Huy (Jacob) Nguyen

Senior Software Engineer
📍Tokyo / Toronto 📞+1 (647) 213-1517 ✉️ [email protected] 🔗 github.com/harukine

Professional Summary

Senior Software Engineer with 8 years of experience specializing in production-grade AI (RAG) and cloud-native architectures. Expert in building high-availability .NET 8 platforms on Azure and Kubernetes with a focus on security, cost-optimization, and automated CI/CD pipelines.

Technical Skills

AI & Data
Azure OpenAI AI Search AI Foundry Vector Indexing Prompt Engineering
Cloud & Platform
Azure AKS AWS GCP Docker Kubernetes Terraform Bicep
Languages & Frameworks
C# .NET 8 TypeScript Python Java React Node.js Spring Boot
Security & Auth
Auth0 OAuth2 OIDC Managed Identity Key Vault RBAC
Infrastructure & DevOps
GitHub Actions Azure DevOps Helm NGINX Ingress Blue/Green

Employment History

Eitoss Current Senior Software Engineer
July 2023 – Present
  • Designed and shipped production .NET 8 APIs for RAG using Azure OpenAI and AI Search, featuring optimized response streaming and prompt templates.
  • Built automated ingestion and indexing pipelines (Storage → Analyze → Index) with incremental re-indexing and data validation.
  • Hardened Azure cloud security by implementing Managed Identity for OpenAI, Storage, and Search services, eliminating credential leakage and secret rotation overhead.
  • Implemented Auth0 (OIDC/OAuth2) for SPA and API with RBAC via custom claims and roles to secure enterprise data across distributed services.
  • Orchestrated AKS deployments via Helm; managed NGINX Ingress, HPA (autoscaling), and blue-green rollouts to ensure high availability.
Foresight Insurance Analytics Software Engineer
Nov 2022 – June 2023
  • Delivered production Node.js (Express) APIs and Vue SPAs with clear contracts and robust integration testing.
  • Integrated OpenPilot components, resolving critical compatibility issues and hardening error-handling logic for production stability.
  • Managed containerized workloads on AKS and DigitalOcean, ensuring reliable performance and scalable resource allocation.
  • Validated and deployed releases to NVIDIA Jetson TX2 edge devices; authored technical deployment and hardware validation runbooks.
  • Ported critical algorithmic modules to C# .NET Core to leverage native performance, cutting compute time by 60%.
KetteQ Software Developer
Feb 2022 – Sept 2022
  • Architected and deployed new RESTful APIs with Spring Boot, Hibernate & Flyway.
  • Designed normalized schemas in PostgreSQL and ClickHouse, optimizing indexes to significantly improve query performance for data-heavy dashboards.
  • Built event-driven AWS components (Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB) featuring idempotency, retries, and Dead Letter Queues (DLQs).
  • Optimized Angular dashboards with virtual scrolling and server-side pagination for high-volume data visualization and responsiveness.
Uptake Software Developer
July 2021 – Jan 2022
  • Architected and deployed new ASP.NET web APIs and updated existing cloud-integrated services.
  • Optimized T-SQL stored procedures and reporting queries in SQL Server, cutting nightly ETL duration by 45%.
  • Delivered new Angular components using AG-Grid & DevExtreme, enhancing data visualization for 100+ users.
HearMeCheer Software Developer
Nov 2020 – June 2021
  • Optimized the Developer Experience (DevEx) by architecting OpenAPI/Swagger specifications for Express.js audio APIs, driving a 30% improvement in engineering onboarding efficiency.
  • Enhanced Go-based audio processing server, scaling to handle 500k concurrent fan streams during live sports events.
Yupp Technology Software Developer
Sept 2019 – Aug 2020
  • Architected a scalable NestJS microservice architecture utilizing PostgreSQL for persistent storage and RabbitMQ for resilient, webhook-driven data ingestion.
  • Orchestrated a production-grade 8-node Kubernetes cluster, implementing end-to-end TLS encryption and hardening service-to-service communication.

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario