Nick Nguyen
Senior Engineering Manager, Tenant Scale at GitLab
Spring Grove, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Nguyen is a senior engineering manager with 13 years building and scaling core platform and data infrastructure teams, currently leading Tenant Scale at GitLab. He has deep hands-on experience with databases and search technologies—having led GitLab’s Data Stores group responsible for PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, and Global Search—while also driving Geo replication and third-party ecosystem integrations. Nick pairs technical depth across backend, cloud, and full-stack stacks with proven people leadership, managing 30+ engineers across multiple teams. Earlier roles span founding a web consultancy, shipping high-usage consumer tools at RotoGrinders, and running a multi-location retail business where he built internal ops software—evidence of strong product instincts and operational grit. Based in Minnesota and grounded in applied math and economics from UC Berkeley, he’s comfortable translating complex reliability and scale challenges into pragmatic roadmaps and deliverables.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BA Economics Applied Math, BA Economics Applied Math at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (13)
points5
google-chrome-extension5
stimulusjs4
google-chrome4
activemodel4
virtual-machine3
rails3
ruby3
yahoo3
ruby-on-rails3
chrome-extension3
chrome2
matcher1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
nickyvu/fanduel-helper
Jan 2014 - Feb 2014
Contributions:11 commits in 1 month
swanson/shark-bait
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:3 commits in 1 day
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