Ngan Pham
Application Infrastructure Lead
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNgan Pham is an Application Infrastructure Lead based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 14 years of experience building and scaling web platforms. Currently leading infrastructure efforts at Gusto, she brings deep hands-on expertise in Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, MySQL and a variety of legacy and modern languages from C/C++ to Perl and PHP. Previously she served as CTO at Listia, where she translated product vision into reliable systems and led engineering through growth phases. Ngan’s background blends strong engineering fundamentals from a UC Davis CS degree with practical operational chops honed across startups and established teams. She is comfortable navigating both code-level debugging and higher-level architecture, and she favors pragmatic, test-driven solutions (RSpec) that keep services healthy at scale. A detail-oriented leader, she also has an early-career appreciation for the humble joy of a first paycheck—evidence of long-standing practical engagement with the craft.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of California, Davis
Vietnamese
Github Skills (200)
testing10
stimulusjs10
linter10
cpp10
recaptcha10
turnip10
html10
audit10
static-code-analysis10
popup10
notification-service10
tooltip10
php10
aspect-ratio10
png10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ngan/rails
Nov 2022 - Mar 2025
Ruby on Rails
Contributions:18 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 4 months
ruby-on-railsrailsruby-onruby
Gusto/cb2
Oct 2019 - Dec 2023
Implementation of the circuit breaker pattern in Ruby, backed by Redis
Contributions:5 reviews, 1 branch, 1 comment in 4 years 2 months
circuit-breakerrediscircuit-breaker-patterncircuitruby
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