Kevin X. Nguyen

Software Engineer @ Google

Greater Seattle Area

About

Building scalable backend services in cloud environments to deliver Ready-To-Code virtual machines to developers around the world. Experienced in distributed systems, backend development, and infrastructure automation. I focus on enhancing developer productivity at scale using technologies like Azure, Kubernetes, and the Durable Task Framework.

Experience

  • Software Engineer at Google
    Apr 2026 - Present · 3 mos

  • Software Engineer 2 at Microsoft
    Jul 2021 - Apr 2026 · 4 yrs 10 mos

    • Designed and developed production APIs for SP500 business customers, prioritizing usability, maintainability, long-term scalability and performance. • Implemented regional caching to eliminate API throttling due to dependency bottlenecks, resulting in a 30% reduction in average response time and an 80% improvement in 95th percentile response time. • Led the rapid mitigation and resolution of large-scale cloud incidents, minimizing downtime and ensuring business continuity. • Established comprehensive monitoring and alerting systems, ensuring 99.9% SLA reliability across cloud services. • Optimized integration testing infrastructure to eliminate timeouts, reducing false positives by 50% and significantly accelerating deployment cycles. • Developed complex features on Azure Kubernetes, leveraging orchestration and Durable Task patterns to ensure reliable & efficient resource management.

  • Software Engineer Intern at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
    Jun 2020 - Aug 2020 · 3 mos

    • Designed and shipped a feature on AWS RDS that allows users to configure the TLS version used when establishing a database connection. • Enabled greater flexibility and security compliance by giving customers control over TLS negotiation policies for their RDS instances.

  • Software Engineer Intern at Microsoft
    Jan 2020 - Apr 2020 · 4 mos

  • Co-Founder & President at Skylow
    Jan 2019 - Dec 2019 · 1 yr