# Kevin Nguyen

> Principal Engineer at GoGuardian

Location: Los Gatos, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kevinnguyen4

## Work Experience
### Principal Engineer @ GoGuardian
Jan 2015 – Present

### Software Developer Engineer II @ Amazon
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | Seattle
•	Led project to migrate from using Oracle to NoSQL for Amazon Retail use cases in North America improving availability and performance of storage by 40%.
•	Won an organization level hackathon by implementing a fast log searching service using Hadoop, EMR, and Ruby on Rails.
•	Developed and launched a storage eventing solution using SQS to reduce Checkout latency by 50% for large purchases in North America.
•	Mentored a summer intern and was able to give the intern a return internship offer.
•	Operated six business critical services with 100% availability during peak holiday season.
•	Created and used a scaling estimation script used to determine how much hardware was needed for the holiday season.
•	Worked on deprecating legacy C++ calculator service by migrating old code paths. Worked with different calculation teams in order to figure out how to migrate certain calculations.
•	Helped develop, test, and launch new packing slip data format in Europe.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Qualcomm
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Santa Clara
•	Developed an Android application and Ruby on Rails website to gather information on test mobile devices.

### Research Assistant @ UCLA Theory Lab
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Los Angeles
• Worked with the Low Power Energy Aware Processing (LEAP) system to analyze energy
consumption of different types of programs. Goal was to optimize the Linux Scheduler for energy
efficiency.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Qualcomm
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Santa Clara
• Created scripts to load, install, and run performance tests on Chrome netbooks.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
UCLA


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kevin-nguyen-792ba63a

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Last updated: 2026-04-12