Viet Truong
Principal Software Engineer at PlayStation
Irvine, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolViet Truong is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience leading UI and platform engineering across console, mobile, and web in the gaming space. He specializes in enabling designers and creative partners to realize ambitious interfaces, favoring engineering that empowers product creativity over building flashy UI for its own sake. At Riot Games and previously Undead Labs and PlayStation, he’s led cross-functional teams, shipped major features like TFT’s first limited-time event mode, and helped launch PlayStation Now on Windows. He co-collaborated with Mojang to open-source a React-based game UI library and has a strong practical focus on TypeScript and performant web-driven game UI. Known for elevating team practices—automating design handoff, establishing architecture standards, and mentoring successors—he thrives in inclusive environments where every voice matters. Based in Irvine, CA, he’s a self-described “web apologist” who pairs deep systems thinking with a gamer’s passion (Shadow of the Colossus is a noted favorite).
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at San Diego State University
English, Vietnamese
Github Skills (28)
webapp10
typescript9
compiler8
testcafe7
dts6
typescript-definitions6
nodejs5
browser5
test-framework5
testing5
javascript4
socket4
functional-testing4
e2e4
hammer4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
viettruong2194/ttnmachining
Dec 2014 - Mar 2016
Contributions:5 commits, 1 push in 1 year 3 months
thegitsteam/TheGits
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:23 PRs, 39 pushes, 43 branches in 26 days
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