Philip Nguyen
Senior Software Engineer at HopSkipDrive
Reno, Nevada, United States
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Top SchoolPhilip Nguyen is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in Ruby on Rails, Elixir/Phoenix, and JavaScript, and a track record of shipping scalable backend services and developer-facing portals. He maintains the widely used Blueprinter serialization library, where he focused on performance benchmarking, Big O testing, and clearer API documentation. Philip has driven CI/CD and integration improvements in popular OSS tooling like danger and contributed reliability fixes to the yt YouTube API client, demonstrating strong backend and DevOps instincts. His career spans startups and scale-ups—from building financial transaction systems and data pipelines to enhancing third-party developer marketplaces—often bridging Ruby ecosystems with Kafka/Elixir and modern frontend tools. Based in Reno, NV, he blends practical engineering with an interest in agentic AI development and a background in supply chain and international business that informs his systems-thinking approach.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) International Marketing, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) International Marketing at Kwansei Gakuin UniversityB.S. International Business - Supply Chain Management, B.S. International Business - Supply Chain Management at University of Nevada, RenoCode Fellows
Vietnamese, Japanese, English
Github Skills (25)
ruby-rails10
benchmark10
github10
gitlab-ci10
youtube-api10
testing10
benchmarking10
rails10
data-serialization10
cicd10
serialization10
ruby10
gitlab10
automation10
automations10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
procore-oss/blueprinter
Sep 2017 - Aug 2020
Simple, Fast, and Declarative Serialization Library for Ruby
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 157 commits, 117 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Philip's contributions primarily focused on improving the performance and maintainability of the Blueprinter library. They added benchmark tests to assess the rendering speed of the serialization library and introduced Big O tests to analyze performance with increasing data volume. The user refactored code by renaming classes and methods to reflect the name change from PaintedRabbit to Blueprinter and added comprehensive documentation to explain the usage of the `render` method.
railspresenterresource-serializerdeclarativeserialization
nullscreen/yt
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
The reliable YouTube API Ruby client
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 6 PRs, 7 comments in 10 days
Contributions summary:Philip primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the YouTube API Ruby client. Their work focused on fixing bugs related to asset retrieval and rate limiting, and improving the library's functionality. They added features to handle content owner claims and enhanced the efficiency of video data loading, specifically including claims and assets, and updating versioning. These changes improved the reliability and functionality of the API client.
apirailsruby-clientrubyyoutube
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