Software Engineer · San Francisco, CA

Hi, I'm Jim.
I build things for the web, then find new ways to over-engineer them.

Currently: rebuilding this site with Next.js + Tailwind, and scaling chicken recipes for science.

01 / Work

Projects

Amazon Clone

A full-stack storefront clone with real authentication and checkout — Firebase handles login, realtime order history, and Stripe processes payments end to end.

React
Firebase
Stripe
Material-UI

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Burger Builder

A responsive single-page app for stacking a custom burger order — Redux drives the running total, and auth state survives a refresh.

React
Redux
Firebase

View live

Archived

Restaurant Reviews

A full-stack review platform with a Spring Boot API backing a React frontend, deployed on AWS. The original S3-hosted demo has since been decommissioned.

React
Spring Boot
MySQL
AWS

Profiles REST API

A backend-only REST API for user profile creation and management, with token auth and full CRUD via Django Viewsets.

Python
Django REST Framework

02 / Just for fun

Playground

Small standalone tools I build instead of mobile apps — quick ideas, live for anyone to use.

Chicken, Scaled.

Scale a braised chicken sauce and slurry to whatever weight of chicken you're holding.

Open

SF Apartment Finder

Live feed from a Craigslist scraper running on a schedule, filtered to exactly what I'm looking for.

Open

03 / Toolbox

Skills

Languages

Python
Scala
Java
SQL
JavaScript/TypeScript
Bash

Data & Streaming

Apache Spark
Kafka
Flink
Kinesis
Iceberg
Delta Lake

Cloud & Platforms

AWS
Databricks
Snowflake
S3
Glue
Lambda
EMR
MSK

Infrastructure

Kubernetes
Docker
Terraform
CI/CD
IAM

Observability

Datadog
Grafana
Splunk
CloudWatch

Web (personal projects)

React
Next.js
Redux
Django REST Framework
Firebase

04 / Me

About

I'm a software engineer based in San Francisco, originally from Bellevue, WA, building web apps end to end — from the database up through whatever framework is having a moment. Outside of the editor I'm usually hiking, shooting hoops, planning the next trip, or getting outvoted by my cat Benji on what to watch. 😺

05 / Background

Resume

Education

Western Washington University

B.S. Computer Science · August 2018

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Selected work

Amazon Clone
Full-stack storefront with Firebase auth, realtime order history, and Stripe checkout.
Burger Builder
Redux-driven SPA for building custom orders, with persistent state across refreshes.
This site
Personal portfolio and app playground, built with Next.js, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS.

06 / Say hi

Contact

vjimnguyen@gmail.com

Hi, I'm Jim.I build things for the web, then find new ways to over-engineer them.