Thanh Nguyen
Senior Software Engineer at University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThanh Nguyen is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience specializing in distributed systems, fault-tolerance, and large-scale data platforms. Based in Chicago, he leads development of the Gen3.org technology stack at the University of Chicago, powering multiple scientific commons that each manage petabyte-scale datasets and deploy across AWS, Azure, and IBM clouds. His work spans microservices, ETL, GraphQL-to-ElasticSearch middleware, and CI/CD foundations, enabling researchers worldwide to submit, index, and query massive genomic and biomedical data reliably. With a PhD-level research background in SDN and a postdoc project adopted by DE-CIX, he blends academic rigor with pragmatic engineering to solve production-grade scalability and dependability problems. Notably, he designed an ETL architecture that decouples schema changes from Spark aggregation logic, reducing developer rework and accelerating analytics.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Information Technology, 95, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Information Technology, 95 at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and TechnologyBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at VNUHCM - University of Science
English, Vietnamese
Github Skills (118)
python10
authentication10
metadata10
terraform10
automation10
commons10
terraform-cloud10
api10
jwt10
golang10
tushare10
risk-assessment10
data-integrity10
authz10
cloud-infrastructure10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
uc-cdis/gen3-spark
Aug 2018 - Aug 2024
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 16 PRs in 6 years 1 month
gen3
uc-cdis/tube
Jul 2018 - Jan 2023
ETL
Contributions:61 releases, 44 reviews, 240 commits in 4 years 7 months
etlgen3
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