Michelle Nguyen
Co-Founder at Gimlet Labs, Inc.
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichelle Nguyen is a software engineer and entrepreneur with 12 years of experience building developer-facing infrastructure and observability tools from the Bay Area. As Co-Founder of Gimlet Labs she’s focused on next-generation AI infrastructure—shipping projects like automated kernel generation and an Agent Cloud—after helping launch Pixie as a founding engineer where she built machine intelligence systems that let developers monitor and secure applications without code changes. Her background spans startups and R&D roles, plus teaching database and UI courses at UC Berkeley, reflecting strong foundations in systems, data, and human-centered design. Comfortable moving between research and production, she combines hands-on engineering with product intuition to turn complex AI and observability ideas into practical developer tools.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Master of Science (M.S.) Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (122)
opensearch10
vega10
ebpf10
apache-arrow10
cloud-native10
monitoring10
charts10
pandas10
kubernetes-operator10
relic10
golang10
database10
kubernetes10
observability10
storage10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
mrosecrance/CS160-Speech-Tutor
Apr 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:46 commits in 1 month
pixie-io/pixie
Aug 2018 - Jan 2023
Instant Kubernetes-Native Application Observability
Contributions:408 reviews, 1771 commits, 301 PRs in 4 years 5 months
pixieobservabilitymonitoringkubernetes-nativeeks
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