Tan Nguyen
Staff Engineer at Smartly
Vantaa, Mainland Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolTan Nguyen is a Staff Engineer with 14 years of experience building resilient, full-stack systems across payments, logistics, ad tech and consumer platforms from Helsinki's metro area. He architects and simplifies complex backends—event-sourcing order flows, IMEI-driven fulfillment, and ad rotation/trigger systems—while championing pragmatic, testable code and isolating technical debt. Comfortable across TypeScript, Python, Postgres, Kubernetes and streaming/queue technologies, he moves between hands-on implementation and team-level architecture work to multiply delivery speed. Tan contributes to front-end open source (improving Bootstrap Colorpicker’s standalone and vertical modes), reflecting a habitual preference for practical UX improvements. He’s known for cutting scope to deliver valuable alphas and for designing systems that measurably speed warehouse and campaign operations.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree Computer Software Engineering at Åbo Akademi UniversityBachelor Information Technology, Bachelor Information Technology at RMIT University
Vietnamese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
color-picker10
javascript10
jquery10
bootstrap10
css10
responsive-design10
user-interface10
bootstra10
nodejs9
lessc9
html9
pug6
ejs6
php6
underscorejs6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
itsjavi/bootstrap-colorpicker
Nov 2013 - Dec 2013
Bootstrap Colorpicker is a modular color picker plugin for Bootstrap.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 23 days
Contributions summary:Tan focused on enhancing the functionality and user experience of the Bootstrap Colorpicker plugin. Their contributions included adding the "container" option for standalone components and enabling vertical display mode for improved responsiveness. The user also updated the documentation to reflect new features and integrated standalone and vertical mode examples into the `index.html` and `less/bootstrap-colorpicker.less` files. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the plugin's flexibility and usability.
bootstrap4bootstrap-componentsjquerybootstrap3colorpicker
tanqhnguyen/backbone.supermodel
Jan 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:49 commits, 5 pushes, 1 tag in 1 year 3 months
phpimprovedbackbone
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