Summary
Thien Nguyen is a chief architect based in the San Francisco Bay Area with seven years of professional software engineering experience spanning startups and major tech firms. He has built infrastructure and data systems at Google, Uber, Snap, and Meta, then moved to lead design of an ambitious stealth startup focused on AI agents and autonomous workflow economies. Thien’s background combines large-scale geo and mapping systems, real-time data pipelines, and SDK development, enabling him to translate complex distributed problems into production-ready services. He is particularly experienced in turning vast, noisy telemetry into actionable products—evident from map indexing and visitation attribution engines at Uber and Snap. At his current role he’s pioneering agentic AI that coordinates multiple LLM-powered workers to automate tasks and earn compensation, blending technical systems thinking with product-driven experimentation. Comfortable across backend, tooling, and platform domains, he brings a pragmatic architect’s eye to emergent AI-driven business models.
7 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science, Computer Science, Associate of Science, Computer Science at Seattle Central College
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
VNU-HCM High School for the Gifted
VNUHCM - University of Science
Vietnamese, English