Quang Nguyen
Software Engineer at Microsoft
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolQuang Nguyen is a software engineer with nine years of experience specializing in container networking at Microsoft Azure. He focuses on data plane components, iptables parsing/conversion, traffic analysis, and SNAT rule implementation for Linux and Windows containers, contributing to the widely used azure-container-networking project. At Microsoft he progressed from intern roles—building an Azure IPAM plugin and improving Azure NPM observability—to a full-time engineer shipping production-grade networking features. He pairs systems-level networking expertise with practical backend engineering, including experiments with protocol buffers and comprehensive testing. Based in the United States, he holds a BS and MS in Computer Science from Boston University and brings a blend of academic rigor and hands-on open-source impact. An interesting detail: he has repeatedly improved debuggability and tooling around network policy, showing a knack for making complex network behavior more observable and maintainable.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at British Vietnamese International School HanoiBachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science at Boston University
English, Vietnamese
Github Skills (12)
network10
network-configuration10
azure10
container10
go10
microsoft-azure10
networking10
iptables10
protocol-buffers9
kubernetes-networking9
linux-containers8
test-driven-design7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-container-networking
Aug 2021 - Aug 2022
Azure Container Networking Solutions for Linux and Windows Containers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:356 reviews, 8 commits, 99 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Quang's primary focus was on developing and maintaining the data plane and related components within the Azure Container Networking project. This included extensive work on an iptables parser, converter, and traffic analyzer, involving code refactoring, adding new features like negation parsing, and implementing comprehensive testing. The user also experimented with protocol buffer integration and implemented various supporting structs and functions, demonstrating expertise in network configuration and data processing within the container environment. The user also developed and integrated SNAT iptables rules.
containerswindowscontainer-networkingkubernetes-networkinglinux
microsoft/retina
Mar 2024 - Apr 2025
eBPF distributed networking observability tool for Kubernetes
Contributions:1 release, 580 reviews, 507 PRs in 1 year
ebpfkubernetesnetworkingobservability
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