Sophia Nguyen
Staff Engineer at Apply Digital
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSophia Nguyen is a Staff Engineer in Vancouver with a decade of software experience and a specialty in front-end and mobile development using React, React Native, TypeScript, and related web technologies. She has progressed from Android intern work at BlackBerry to leading frontend teams and defining technical architecture and delivery for clients like Disney, Moderna, and Arc'teryx at Apply Digital. Her background is unusually interdisciplinary—holding degrees in computer science, zoology, and musicology—and she leverages research, data visualization, and UX sensibilities to build human-centered products. As a mentor and technology lead she focuses on sustainable developer culture, hiring, and translating complex stakeholder needs into pragmatic architectures. She’s committed to supporting marginalized communities in tech and often brings quantitative research habits (from lab and archival work) to product analytics and dashboarding. Describing herself as “coding my way out of a box,” she combines creative problem-solving with rigorous engineering discipline.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at The University of British ColumbiaBachelor of Science (BS), Zoology/Animal Biology, Bachelor of Science (BS), Zoology/Animal Biology at The University of Calgary
English, Vietnamese
Github Skills (16)
javascript8
typescript7
android5
keychain4
ios4
react4
react-native4
keystore4
typechecker2
mongodb2
react-dnd1
type-check1
superset1
nodejs1
to-do1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sopianguyen/MERN_shopping_list
May 2019 - Feb 2022
A shopping list built with the MERN stack
Contributions:4 PRs, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
reactexpressjsjavascriptmernexpress
leonore13/hamster_wheel
Apr 2016 - May 2019
Contributions:7 PRs, 50 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 1 month
testingderp
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