Summary
Tim Nguyen is a Principal Software Engineer based in Palo Alto with a decade of experience building scalable infrastructure and production-ready intelligent systems across consumer, automotive, and AI startups. His career spans senior engineering roles at Meta and Rivian, a technical staff role at Apple, and a recent founder/CTO stint at RedOak AI, reflecting both deep execution skills and product-minded leadership. At Zillow he now focuses on large-scale, reliable systems while bringing an operator’s perspective from founding a startup. Known for turning research-grade models into production services, he blends systems engineering with practical ML deployment experience. Colleagues would note his pattern of moving between cutting-edge product teams and infrastructure work, signaling comfort with complexity and rapid iteration.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
California State University, Northridge
Spanish, Vietnamese, English