Steven Nguyen
Sr Staff Software Engineer at Affirm
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Nguyen is a Sr Staff Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 14 years of experience building reliable, scalable systems across fintech and SaaS. Currently leading platform and architecture efforts at Affirm, he previously advanced core engineering at Zendesk through staff and senior roles, bringing deep practical expertise in production-grade services. Trained at the National University of Singapore with further technopreneurship study at Stanford, he blends strong software engineering fundamentals with product-minded leadership. Known for steady delivery rather than job-hunting, he excels at mentoring teams, stabilizing complex systems, and translating business needs into pragmatic technical roadmaps. An engineer comfortable across mobile-era startups and large-scale cloud platforms, he often focuses on long-lived, maintainable solutions that reduce operational toil.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Minor in Technopreneurship, Management Science and Engineering, Minor in Technopreneurship, Management Science and Engineering at Stanford Center for Professional DevelopmentBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Certificate of Distinction in Software Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Certificate of Distinction in Software Engineering at National University of Singapore
Vietnamese, English
Github Skills (55)
docker-image10
inspector10
programming-language9
middleware9
tui9
docker9
gorilla9
golang9
cli9
http-router9
csrf-protection8
travis8
go8
router8
archlinux8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
trungnn/dotfiles
Oct 2015 - Jan 2022
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 4 months
trungnn/sialia
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:33 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 20 days
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