Engineering Team Lead with a proven track record of leading, designing, and shipping cross-platform, enterprise-grade “Universal JavaScript” projects in both open and closed source. Experienced in building strong engineering teams by cultivating effective culture (for on-site and remote teams), mentoring, and constantly engaging my team. Full-stack technical architect & designer: distinguished technical ability (up and down the stack) and strong background in UI/UX. I enjoy and rise up to challenges. Surround me with other brilliant, hard-working people and I will surpass expectations. I fit in environments where even the lowliest employee can make a huge contribution to the company. I hunger to learn and ask why. I'm not looking for a job as much as a MISSION to devote myself to! Specialties: Leadership, full-stack development, Node.js, JavaScript, Hapi.js, Famo.us, Operations, cloud server administration, Amazon AWS (experience with EC2, S3, SQS, SNS), node-webkit, Coffee-Script, React, Cassandra, Redis, MongoDB, Python, Ruby, Git, GitHub, config management, web architecture design, Mac OSX, Tornado Web, PHP, Web Design, 3D Graphics, Animation, Graphic Design, HTML, CSS, User Interfaces, User Experience (UI/UX).

Staff Software Engineer @ Wyncera is full-stack "Universal"​ JavaScript design firm offering mobile/web application design services, JavaScript training, and consulting. "Let us build beautiful, enterprise-grade web & mobile applications for you. Whether you are a small startup or an enterprise corporation, we can build what you need." From July 2015 to Present (6 months) Senior Software Engineer, Full-Stack, IDEA (Big Data) @ IDEA is Intuit's Big Data department - it is responsible for collecting, processing, and managing Intuit's massive amounts of data across its various products from TurboTax to Mint. Was a hands-on leader of a team of four to build a new, high-performance "Universal JavaScript"​ stack for building mobile & web applications (using Node.js, hapi.js, React, React-Router, Redux, etc). The stack was used to build a tool, "Data Trader"​, for efficiently managing the design and governance of Big Data metadata. Responsible for all UI/UX design (cross-browser, efficient implementation), JavaScript code reviews, JavaScript training & mentoring (including ES2015/ES6), unit test coverage management (e.g. brought one project's coverage from 2% to 52.9% in less than two days, goal was for 3 months), and robust architecture design. SWE Interview Committee: Member of "Warrior"​ Coding Skills Interviewers From March 2015 to October 2015 (8 months) Lead Engineer @ Was a hands-on leader on multiple, exciting full-stack projects involving Node.js, Hapi.js, mobile devices, and Bluetooth Low Energy. Led the development of In-Store product “Fast Pickup” aka “Express Checkin” (5000+ stores). Responsible for Proof-of-Concept, designed architecture, project plans, and infrastructure operations. Also responsible for coordinating/delegating final product responsibilities between multiple departments. Generally responsible for giving performance reviews & mentoring, for interviewing prospective candidates, for ensuring that projects minimize defects by employing best practices, for designing software, network, & deployment architectures, for designing processes for effective remote work across teams, and for performing rigorous analysis of present and future projects. Previously, provided engineering and technical support to high-profile internal teams experiencing technical hurdles and cross-disciplinary issues. Before that, I analyzed several "sinking ship" projects and then enabled them to deliver on time, on spec, and on budget: - Pharmacy Mobile Services: Led team of three to get ahead of schedule, implemented test coverage, logging and reverse-engineered required security protocols to unblock the team. - Mobile Photos: In first hour, enabled 8000% performance increase; later, redesigned architecture to enable success. From July 2013 to March 2015 (1 year 9 months) Sr. Software Engineer @ Hacking on Mobile Services and open-source projects (Node.js). Co-author of hapi.js. Creator of spumko modules: joi, travelogue, flod. hapi is a popular Node.js web framework designed and built specifically for real production use. At WalmartLabs' #nodebf, it withstood the intense barrage of Black Friday users whilst only using From February 2012 to March 2015 (3 years 2 months) Instructor @ I teach Introduction to Node.js at Codelesson.com. The curriculum is experimental & iterative. It is focused around practical examples that each illustrate best practices and build good habits. From January 2011 to January 2012 (1 year 1 month) Co-founder, COO/CTO @ "A delicious way to meet." Spoondate lets you share your tastes, talk about them, and meet others with similar taste profiles. Currently available on Web, iPhone, Android, and Mobile Web formats. Featured in Time magazine, Fortune, WSJ, ABC7, Forbes, Mashable, TechCrunch. Spoondate ran on an entirely CoffeeScript stack of my own design: all lines of code boil down to JavaScript - from ops, to database queries, to backend API, to frontend UI. The stack was highly flexible, incredibly fast to develop in, and was an absolute pleasure to work with. Additionally responsible for managing the engineering team and interns, recruitment, etc. From January 2011 to November 2011 (11 months) Senior Engineer @ Started by evaluating and becoming an expert in various NoSQL solutions. Became the primary sys-admin, MongoDBA, the resident Git expert, the resident Mac expert, the analytics engineer, the IT department, nerf-dart-thrown-into-cups expert, and principal engineer on Mob Wars. From May 2010 to January 2011 (9 months) Founder @ A heroku-clone designed for Node.js applications built in under 48 hours. Took a job before I could lift this off the ground. Technology from this project was used in most of my work since. From April 2010 to May 2010 (2 months) S. Engineer @ FreeCause, Inc acquired by Rakuten USA! Became the sole system administrator and maintainer of a fairly large Ruby on Rails website (onecause.com, over 15k uniques / day). From September 2009 to April 2010 (8 months) Instructor @ I taught several courses for the Educational Studies Program and Spark. From December 2009 to January 2010 (2 months) Software Engineer @ Designed and implemented a real-time notification system (up to 27 million notifications per min!). Re-architected the internal analytics platform to be faster, as well as easier to use, modify, and maintain. From June 2009 to September 2009 (4 months) Co-Founder @ Architected technical and strategic aspects for a browser-based audio communication platform with positional audio, logging, and speech-to-action support. From December 2008 to February 2009 (3 months) Software Engineer @ As an intern, designed and implemented a speech recognition pipeline for use in storybook's "karaoke"-like, read-along system. Also worked in teams with students and grads from MIT, Carnegie Mellon, RPI, etc to develop many additional in-house technologies. Afterwards, hired full time as sole engineer. From May 2008 to December 2008 (8 months) Web Developer @ Single-handedly overhauled company’s marketing media - the website, brochures, conference booths, etc. During Unreal 2004 lunch battles, became a marksman with the Lightning Gun. From 2006 to 2007 (1 year) Research Intern @ Developed automated testing tools for massively-multi-core CPUs. Evaluated various software encryption protocols for in-house use. From June 2006 to August 2006 (3 months)

Lean UX/UI Design @ Stanford dSchool, Luxr.co From 2011 to 2011 MSCE, Computer Engineering @ University of Delaware From 2007 to 2008 Certificate in Character Animation @ AnimationMentor From 2007 to 2007 BCE, Computer Engineering @ University of Delaware From 2003 to 2007 Van Nguyen is skilled in: JavaScript, React.js, Redux, ES6, Hapi, User Interface, Git, Docker, Python, Agile Methodologies, MongoDB, AngularJS, Node.js, CSS, HTML 5