Nhu Nguyen
Head Of DevRel at Celestia Labs
Odesa, Odesa Oblast, Germany
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Top SchoolNhu Nguyen is a pragmatic engineering leader with 10 years of experience who currently heads Developer Relations at Celestia Labs after progressing through DevOps and DevX leadership roles within the same organization. He combines hands-on backend engineering—contributing to notable open-source projects like Celestia node and Hardhat—with people leadership, having led cross-functional teams in DevOps, QA automation, and developer experience. Based in Odesa and now in Germany, Nhu has a strong track record of improving code quality, configuration/validation tooling, and test automation across blockchain and enterprise systems. Humble and curious, he applies a "Why-How-What" mindset to translate complex technical problems into clear developer workflows and resilient infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Odessa State Polytechnic University
Russian, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, English, German
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Github Skills (24)
solidity10
testing10
configuration-management10
typescript10
go10
ethereum10
typescript-types10
smart-contracts10
typescripts10
debug9
debugging9
data-structures8
data-structure8
blockchain8
javascript8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
celestiaorg/celestia-node
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Celestia Data Availability Nodes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:269 reviews, 13 commits, 87 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Nhu primarily contributed to the core functionalities of the Celestia node, including configurations, initialization, and repository interactions. They refactored code by renaming types, adding comments, and splitting lines for improved readability. Their work also involved test updates and applying new formatting to directories within the core and IPDL components, suggesting a focus on code quality and maintainability.
availabilitynodesdata-availability-samplingcelestiadata-availability
NomicFoundation/hardhat
Apr 2021 - May 2021
Hardhat is a development environment to compile, deploy, test, and debug your Ethereum software.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 10 commits, 4 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Nhu primarily contributed to the Hardhat core, focusing on bug fixes and improvements related to configuration and validation. They addressed issues in the solidity resolver, corrected errors in the config loading, and fixed errors in config validation by using new regex. Furthermore, the user implemented changes to improve error messages. The user also fixed lint errors, and updated the decimal validation.
stack-tracesethereumhardhatjavascriptevm
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