Ricky Nguyen
Software Engineer at Cloud Company
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRicky Nguyen is a seasoned software engineer and technical leader with 13+ years building high-performance networking and AI/ML infrastructure, currently designing and shipping Google Cloud's unified AI inference platform. He combines deep expertise in routing, ASIC/ASIC-adjacent systems, and data plane architectures with hands-on software architecture and team leadership across startups and large enterprises, including multiple successful acquisitions. Known for driving delivery through CI/CD, test-driven development, and practical engineering, he has reduced production defects and scaled systems used by major social media, e-commerce, and payments platforms. Equally comfortable in low-level protocol work (BGP/OSPF/MPLS/ACLs) and cloud-native serving on Kubernetes, he mentors teams to move fast without sacrificing correctness. A pragmatic problem-solver who credits “long weekends” and creative thinking for key wins, he thrives on translating complex algorithms into reliable, production-grade systems.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, Mathematics, BS, Computer Science, Mathematics at Boston University
Github Skills (78)
apache-spark10
python10
hadoop10
sink10
embedded10
cpp10
cloud-native10
streaming10
r10
big-data10
scale10
sql10
ai10
data-processing10
rust10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
lepfhty/corise-dagster
Nov 2022 - Aug 2024
Contributions:8 PRs, 7 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 9 months
lepfhty/kafka-connect-jdbc
Feb 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:14 pushes, 7 branches in 4 months
connectordatabasesdatabasekafka-connectkafka
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