Timothy Nguyen
Staff Software Engineer at Fortinet
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTimothy Nguyen is a Staff Software Engineer based in San Jose with nine years of experience building and leading teams at security-focused startups. He was a founding engineer at Cyral and progressed to Engineering Manager and Staff Engineer roles, shaping core platform components, product design, and customer-facing delivery for a Series B data security company. More recently he held short staff engineering stints at Lacework and now Fortinet, demonstrating a focus on cloud and security engineering at scale. His background in statistics and early work in scientific computing and VR signal a strong data-driven approach to engineering and experimentation. Colleagues describe him as someone who balances hands-on technical ownership with pragmatic product thinking and field engagement. Outside the obvious, he has a track record of shipping durable platform code from the earliest product stages that remains in production years later.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Statistics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Statistics at UC Santa Barbara
English, Vietnamese, Spanish
Github Skills (30)
authenticate10
authentication9
security8
databases7
data-access7
database6
scanning5
access-control5
authorization5
agent5
bounding5
scraper5
spring5
observability5
double4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Njfritter/class-listings-scraper
Apr 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:27 commits in 5 months
scraperscrapingpythonweb-scraper
timothydnguyen/sql_de_mayo
Apr 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:50 commits, 45 pushes, 1 branch in 19 days
springsqlmysqlworkshop
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