# Van Michael Nguyen > Software Engineer Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/van I am a software engineer and web developer who studied Business and Economics at Babson College. In my own time I like to code in various languages and frameworks. I used to embrace Ruby on Rails and have an appreciation for my first MVC framework, but now node.js and the rest of the javascript family has grabbed my attention. More recently over the past 4 years I have focused on building scalable systems with Node.js on the server side and react on the client side at Opentable. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Vontive Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States Full stack engineer building fintech software. Maintain and build out a loan offer state machine that allows borrowers to apply for real estate investment loans as well as allowing brokers to price various loan offer scenarios. Backend is a monolithic Typescript API that wraps a postgresql database, and the frontend is built with Vue.js. Web Hosting is configured on AWS, and the deploy pipeline is managed with CircleCi. ### Software Engineer @ OpenTable Jan 2017 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area I worked on the User and Loyalty Team at Opentable. Much of my work involves building and maintaining applications in node.js (typescript) and react. I've worked on various projects from helping to expand our loyalty program, to improving the booking experience, to building integrations between our sister brands such as Kayak. From time to time, I will work on some legacy infrastructure in c#, and help clear some of the chores involving GDPR, and security. I consider myself a full stack engineer, although I prefer architecting systems at the server side api and database level. When it calls for it, I can enjoy crafting user facing interfaces with react. I am not stuck or focused purely on one technology as Opentable is powered by many microservices that are composed of various languages and frameworks. Being both a polyglot in programming and lean thinker in product, I find a great interest in plumbing the right data that needs to be analyzed, and ab testing features that are hopefully helping people enjoy the world through dining. This past summer I was also a summer mentor for our intern class, which included helping to teach and manage summer interns about to attend their senior years at UCLA and MIT. Prior to the User/Loyalty team I worked on the Booking Flow team, where the main goal was to iterate on diner booking flows in order to increase seated diners and abtest revenue. Other teams included: - GraphQL Backend Team: Built many connectors to microservices, added observability with grafana and kibana, as well as improved Apollo client implementation/performance. - Kubernetes Infra Team: Owned a short term solo project to build a generically compatible SDK client for all javascript/node/coffee/ts express/koa/hapi existing codebases using our vpc/security practices. This client enabled services to redeploy/migrate onto a upgraded kubernetes environment. Used techniques such as tokenization, helm credential management, health checks and exponential backoff. ### Software Engineer @ Luxe Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area Building software to help people fall in love with parking. node.js, mysql, microservices, angular ### Junior Software Engineer @ Bankrate Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Cambridge Full stack developer and software engineer. Build and maintain code bases using ruby, javascript, node.js, and python. Our engineering team strives to be a polyglot shop, and we utilize modern technologies and api's such as Twilio. Dev Ops skills involve work with capistrano deployment, check_mk alerts, strider continuous deployment, and hacking through linux virtual machines to make sure our applications have a happy home on the web. Our department, enforced mysql as our primary choice for databases. ### Web Developer @ Arco Web Development Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Cambridge, MA • Portfolio: www.arcowebdev.com (Domain Expired) Now: http://mighty-lake-9037.herokuapp.com • Program and maintain websites for college and commercial organizations using Ruby on Rails 3.2, HTML5, CSS, Javascript, Posgresql, and Git • Examples: http://aqueous-escarpment-1183.herokuapp.com ### Web Technologies Teacher Assistant @ Babson College TOIM Department Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | Babson Park, MA • Teacher Assistant for Professor Ganesan Shankar's Web Technologies Class at Babson College. • Help teach introductory HTML, CSS, and some JavaScript to Babson students during class. • Teach class when Professor Shankar is absent. • Work one on one with Babson students after class to help debug and resolve any issues with their web designs. ### Information Technology Officer @ Babson Honors Program Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Hollister Building, Babson College, Babson Park, MA • Built and maintained a dynamic website that records, tracks and compiles application requirements for Babson Honors Program applicants. • Framework used: Ruby on Rails, Database used: PostgreSQL, Styling used: Twitter Bootstrap, Version Control used: GitHub, Deployment used: Heroku ### Laptop Technician and Help Desk @ Babson College ITSD Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Babson Park, MA • Responding to software and hardware issues that occur at Babson College, including over the phone customer service and in person office calls. • Repair Lenovo think pads that have hardware damage or software issues. • Train newly hired employees. ### Intern @ Dreamit Ventures Incubator: Jobaphiles.com Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 | Philadelphia, PA • Utilize Scrum Agile development methodology to set goals and monitor the efficiency of product development. Partake in presentations and Rocket Pitches. • Networked with various CS developers, CEO’s of Startups, and known Venture Capitalists in the Web 2.0 industry. • Pursued Marketing campaign: Attracting college students and other users to the website. ## Education ### Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Economics and Information Technology Babson College Jan 2009 – Jan 2013 ### Economics Università Bocconi Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vanmichael --- Source: https://flows.cv/van JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/van/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22