# Quan Nguyen

> Senior Software Engineer at Discord

Location: Greater Boston, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/quan

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Discord
Jan 2022 – Present | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• Distributed safety policy enforcement and anti-spam platforms
• Safety investigative tooling
• Analytics and ML data platform
• Performance, reliability, automation
• Rust, Python, Typescript, PostgreSQL, Google Cloud Platform

### Staff Software Engineer @ Drift
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• Data platform
• Java, Kubernetes, MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, AWS

### Senior Software Engineer @ Overjet
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• Backend development for dental practice management application.
• Data processing pipelines for xray images, patient data import and aggregation 
• Java, Python, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Google Cloud, Terraform

### Software Engineer @ Commure
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Greater Boston Area
• Led the App Development Lifecycle team and built the MVP for OAuth 2.0 app registration on the Commure Developer Platform (https://developer.commure.com)
• Improved capabilities of authorization and auditing subsystems
• Rearchitected session management system for improved stability and maintainability
• Mitigated server-side-request-forgery vulnerabilities by setting up an outbound web proxy service on production Kubernetes clusters
• Productionized multi-tenant architecture for hosting Commure Developer Platform, enabling data isolation and per-tenant customizable configuration on shared cloud infrastructure.
• Built out essential administrative APIs for managing Commure user roles and group membership.
• Built features and fixed bugs in Listrunner (https://www.listrunnerapp.com/) web and React Native applications.
• Mentored junior engineers learning about Rust programming and backend engineering concepts.
• Reviewed code and advised on design for features interacting with access control, authentication, and auditing services.
• Technologies: Rust, Javascript, React, Kubernetes

### Software Engineer - Chrome OS @ Google
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Mountain View, CA
Chrome OS UI and system architecture. Built features related to authentication and lock screen. Systems, multithreading, UI, C++.

### Software Engineer - Google Play Protect @ Google
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Mountain View, CA
Developed big data processing pipelines to support analysis of the Android malware ecosystem. Worked on internal tooling for malware analysis and identification. Big data, MapReduce, Java, JavaScript.

### CS106 Section Leader @ Stanford University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
Taught section for Stanford University introductory Computer Science courses. Graded student assignments and exams. Provided debugging help and feedback on student programming assignments.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Wealthfront Inc.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Redwood City, CA
Automated email notification process for customer check deposits. Implemented back-end support for account funding via Plaid API. Added Git-blame functionality to exception alerting system.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Quantcast
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco, CA
Developed a tool in Python and Java for automating smoke-tests of production MapReduce jobs. The tool compares a job's output with the pre-defined "correct" output, and also reports on how a broken build will impact other jobs in the pipeline.


## Education
### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Stanford University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/quanngocnguyen
- GitHub: https://github.com/qnnguyen17

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