Tiffany Nguyen
Founder & Principal Recruiter at StartupExperts
Redwood City, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTiffany Nguyen is a founder and principal technical recruiter with 11 years of hands-on recruiting and talent leadership experience and a 16+ year career footprint in the tech ecosystem. She builds and scales engineering teams globally from the SF Bay Area to NYC, Austin, Europe, Asia and Australia through her firm GreenSpark Talent while advising startups and serving as a general partner focused on talent. Tiffany’s background includes senior talent roles at fast-growing companies like AppDynamics, Delphix, and Haven, giving her deep expertise in placing engineering leaders and shaping people strategies across multiple regions. Unusually for a recruiter, she pairs recruiting instincts with technical fluency—contributing to open-source systems work on performance and back-end improvements for the widely used OpenZFS project. Her approach blends operational rigor from a MIS degree with entrepreneurial drive, enabling rapid hiring at scale without sacrificing candidate quality or long-term fit. She’s known for pragmatic talent programs that align hiring velocity with engineering performance metrics.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Management Information Systems, B.S. Management Information Systems at Santa Clara University
English, Vietnamese, Spanish
Github Skills (16)
c1710
performance-tuning10
openzfs10
performance-monitor10
performance-analysis10
performance-analytics10
performance-monitoring10
c1110
performance-measurement10
sys9
filesystem9
system9
systemd9
bash8
script8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
openzfs/zfs
May 2018 - Aug 2021
OpenZFS on Linux and FreeBSD
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Performance Engineer
Back-end Developer & Performance EngineerContributions:106 reviews, 13 commits, 59 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Tiffany primarily focused on improving the performance and efficiency of the ZFS codebase. Their contributions involved optimizing write operations by leveraging `dmu_read_by_dnode()` and adjusting scheduling parameters for better interrupt coalescing. They also implemented functionality to collect profiling data for performance tests. Additionally, the user addressed issues with stack tracing within the ZFS test suite and made adjustments to test scripts for improved functionality.
openzfstarballlinuxfreebsdsystem-software
tonynguien/zfs
May 2018 - May 2021
ZFS on Linux - the official OpenZFS implementation for Linux.
Contributions:43 pushes, 13 branches, 1 comment in 3 years
openzfslinux-distributionlinuxzfsinitramfs
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