# Christen Nguyen > Senior Software Engineer at Rivian Location: San Jose, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/christen Building cool things at Rivian on the order squad! Rivian is an electric adventure vehicle company whose mission is to keep the world adventurous forever. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Rivian Jan 2022 – Present ### Software Engineer II @ Rivian Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Palo Alto, California, United States ### Software Engineer @ conDati, Inc. Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Palo Alto, CA Architected patented internal tool using JavaScript, React, and Python to enable data scientists to generate rich web-based dashboards from Jupyter notebooks on demand - thousands of dashboards were created via the UI over the lifetime of the tool and ~800 dashboards/day via the direct API. Facilitate and drive development of enhancements to core product offerings in order to fulfill customer’s most wished for features and provide data on the proven benefits of the product. Built several smaller tools exposing features such as clearing dashboard cache, deleting dashboards, uploading thumbnails to dashboards, and deleting thumbnails to give more agency to the data scientists and streamline data science team’s workflows. Refactored legacy vanilla JS dashboard creation tool to utilize React for increased parity between dashboard staging and production views and to pave the way for easy maintainability and extensibility of the tool. ### Web Assistant @ Santa Clara University Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Santa Clara, CA Worked with over 9 departments within the College of Arts and Sciences with each administrator on developing new content for department website using T4 content manager and HTML. Created graphics and fliers for upcoming department events. ### Apple Intern - Software Quality Assurance @ FileMaker Inc., an Apple subsidiary Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Santa Clara, CA Analyzed and implemented solutions for failed test cases for FileMaker Pro Advanced 15 and FileMaker Pro Advanced 16 using Apple's in-house tools and framework based on Python by fixing the framework library, editing test scripts, or reporting a bug. Updated several automation framework libraries and over three hundred test case scripts to reflect changes in the software's UI and functionality to resolve all false failures in current and future builds. Ran the automation suite and performance testing for new builds on a variety of operating systems and OS versions and put together a performance report for the use of project managers and developers. ### Summer Engineering Intern @ Aeris Communications Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Santa Clara, CA Utilized Aeris' test automation framework and Selenium to write and execute test cases and Java test scripts for internal web application. Collaborated with engineering project leaders to restructure and migrate documentation to Atlassian Confluence. Logged bugs using Atlassian JIRA and Confluence. ### Tutor @ Silicon Valley Education Foundation (SVEF) Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Cabrillo Middle School, Santa Clara, CA Helped up to five seventh graders in the STEM program at Cabrillo Middle School with Algebra 1 onsite and off-campus. Assisted students in improving their grades of D’s to B’s and C’s to A’s within the span of several weeks. ### Elevate Teaching Assistant @ Silicon Valley Education Foundation (SVEF) Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | San Jose, CA Helped sixty at-risk James Lick High School students (my alma mater!!!) in biology and chemistry and monitored their improvement using Edmodo and Excel. Participated in panels that encouraged higher education in students who were of a low socioeconomic background. ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering Santa Clara University Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/christennguyen --- Source: https://flows.cv/christen JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/christen/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22