Zen Nguyen
Senior Software Engineer at Capital One
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZen Nguyen is a Senior Software Engineer based in Los Angeles with 11 years of experience building and modernizing enterprise systems, currently driving engineering work at Capital One after leading service-oriented transformations at Moody's Analytics. He specializes in breaking monoliths into nimble services, advocating for tooling, automation, and TDD, and pairing hands-on coding with architectural guidance and mentoring. Comfortable across the full stack, he focuses on performance, observability (logging/tracing/monitoring), and pragmatic engineering standards that teams can adopt. A self-starter and former iOS developer, he combines an electrical/computer science background from UW–Madison with a builder’s mindset—dreaming to build and building to dream—often exploring CNCF open-source tools in proofs of concept.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Wisconsin-MadisonWest Springfield HS
Vietnamese, English
Github Skills (50)
moleculer9
soa9
nodejs9
openid7
distributed-systems7
gateway7
rocket7
microservices7
microservice-framework7
winston6
oauth6
earth6
api6
progressive6
authentication6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
giang12/winston-kafka-connect
Sep 2017 - Dec 2018
Contributions:6 releases, 20 commits, 19 pushes in 1 year 2 months
giang12/lucy
Oct 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:49 commits, 36 pushes, 2 comments in 2 months
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