Quan Nguyen
Senior Engineering Manager at Independent Consultant
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolQuan Nguyen is a seasoned engineering leader with two decades of software development and product experience, currently serving as Senior Engineering Manager at Elastic in Ottawa. He combines hands-on technical delivery—from C++ firmware and security products to cloud-native Python/Django and Kubernetes systems—with people-first leadership that emphasizes mentoring, psychological safety, and measurable outcomes. Quan has built and scaled security and observability products, led geographically distributed teams across EMEA and NASA partners, and driven startup growth as a CTO while collaborating on ML research for code analysis. Known for balancing technical depth with empathetic management, he brings a pragmatic focus on OKRs, roadmaps, and cross-functional collaboration to turn complex requirements into shipped products.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
B. Eng, Systems & Computer Engineering, B. Eng, Systems & Computer Engineering at Carleton University
Github Skills (87)
heartbeat10
perl10
integrations10
linter10
elasticsearch10
visualizations10
sarif10
common-schema10
packetbeat10
logstash10
metricbeat10
observability10
filebeat10
sast10
elastic10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
reshift-projects/find-sec-bugs-demos
Jan 2020 - Mar 2020
Repository to showcase various configuration recipes with various technologies
Contributions:99 PRs, 107 branches in 2 months
recipestechnologiesconfiguration-recipesansibleshowcase
softwaresecured/payloads
Dec 2018 - Sep 2019
One payload database to rule them all
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
pythonrulepayloadmethodologydatabase
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