Richard Nguyen
Software Engineer at DeepMind
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Nguyen is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building user-facing systems and tools, currently contributing to DeepMind from London. He has a strong front-end pedigree—demonstrated by sustained contributions to the Guardian’s flagship frontend repo where he shipped UI components for ads, galleries and newsletter flows and tackled responsive/CSS challenges. His career spans product-focused engineering at Google and leadership as Senior Developer Team Lead at The Guardian, plus early game-tools and audio engineering at Rare, giving him a rare blend of consumer web, large-scale platform, and real-time systems experience. Richard holds an MEng in Computer Systems and Software Engineering from the University of York and is comfortable moving between hands-on implementation and team-facing technical leadership. Notably, his background in game tools and audio engineering suggests a practical, systems-minded approach to UI and tooling problems that complements his web expertise.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MEng (Hons), Computer Systems and Software Engineering, MEng (Hons), Computer Systems and Software Engineering at University of York
Github Skills (7)
html10
css10
javascript10
user-interface10
front-end-development10
responsive-design9
react8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
guardian/frontend
May 2013 - Jan 2019
The Guardian DotCom.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3928 commits, 995 PRs, 1345 pushes in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily focused on front-end development within the repository. They implemented and maintained various UI elements, including components for advertisements, email newsletter signups, and gallery features. Furthermore, the user was involved in managing the appearance of these elements with CSS modifications, including styling pages for pageskin advertisements, contributing to responsive design, and ensuring accurate display across different devices. Their commits show a focus on improving user experience, with the implementation of functionality such as the display of an opt-in banner and the addition of a progress display in a gallery.
productionguardian
rich-nguyen/bamboo-workshop
Sep 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:46 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 7 months
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