Oliver Nguyen
Founding Software Engineer at OneSidebar
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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Top SchoolOliver Nguyen is a founding software engineer based in Ho Chi Minh City with 11 years of experience building production systems primarily in Go and JavaScript. He co-founded and leads engineering at Connectly.ai while shipping indie projects through OneSidebar, blending startup leadership with hands-on implementation. Oliver has deep backend chops demonstrated by contributions to Grafana's Pyroscope—adding storage tests, optimizing profile tree structures, and enabling flamegraph diff rendering to make performance debugging more precise. His background includes CTO and founding roles that combine product ownership with pragmatic engineering, and early experience in fintech at Payfriendz. Trained in computer science at Bach Khoa University, he prefers shipping measurable improvements over theoretical design and often focuses on tooling that surfaces hard-to-find performance issues.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science at Bach Khoa University (fomerly Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology)
English
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Github Skills (9)
go10
profiler10
profiling10
testing9
go-testing9
performance-analysis8
performance-monitor8
golang8
developer-tools8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/pyroscope
Jul 2021 - Aug 2021
Continuous Profiling Platform. Debug performance issues down to a single line of code
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 10 commits, 10 PRs in 27 days
Contributions summary:Oliver focused on enhancing the `pyroscope` project by implementing new features and improving existing ones related to profiling. Their contributions include adding tests for storage components, developing a decoding tool for flamebearer responses, and optimizing the tree data structure used for storing profile data. Furthermore, the user implemented diff rendering capabilities for flamegraphs, enhancing the project's functionality.
pythonobservabilitydeveloper-toolspyroscopemonitoring
iOliverNguyen/ujson
Feb 2019 - Aug 2021
µjson - A fast and minimal JSON parser and transformer that works on unstructured JSON
Contributions:4 releases, 2 reviews, 16 commits in 2 years 5 months
transformervalidparserjsonjson-parser
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