kubernetes9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
coreos/coreos-assembler
Mar 2019 - Dec 2022
Tooling container to assemble CoreOS-like systems
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:82 reviews, 39 commits, 73 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Michael contributed significantly to automating and improving the testing and deployment processes within the `coreos/coreos-assembler` repository. Their work included adding support for Tang and SSS encryption tests within the RHCOS environment, requiring the setup and management of a Tang server, including its configuration within the build process. They addressed race conditions in the xinetd pid file management, and added cloud publication capabilities to allow artifacts to be published to cloud providers. The user also enhanced the QEMU environment, enabling the forwarding of multiple ports for testing purposes, and implemented changes to the build process and dependencies.
containerscoreosbuildsystemdockerassemble
mike-nguyen/installer
Dec 2019 - Mar 2025
Install an OpenShift cluster
Contributions:114 pushes, 38 branches in 5 years 4 months
openshiftk8skubernetesclusteropenshift-cluster
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