Truc Nguyen

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

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Truc Nguyen is a Senior Software Engineer based in Cambridge with a strong background in large-scale data platforms and distributed systems, backed by a PhD in software verification. Over eight years she has built petabyte-scale data solutions and real-time pipelines across AWS, Snowflake, Kubernetes, and Spark, most recently contributing to Confluent's Kafka REST proxy where she improved leader-election checks and implemented admin rate limiting for reliability. Her work blends rigorous research-grade verification skills with pragmatic engineering—she has published tooling for concurrent program analysis and applied that precision to production systems. Comfortable across backend services, infrastructure-as-code, and data engineering, she brings both hands-on implementation and system design experience. Colleagues know her for reducing code duplication through well-factored abstractions and for focusing on performance-sensitive features that improve operational resilience.

3 years of coding experience

Github Skills (11)

javas10

api-rest10

rest-api10

kafka10

api-design10

java10

restful-api10

schema9

testing9

confluent9

rate-limiting9

Programming languages (5)

JavaShellCGoPython

Github contributions (5)

confluentinc/kafka-rest

Jan 2023 - Jan 2023

Confluent REST Proxy for Kafka

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:186 reviews, 15 commits, 137 PRs in 15 days

Contributions summary:Truc contributed to the Kafka REST proxy, focusing on core functionalities and integration testing. They modified code to ensure proper leader election checks within the SchemaRegistryRestApplication in both the main code and integration tests. Furthermore, the user implemented rate limiting features for admin endpoints, involving configuration options and cache management, indicating a focus on performance and reliability. The changes involved adding new configuration variables and creating new classes to avoid code repetition.

schema-registryproxyconfluent-cloudrest-proxyrest

trnguyencflt/rest-utils

Dec 2022 - Apr 2023

Utilities and a small framework for building REST services with Jersey, Jackson, and Jetty.

Contributions:27 pushes, 7 branches in 3 months

apijavalinjerseyrestjetty

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