System Architecture
Distributed Systems • Go • High Performance Computing • Scalability
Thanh Ngo(“Ngo” rhymes with go)
I buildinteractive tools
Software engineer at Google. I make small, sharp tools and write about the systems behind them.
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AboutWhat I
What I
care about
Good software is opinionated. These are the opinions I keep reaching for.
Web Product Engineering
React • Angular • RxJS • Redux • TypeScript • Accessibility • UX/UI Design
Agentic AI
Agentic Programming • Prompt Engineering • LLM Tooling • Evals • RAG • Skill Design
Technical Leadership
Mentoring • Code Quality • Technical Strategy • Team Growth • Code Review
ExperienceThe story
The story
so far
University to Google — the work that shaped how I build.
Google2021 - Present
Frontend Engineer
I've spent the last few years building TaskFlow, a tool that helps Googlers manage their work. It's been a journey of learning Angular, RxJS, and how to build for scale. Lately, I've been exploring how AI can make our workflows smarter, helping improve quality and ground truth collection.
Google2019 - 2021
Backend Engineer
My first role at Google was a deep dive into backend engineering. I built a C++ framework for real-time traffic experiments and helped launch a new quality stack for the serving index. It was a crash course in high-performance systems and data-driven decision making.
The College Board / Contractor2018 - 2019
Fullstack Engineer
Starting my career as a contractor gave me the chance to wear many hats. I built accessible UX with React, migrated massive datasets to DynamoDB, and modernized our architecture with serverless apps. It was a period of rapid learning and full-stack development.
Rutgers University2014 - 2018
B.Sc: Computer Science
Graduating Magna Cum Laude (GPA 3.8/4.0) from Rutgers was the culmination of my academic journey. It laid the foundation for my career, teaching me the principles of computer science that I still use every day.
Writing
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Notes on engineering — most posts ship with a demo you can poke at.
Texting my Mac Studio
Did you know that you can text my Mac Studio when visiting my site?
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Tool Islets
Working with Google's internal tools taught me the joy of small, focused applications. I am now recreating that world.
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Hello World! Welcome to my new blog.
Hey! I'm Thanh, and I finally caved and made a blog. You know how it goes—you tell yourself you'll start one 'someday,' and then three years pass. Well, someday is today.
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