Tomasz Nguyen
Senior Engineering Manager Staff Engineer II at Confluent
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTomasz Nguyen is a Senior Engineering Manager and Staff Engineer with 12 years’ experience building and leading high-performing cloud-native teams from London. He splits time between hands-on engineering and management, having hired and fast-tracked top-performing engineers at Confluent while architecting customer-facing workload management features for the Flink SQL launch. A pragmatic full-stack engineer, Tomasz has deep Kubernetes and containerization expertise (notably contributions to garden-io/garden and Kaniko improvements) and strong backend experience in stream-processing and reliability from work on ksqlDB and bors-ng. He brings a mathematical mindset from Imperial College to system design and mentoring, combining SCRUM-driven delivery with a track record of shipping robust, production-grade tooling. An unglamorous but telling detail: teammates consistently rank in the company’s top percentiles under his leadership, reflecting both technical and coaching impact.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics MSci Mathematics, Mathematics MSci Mathematics at Imperial College London
Polish, English
Github Skills (40)
kubernetes10
decimals10
docker10
github10
back-end-development10
elixir10
testing10
kaniko10
bigdecimal10
kafka10
decimal-numbers10
containerization10
dockers10
cicd10
java10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
confluentinc/ksql
Jan 2021 - Aug 2022
The database purpose-built for stream processing applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:111 reviews, 42 commits, 72 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Tomasz contributed to the ksqlDB project, focusing on back-end development tasks. They enhanced the DECIMAL column description by adding precision and scale details, and fixed a bug related to a mutable subscriber field within a websocket endpoint. Further contributions involved refactoring the executor by introducing a class to merge local and remote results, adding an executor for fetching remote source descriptions, and encapsulating cluster-wide query metrics. These changes demonstrate a focus on data type handling, websocket management, and distributed query execution.
materialized-viewsstream-processingstreaming-queriesksqldbsql
garden-io/garden
Feb 2020 - Jul 2020
Automation for Kubernetes development and testing. Spin up production-like environments for development, testing, and CI on demand. Use the same configuration and workflows at every step of the process. Speed up your builds and test runs via shared result caching
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:12 commits, 11 PRs, 21 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Tomasz primarily focused on improving the Kubernetes build and deployment processes within the `garden-io/garden` repository. Their commits include changes related to Kaniko, a tool for building container images, including bumping versions, making the Kaniko image configurable, and adding flags to the Kaniko builders. They also modified build sync and cleanup processes within the cluster, as well as the build tooling, optimizing builds and the use of remote registries. This work demonstrates an understanding of containerization and Kubernetes deployment strategies.
developer-toolscontinuous-integrationtesting-toolsproductionkubernetes-development
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