Kevin Nguyen

Kevin Nguyen has a diverse work experience in the technology industry. Kevin began their career as a Software Engineering Intern at Qualcomm in 2010, where they gained hands-on experience in software development. Kevin then joined UCLA Theory Lab as a Research Assistant, where they focused on optimizing the Linux Scheduler for energy efficiency.

In 2012, Kevin joined Amazon as a Software Developer Engineer II. During their time at Amazon, they led a project to migrate from using Oracle to NoSQL, improving the availability and performance of storage by 40%. Kevin also won an organization-level hackathon by implementing a fast log searching service using Hadoop, EMR, and Ruby on Rails. Additionally, Kevin developed and launched a storage eventing solution using SQS, reducing Checkout latency by 50% for large purchases in North America.

Kevin's most recent role was as a Staff Engineer at GoGuardian, starting in 2015. Further details about their role and responsibilities at GoGuardian were not provided.

Kevin Nguyen obtained a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from UCLA, with a start year of 2008 and an end year of 2012. In addition to their degree, they also obtained several certifications, including OTP-AWS-D6: Amazon DynamoDB: Building NoSQL Database-Driven Applications from edX in June 2019, MemSQL 6 Administrator and MemSQL 6 Developer from MemSQL Training in September 2018, and Machine Learning from Coursera in December 2007.