# Kyle Nguyen > Sr. Staff Software Engineer at Tesla Location: San Jose, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kylenguyen - 17+ years of strong experience in complete Software Development Life Cycle in various roles including Technical Lead, Project Lead and Architect. - Experience working in an agile environment using Scrum methodologies and Scaled Agile (SAFe). - Strong Technical Background with diverse experience with Healthcare, Cloud-based apps, Multi-Tenant Apps, Java/J2EE based Enterprise Systems, Micro Services and Multi-Tier Web applications. - Experience with building the Cloud healthcare platform services - In depth knowledge of solution architectures, identity management system, frameworks, business components, middleware and security controls to help drive the non-functional requirements. - Highly self-motivated professional with ability to do self-learning of new processes, technologies, articulate business/technical problems, and work in a mixed team environment. ## Work Experience ### Sr. Staff Software Engineer @ Tesla Jan 2023 – Present | United States ### Staff Software Engineer @ Tesla Jan 2018 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Manager/Architect Development Engineering | R&D - Philips HealthSuite Digital Platform @ Philips Healthcare Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 | Foster City, California - Taking on the Architecture role to build the next generation of cloud based Philips Health Suite Digital Platform to enable the development of healthcare and health-related applications. - Design platform component services: Identity & Access management, Telemetry Observation Storage, logging, auditing, wellness data collector, IHE Profiles. - Research and evaluate new technologies. - Design and prototype software. - Provide software development guidelines (Java, Spring, REST, Web Services, Sonar, Fortify) and software development best practice. - Provide design guidelines to build platform Micro-Services which are deployed in the Cloud Foundry. - Research and perform proof of concept on the new technologies. - Perform code review, review low level designs and REST APIs specification provided by Development teams. - Work closely with developers to ensure implementation is aligned with high level design. - Analyzed system performance metrics and provided approach to improve performance - Work closely with Architects across programs to help drive software solutions. - Work closely with Product Managers to capture requirements and functionalities. ### Software Engineer Technical Lead @ Optum Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 | San Jose - Work on health information exchange profiles (IHE XDS, XCPD, XCA, PDQ, PIX) - Work on health information exchange cloud-based applications. - Work on web services orchestration for health information exchange. ### Project Lead Development @ Northrop Grumman Corporation Jan 2004 – Jan 2011 - Developed Defense Biometric Identification System application. Tasks include software components integration, software updates, new version and patch release, ensure software quality, improve user interface, implement new features requirements. - Designed and developed an enterprise .Net Web service to manage military personnel records across regions. - Designed and developed military access management application. - Current position involves working together with different group of software developers, DBA, system engineers and technical support personnel. ### Web Service Developer @ Mirra Inc Jan 2004 – Jan 2004 - Developed Web services using XML-RPC to allow remote access, files/folders sharing and share management among owners and users of company’s Personal Backup Server product. - Developed Web services interface using JSP, Servlet and Java beans. - Developed Services Administrative page for internal usage ### Graduate Student Researcher @ Stanford Research Institute (SRI International) Jan 2003 – Jan 2004 - Research on Security and Privacy related issues of Semantic Web Services. - Create ontology to describe future Security and Privacy of Semantic Web Services. - Implemented Security Web Services for Encryption, Decryption and Signature of XML, SOAP messages and text using Java, Visual Studio.Net C# and Oracle. ### Software Engineer @ Identix Incorporated Jan 2000 – Jan 2002 - Developed multithreaded client/server Windows based scanner’s applications to capture fingerprint and handprint through 1394 Firewall. - Developed remote applications to transfer and receive images/bitmaps from a live finger/hand scanner. Works included bitmaps palette indexes extraction and sending images/bitmaps across 1394 channel. - Software development experiences using scanner’s firmware and 1394 Firewall driver. - Developed SDK software based on customer’s requirement and responsible for SDK update, documentation, and release. - Windows GUI development work included finger/hand image capturing window. - Worked closely with manufacture to provide technical support and new features update. ### Software engineer @ Larson Automation Jan 1998 – Jan 2000 - Developed custom applications to perform automated testing of electronic parts based on customer requirements using LabWindows/CVI and Visual C++. - Developed a PXI systems test for stand-alone testing and engineering evaluation as well as a panel test station to test four AccessLink II two-way pager transceiver board boards in a pneumatic fixture. - Developed a controller system to test IBM disk drive components in a stress evaluation environment under National Instruments CVI test development environment using NI-DAQ and four-port serial control. - Provided consultation and helped developing client/server controller test system to perform stress testing on hard drivers, Ethernet cards, wireless cards. Companies consulted included Maxim, Wireless Access, IBM, and Plato Labs. - Created efficient GUI application to provide a simple test environment. - Responsible for application new features support and troubleshooting. ## Education ### M.S in Computer Science San José State University ### B.S in Computer Science San José State University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kyle-nguyen-5aa33325 --- Source: https://flows.cv/kylenguyen JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kylenguyen/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12