Summary
Nhat Phan is a Senior Software Engineer based in Seattle with 8 years of experience designing low-latency, resource-efficient distributed storage and service infrastructure at Google and prior systems work at AWS. He specializes in the interactions between threads, processes, and systems—covering synchronization, I/O multiplexing, zero-copy data paths, and consensus-level consistency—having shipped SmartNIC-accelerated virtual block storage and led E2E debugging of storage and VM root-cause issues. His background spans production-grade tooling from firmware test frameworks at AWS to full-stack bioinformatics web tools he single-handedly built and co-authored in academic work, showing a rare mix of systems programming, cloud reliability, and applied research. A logically driven technologist, he has a track record of automating complex deployments, improving disaster recovery and replication consistency, and reducing operational latency at scale. Notably, he pairs deep performance profiling and hardware-offload experience with practical security and service-infrastructure redesigns that enabled new GCP product launches.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School Degree, High School Degree at Manchester High School
Bachelors in Computer Science, Computer Science, Bachelors in Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Connecticut