Vu Nguyen
Senior Software Engineer Senior Application Architect
Fremont, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVu Nguyen is a Senior Software Engineer and Application Architect based in the San Francisco Bay Area with over a decade of experience building high-performance Android and iOS apps and leading cross-functional teams across APAC, EMEA, and the US. He has repeatedly driven measurable business impact—reducing development costs by 40%, improving app ratings to 5 stars, and delivering sub-3-second transaction histories—while owning end-to-end architecture and CI/CD. Vu blends mobile-native expertise (Swift, Kotlin, Objective-C) with backend systems experience, having contributed to Netflix’s popular rend memcached proxy to optimize data chunking and metrics. Comfortable both mentoring distributed teams and shipping product-focused features like Buy Now Pay Later and analytics-driven growth hooks, he favors pragmatic, testable architecture (MVVM, Clean Architecture, Rx) that scales. His background spans fintech, streaming, and retail, and he brings a hands-on, metrics-driven approach to improving reliability and customer experience.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Maharishi International UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at VNUHCM - University of Science
Github Skills (4)
memcached10
go10
caching10
metric8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Netflix/rend
Mar 2016 - Aug 2016
A memcached proxy that manages data chunking and L1 / L2 caches
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 6 PRs, 8 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Vu contributed to the `netflix/rend` repository by implementing and enhancing the memcached proxy's functionality. Their work included adding support for features like retrieving values with expiration times, modifying the handling of batch responses, and improving metrics collection by addressing an initialization issue. These changes focused on core data handling and optimizing the proxy's performance and feature set. Further contributions included modifications to the existing codebase related to handling binary protocol.
chunkingmemcacheproxycachecaches
vuzilla/rocksdb
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:1 PR, 1 branch in 1 day
fast-storagedatabasekey-value-storestoragepersistent
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