Nguyen Nguyen
Software Engineer at Swell (Open Source)
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolNguyen Nguyen is a full-stack software engineer based in San Diego with five years of experience building TypeScript-forward React and Node.js applications backed by SQL and NoSQL databases. At Swell (OS Labs) he shipped tRPC testing support, leveraged TypeScript for safer, self-documenting code, and integrated Redux, Material-UI, and Electron-Builder to deliver cross-platform, production-ready developer tooling. Trained in Cognitive Science and Human-Computer Interaction at UC San Diego, he brings a user-centered perspective to complex front-end and state-management problems. He balances pragmatic engineering with curiosity—often prototyping interactions inspired by strategic games like chess and Civilization—and maintains a disciplined, outdoors-oriented lifestyle that fuels long-term focus. His GitHub (nqnguyen1) reflects a hands-on approach to open-source collaboration and tooling that bridges developer ergonomics and reliable shipping.
5 years of coding experience
University of California, San Diego
Github Skills (15)
postman10
endpoint10
streaming9
streaming-api9
endpoints9
server-sent-events9
sse9
api9
monitoring8
testing8
rest7
grpc7
graphql7
websocket7
trpc5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Red-Lipped-Batfish-CTRI16/trendy
May 2023 - Mar 2024
Contributions:8 reviews, 15 PRs, 17 pushes in 9 months
oslabs-beta/Swell
Jun 2023 - Jul 2023
Swell: API development tool that enables developers to test endpoints served over streaming technologies including Server-Sent Events (SSE), WebSockets, HTTP2, GraphQL, gRPC, and tRPC..
Contributions:3 reviews, 9 PRs, 24 pushes in 14 days
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