Vietanh Nguyen
Principal Design Engineer at Uber
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVietanh Nguyen is a Principal Design Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with eight years of experience blending product-facing UX engineering and scalable frontend systems across Google and Uber. He has driven high-impact projects—from optimizing a billion-dollar Play Store purchase flow and launching store.google.com in 24 countries to leading Gallery product excellence and design reviews at Material Design—always pairing design craft with measurable business outcomes. Known for shipping polished cross-platform experiences and mentoring teams, he bridges visual language, motion, accessibility, and performance engineering. An active contributor to Google Fonts localization for Vietnamese, he brings care for cultural nuance and metadata accuracy to global products.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master Human-Computer Interaction, Master Human-Computer Interaction at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
English, Vietnamese, Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (10)
vlang10
lang10
spoken-language10
localization10
lan10
nam10
font-face9
fonts9
typography8
metadata-management7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
google/fonts
Jun 2019 - Jul 2021
Font files available from Google Fonts, and a public issue tracker for all things Google Fonts
Role in this project:
Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:11 commits, 6 PRs, 36 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Vietanh's primary contribution involves adding and modifying descriptions of fonts, particularly for Vietnamese language support. They added Vietnamese descriptions for fonts like Darker Grotesque, Be Vietnam, and Viaoda Libre, demonstrating a focus on language localization. Their work also includes refining existing English descriptions and ensuring accurate font metadata. This indicates a role centered on preparing the fonts for a global audience through language and cultural adaptation.
google-fontstrackerfontfontswoff
bettergui/BeVietnamPro
May 2021 - Aug 2021
open source Vietnamese font family for universal professional design
Contributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 12 pushes in 3 months
professionalwebfontsvariable-fontsopentypetruetype
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