Nam Nguyen
Senior Software Engineer at MongoDB
Bruchsal, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolNam Nguyen is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building high-performance, distributed systems focused on scalability and orchestration. He has shipped production work at MongoDB and Datadog, contributing to Kubernetes integrations and operator tooling that improve reliability and testability for widely used open-source projects. At IBM and Canonical he developed DBaaS and cloud orchestration components in Go and Python, routinely optimizing performance and fixing subtle race conditions in distributed agents. Comfortable across backend and frontend stacks, Nam combines deep systems work (Go, Kubernetes, operators) with practical DevOps experience to streamline CI/CD and developer workflows. He also teaches applied topics at German universities, bringing real-world engineering and research-informed practices into the classroom. A detail-oriented contributor, he often focuses on improving diagnostics, test infrastructure, and reproducibility—work that pays dividends for large-scale cloud deployments.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Software Engineering at Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW)Master of Science - MS Practical Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Practical Computer Science at FernUniversität in HagenMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Business Informatics & Service Management, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Business Informatics & Service Management at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
German, Vietnamese, French, English
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Github Skills (33)
kubernetes10
testing10
bash10
containerization10
mongodb-database10
automation10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
automations10
orchestration10
orchestra10
mongodb10
observability9
monitoring9
cicd9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/datadog-agent
Jun 2020 - Dec 2022
Main repository for Datadog Agent
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:355 reviews, 124 commits, 140 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Nam primarily contributed to the Datadog Agent, focusing on Kubernetes integration. Their work included adding the collection of init containers, detecting Kubernetes pod phase changes, and collecting requests and limits for Kubernetes resources. They were also involved in generating unique UIDs for static pods and optimizing the container scrubbing process for better performance.
datadogmonitoringgoapm-agentapm-instrumentation
mongodb/mongodb-kubernetes-operator
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
MongoDB Community Kubernetes Operator
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:161 reviews, 15 commits, 141 PRs in 19 days
Contributions summary:Nam's contributions primarily focused on improving the development and testing infrastructure for the MongoDB Kubernetes Operator. They added diagnostic logging and configuration options for the development environment. Key contributions include updating the e2e test suite, improving error reporting, and implementing fixes for race conditions related to the MongoDB agent, including the addition of verbose agent logs. The user also made improvements to the build process, including installing prerequisites like telepresence, and added owner references to scram secrets.
kubernetes-operatormongodb
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