Peter Nguyen
Senior Engineer II - Big Data Platforms
Glendale, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Nguyen is a Senior Engineer II specializing in Big Data Platforms with eight years of hands-on experience building scalable, cloud-native data systems and developer-facing tooling at American Express. He blends deep systems knowledge—from Hadoop, Spark, and Hive to modern serverless and Kubernetes workflows—with full-stack fluency in Python, Java, NodeJS and React to deliver production-grade APIs, CI/CD pipelines, and data-localization solutions. Known for leading initiatives like automated AuthN/AuthZ synchronization, Micro UI adoption, and reactive async systems, he thrives on abstracting complexity into elegant, maintainable architectures. A minimalist engineer and active open-source maintainer, he spends free cycles crafting libraries on npm and GitHub while mentoring peers and refining his craft. Based in Glendale, AZ, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a lifelong curiosity about algorithms, functional programming, and infrastructure design.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaAssociate of Arts and Sciences - AAS, Computer Programming, Associate of Arts and Sciences - AAS, Computer Programming at Mesa Community College
English, Vietnamese
Github Skills (7)
react-boilerplate6
boilerplate6
infrastructure6
react6
webpack5
typescript5
caching3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pnguyen12/React-Cache-Image
Aug 2019 - Apr 2020
An image caching library for React ⚛️💵
Contributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 12 pushes in 8 months
reactjsreactcachingcaching-library
pnguyen12/react-music
Nov 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:19 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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