Kevin Nguyen

Building Cursor

Los Angeles, California, United States

About

I hope to make a real world impact in the community through means of coding. Whether it be in healthcare, data management, or any form of software development, my dream is to secure a position where I can help people simplify their lives and improve it in any way I can.

Experience

  • Engineering Manager, Client Infrastructure at Cursor
    Feb 2026 - Present · 5 mos

    Client Infrastructure is responsible for 3 areas: The underlying platform and foundational systems (Updater, Electron, VSCode, Extension Host), Developer Tools and Observability (Performance, Reliability), and Release Infrastructure (Code Signing, End to End Distribution) If any of these sound interesting to you, we're hiring!

  • Software Development Manager, AWS at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
    Sep 2025 - Jan 2026 · 5 mos

    - Responsible for the AWS Billing compute platform. We provide the infrastructure used to power the workloads necessary to bill AWS customers under a tight SLA - Currently focused on improving performance, reliability, and cost

  • Maintainer at ElectronJS
    Jan 2022 - Sep 2025 · 3 yrs 9 mos

    - Overseeing the entire governance and open source project as part of the administrative working group, ensuring the collective health of the maintainers as well as a means of escalated support - Established and actively holding regular monthly all-hands meetings for all maintainers - Coordinates annual summits alongside Microsoft and other key stakeholders as a means to evaluate priorities and set annual goals

  • Sr. Manager, Software Engineering at Slack
    Nov 2021 - Aug 2025 · 3 yrs 10 mos

    - Managed teams responsible for the desktop client and surrounding ecosystem, browser (Chromium) and web infrastructure, client performance, and application focused backend systems and infrastructure - Most recently responsible for a Slack wide effort to improve client performance across browser, desktop, mobile, and backend, reporting and collaborating with senior executives to improve key client experiences

  • Amazon (5 yrs 3 mos)
    • Software Engineering Manager, Prime Gaming
      Jun 2021 - Oct 2021 · 5 mos

      - Managed the team responsible for twitch prime subscriptions as well as ordering and eligibility - Worked with Sr Leadership as part of a greater reorg to build and lead a new Catalog team chartered to improve game and perk discoverability to gaming.amazon.com users

    • Software Engineering Manager, Amazon Studios
      Jun 2020 - Jun 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo

      - Grew a team of 3 engineers to 8 software engineers responsible for work order management and asset ingestion - Spearheaded the global launch of the Work Order Management system, coordinating with the Marketing, Amazon Originals Movies, and Media Archive teams to manage asset delivery across Europe, North America, and South America to our digital asset management and archival systems. - Facilitated the supply of content to various Amazon teams, enabling robust model training for AI initiatives using Amazon Studios content

    • Software Development Engineer, Amazon Studios
      Dec 2018 - Jun 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos

      - As the first engineer in the Post Production Technology group, worked with leadership to shape the roadmap as well as the team's technical stack - Using Python, ReactJS and AWS resources such as S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, and EC2, developed systems that improved the intake, management, and delivery of post-production, production, and final deliverable assets - Spearheaded the deployment of Aspera, an advanced file transfer technology, and introduced automation solutions that simplified content delivery and asset management for Amazon Studios stakeholders - Presented a well-received session at Amazon's internal frontend conference discussing the trade-offs between Amazon's standard REST API generation framework and AWS AppSync, Amazon's GraphQL solution