# Khanh Nguyen

> Software Engineer @Liaison | MS CS @SFSU

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/khanh

Passionate in bridging tech and design to enhance user experience.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Liaison International
Jan 2023 – Present

### Graduate Research Assistant @ San Francisco State University
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Developed 3D and virtual reality applications to provide a safe and immersive training experience for the Structural Engineers Association of Northern California’s Safety Assessment Program
• Technologies/Tools Used: Unity, C#

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ San Francisco State University
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
Teaching Assistant for Data Visualization: Concepts, Tools, Techniques, and Paradigms (CSC 805)

### UX Engineer Intern @ Google
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Enhanced usability for Speech-to-Text transcription service by providing user-configurable language support, custom terms, number of speakers, and speech models, improving overall transcription accuracy for long-form interviews in research studies
• Participated in holistic process from designing and building lo-fi and hi-fi prototypes to releasing new features in production
• Collaborated with designers and UX researchers to conduct usability studies and gather informative insights for design reiteration
• Established API contract with software engineers to simplify and fulfill backend technical requirements
• Technologies/Tools Used: React.js, TypeScript, Figma (for designing prototypes)

### Software Engineer @ Upwork
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Santa Clara, California
• Led development of interactive kanban board reflecting recruiting pipeline to streamline staffing process for recruiters and significantly reduce time to hire for clients
• Built agency experience and APIs to showcase agency profile and highlight relevant projects resulting in increase of agency hiring
• Implemented job template system which sped up the job posting process to attract highly-skilled freelancers
• Rebuilt and owned permission service for enterprise and agency users to unify access management logic and improve performance
• Technologies Used: Vue.js, Nuxt.js, Symfony (PHP), Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, AWS, Jenkins, Grafana

### Software Engineer Intern @ Upwork
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Mountain View, California
• Built notification system to enhance workflow productivity between freelancers and clients
• Developed an agency outreach system for client support team to bring in new agencies to the platform
• Implemented personalized client homepage to surface top candidates matching clients’ hiring preferences
• Technologies Used: Angular.js, Symfony (PHP), Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL

### Software Engineer Intern @ TargetX
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Built internal admin dashboard for support team to manage client information
• Technologies Used: Rails, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, PostgreSQL

### Teaching Assistant @ San Francisco State University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Teaching Assistant for Programming Methodology (CSC 340, in C++) and Software Development (CSC 413, in Java)

• Led TA sessions to help students with data structures and algorithms in Java and C++
• Facilitated class discussions and coding activities
• Wrote test cases to build projects using Travis CI

### Web Developer Intern @ SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Developed data visualization dashboard for museum collections
• Technologies Used: D3.js, JavaScript, PHP, HTML, CSS

### Apprenticeship Assistant @ Foothill College
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
• Organized and refined student apprenticeship information systems to provide accurate and structured data analysis


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
San Francisco State University
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
San Francisco State University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018

### Associate of Science (A.S.) in Computer Science
Foothill College
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016


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

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Source: https://flows.cv/khanh
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/khanh/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-22