# Hien Vien

> Software Engineer at Alchemy

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/hienvien

Extremely versatile engineer with experience building distributed systems and whole stack for web and desktop applications. I am always hungry for knowledge on the latest and greatest tech.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Alchemy
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Staff Software Engineer @ Blend
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California

### CTO @ Foxtrot Systems
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Principal Engineer @ Foxtrot Systems
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, CA

### Lead Developer @ Foxtrot Systems
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco, CA
First engineer at Foxtrot building the digital platform managing logistics in real time.

### Software Engineer @ Jetlore
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Sunnyvale, CA
Generalist working on various parts of the system including creating the data processing pipeline for generating real-time performance analytic for promotional email, leading a team for the development effort for rebuilding the company's dashboard, and rebuilding the product image generation pipeline to create the image blocks embedded in online retailer's email.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Oxygen Cloud
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Redwood City, CA
Lead developer responsible for building odrive, the easiest way to access and sync your online data from any cloud storage provider. Also served as a mentor for various members of the team.

### Software Engineer @ Oxygen Cloud
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Redwood City, CA
Developed core technologies used in odrive including the sync engine, delta engine, sync gateway, OSX Finder injector, and Windows shell extension.

### Software Engineer @ TapSense
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
• Designed, built, and maintained distributed systems to generate real-time reports, serve ads, and track users.
• Iteratively built the web dashboard containing tools to view reports and to streamline the process of creating new campaigns and managing advertisers and publishers.

### Software QA Intern @ Sybase, an SAP Company
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Dublin, CA
• Performed black box testing for Adaptive Server Enterprise.
• Developed and repaired functionality and performance test cases.
• Communicated with other developers and QAs to investigate and fix bugs.
• Developed scripts to generate graphs for historical regression data.


## Education
### BS in Computer Science and Engineering
University of California, Davis


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/hien-vien

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Last updated: 2026-04-05