Vuong Nguyen

Technical architect specialised in big data platform and cloud technologies with a wide range of experience in different architecture domains: infrastructure, big data, continuous delivery, networking and software.

Broad and deep knowledge of current trends in technology, how to use them to deliver business value alongside the stakeholder management skills to bring people on the journey.

Core strength in Data Engineering with current, deep technical knowledge – including hands-on – of big data technologies and cloud data warehouse such as Databricks, Spark and BigQuery.

LinkedIn / GitHub

🔥 Key works

📚 Thought leadership and blogs:

• Data Sharing and Beyond with Delta Sharing
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to data privilege model and access control in Unity Catalog
• An Automated Guide to Distributed and Decentralized Management of Unity Catalog
• Designing a Java Connector for Delta Sharing Recipient
• Databricks Terraform Provider Is Now Generally Available
• Arcuate – Machine Learning Model Exchange With Delta Sharing and MLflow
• Catalog and Discover Your Databricks Notebooks Faster
• Tech trends 2021: Unprecedented challenges and opportunities
• How can the public sector use AI effectively? Part 1
• How can the public sector use AI effectively? Part 2
• Operational resilience in Financial Services: Our approach
• The best way for companies to save money using public, private, and hybrid cloud

🖥️ Open-source contributions:

• Databricks Terraform Provider
• Delta Sharing Java connector
• ML model sharing for Delta Sharing
• Databricks Unity Catalog setup

🚀 Experiences

Senior Solutions Architect @ Databricks (Apr 2021 - Present)

Own the technical data strategy of several key customers and act as the trusted advisor to technical executives that guide strategic data infrastructure decisions, focusing on the adoption of Databricks Lakehouse platform.

• Manage the technical account team to drive the most critical use cases forward, handle escalations and mentor team members. This results in 4x growth in the territory consumption in the last year to c. $600k/quarter.
• Provide technical leadership to guide strategic customers to successful implementations on big data projects, ranging from architectural design, data engineering to ML model deployment.
• Architect production-level workloads, including end-to-end pipeline load performance testing and optimization.
• Data management and cloud platforms SME for internal communities and key strategic customers, focusing on automation (Terraform), data governance (Unity Catalog) and data sharing (Delta Sharing) capabilities.

Managing Consultant @ Credera UK (Oct 2019 - Apr 2021)

Worked on a number of Cloud-Native and Big Data platform projects, focusing on architectures while remaining close to hands-on development.

• Worked alongside the CDO and leadership team to develop a new, cloud-first vision and strategy for the technology underpinning data and analytics, including a path for legacy and enablement of future citizen services.
• Key architect on the data transformation programme of a large UK government department, defining the architecture for future state data and analytics products by adopting the industry-standard architectural style data mesh.
• Hands-on delivery of key reference implementations on AWS using cloud-native big data services such as EMR (Presto, Spark), S3, Redshift and Kafka.
• Technical lead for Google Cloud partnership. Thought leadership contributions across a range of topics including hybrid cloud, cloud cost optimisation, AI and DataOps.

Manager @ Deloitte UK (Sep 2017 - Sep 2019)

• Solutions architect for a managed automation platform on AWS.
• Automation lead on a managed services project for a large insurer handling c. 4,000 requests per week.
• Solutions architect on an intelligent automation pilot at a retail bank.
• Engagement manager and technical lead on an automation project at a Tier 1 investment bank. The team identified and built robots linked to £3m identified benefits.
• Design and facilitate multi-day automation training courses, personally having trained over 120+ people internally and externally.

Consultant - Assisstant Manager @ Deloitte UK (Sep 2014 - Sep 2017)

• Lead developer on a large-scale RPA project for a UK retail bank with around 100 robots delivering c. 25% productivity uplift.
• Design and development of load-balancing processes and web-based monitoring tools to support automation software.
• BI analyst providing data and analytics support for capacity planning and forecasting within the remediation programme.

🛠 Technical Certifications

• AWS: Big Data Specialty
• Azure: Azure Data Engineer Associate
• Databricks: Professional Data Engineer, Machine Learning Associate
• Google Cloud: Professional Data Engineer, Professional Solution Architect

📝 Education

BSc in Maths & Computer Science @ University of Southampton (2011 - 2014)

• First Class Honours