Long Nguyen longnguyen@mit.

edu
linkedin.com/in/longnguyen97
http://long-nguyen.com github.com/longnguyen1997
(408) 768 - 4697

Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science & Engineering 2015 - 2019
Master of Engineering, Computer Science 2019 - 2020 (expected)
∗ Fall 2019
> Comp. Photography (Grad.)∗ > Operating Systems (Grad.) > Distributed Systems (Grad.) > Algorithm Analysis
> Computer Graphics∗ > Artificial Intelligence > Database Systems (Grad.) > Software Construction
> Comp./Network Security (Grad.) > Digital Communication Systems > Computer Systems > Computer Architecture

Experience
Platform9 Systems – Software Engineering Intern Sunnyvale, CA
Summer 2019
> Redesigned Platform9 Managed Kubernetes’s X509 certificate stack from the ground up.
> Scaled certificate request signing to hundreds of host VMs deployed on hybrid clouds.
> Saw a 10x+ increase in Kubernetes cluster convergence time in production.
> Saved hundreds of man-hours in troubleshooting and debugging certificate/cluster convergence.
Summer 2018
> Architected/implemented a REST API and CLI service for managing customer software upgrades.
> Designed a distributed scheduler for handling planned customer upgrades.
> Used Docker and Kubernetes to deploy the above services with Amazon ECR.
> Configured a full build pipeline through TeamCity.
> Reduced hours of load for efficiency on director-level positions.
MIT CS & AI Laboratory (CSAIL) – Undergraduate Researcher Fall 2018 / Cambridge, MA
> Created Scala applications using Edge-C, a performant framework for building distributed systems.
> Incorporated the Raft consensus algorithm into Edge-C’s system logic.
> Conducted benchmarks and showed dramatic performance increases compared to traditional approaches.

Leadership
MIT EECS – Teaching Assistant, 6.UAT Spring 2018 - Present / Cambridge, MA
> Training students in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science fundamental, effective oral communica-
tion skills in the context of technical content, pitches, and group proposals.
MIT Schools of Science & Engineering – Course Assistant Cambridge, MA
> 6.02 (Digital Communications): Fall 2019, grading students’ work as part of the course staff.
> 7.013 (Molecular Biology): Fall 2018, graded students’ work and sent feedback accordingly.
> 6.00 (Intro to Computer Science): Fall 2017, held office hours every week to help beginning CS students.

Projects
> Popular classical artists: Showcase of the 4 most famous classical composers. React.js.
> To-do list: Seamless, animated to-do list with local storage caching. React.js.
> Personal website: Personal portfolio for my photography. HTML, CSS, JS.

Skills
> Languages: Python, Javascript (React, Node.js), Java, Bash, C, Scala, HTML, CSS, LATEX
> Tools: Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes