Summary
Van Nguyen is a Senior Software and System Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native platforms, PaaS/IaaS services, and DevOps tooling, currently driving infrastructure and platform work at gridscale GmbH. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Go, Python, Terraform, Packer, Ansible and CI/CD with a solid academic foundation (BSc Software Engineering, MSc Computer Science) to craft and maintain production-grade OpenStack drivers, providers and autoscalers. His background spans e-learning, ERP and cloud providers, and he has a track record of designing test suites and scalable backends that handle thousands of requests per second. Founder of the Vietnamese Gopher Community and creator of high-throughput Golang projects, he blends open-source stewardship with pragmatic engineering. Notably, he pairs system-level engineering with practical ML-driven tooling (a Golang Facebook crawler demo) that reflects a curiosity for applying simple, efficient solutions at scale.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Software Engineering at Swansea University / Prifysgol Abertawe
International Foundation Year (Engineering/Science Pathway) Computer Engineering, International Foundation Year (Engineering/Science Pathway) Computer Engineering at University of South Wales
Master of Science - MSc Computer Science, Master of Science - MSc Computer Science at The University of Bonn