Khoa Nguyen
🎓 BS in Computer Science, MGA.edu - 4.0 GPA
🎓 BS in Bioinformatics, ASU.edu - 3.8 GPA
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Professional Summary
Senior Full-Stack Developer with 10+ years of experience modernizing legacy platforms, building scalable apps, and leading cross-functional projects.
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Adept at PHP, Laravel, JavaScript, and MySQL with proven success in reducing operational inefficiencies, driving SEO and performance improvements, and building tools that streamline workflows. Experienced across e-commerce and healthcare domains, collaborating with design, product, and engineering teams, and mentoring developers to deliver measurable results.
Skills
Professional Experience
Senior Full-Stack Developer @ Scrapbook.com
Aug 2024 - Present
- Delivered 50+ tickets across new features, bug fixes, and UI/UX refinements, ensuring consistent product improvements.
- Designed and implemented a PHP model system powering internal livestreaming tools, reducing setup time from 8–10 hours to minutes.
- Built and optimized livestream and event management modules, including video publishing, chat controls, and admin dashboards.
- Refactored procedural code into reusable object-oriented structures for layout components.
- Implemented SEO and performance improvements (noindex flags, canonical tags, robots.txt directives, sitemap submissions, caching, minification, and structured data) that cut crawler traffic by 70%.
- Created local Docker dev environments using WSL to resolve syncing and Git issues.
- Resolved 28+ production bugs, reducing customer-reported issues and improving platform stability.
- Improved system reliability by eliminating recurring PHP warnings, streamlining debugging for the team.
- Implemented sitewide front-end enhancements (navigation states, countdown timers, responsive menus) that improved user engagement.
- Mentored designers on front-end coding best practices and helped PMs groom technical tickets.
- Collaborated on internal tools using PHP, MySQL, jQuery, and vanilla JS.
Lead Software Engineer @ Cerebrum (Contracted to Quest Diagnostics)
Jul 2021 - Jul 2024
- Led modernization of Quest Diagnostics' LIMS, migrating to Laravel 9 and Next.js.
- Improved testing infrastructure to 80%+ coverage with Pest and PHPUnit.
- Refactored SQL into Eloquent ORM and implemented Laravel patterns like Factories and Policies.
- Enforced PSR-12 compliance using Larastan and Pint.
- Migrated GitLab infrastructure from on-prem to cloud.
- Reviewed code, mentored developers, and maintained team-wide guidelines.
Software Engineer @ GEARFIRE
Aug 2016 - Jul 2021
- Refactored monolithic eCommerce platform into Laravel 5, boosting maintainability.
- Migrated infrastructure to AWS using EC2 + Load Balancers to improve uptime.
- Developed distributor-integrated APIs for product replenishment with queued workers.
- Built order tracking dashboards, reducing daily failures to nearly zero.
- Automated SSL and cross-domain setup for client storefronts.
Independent Software Consultant @ K-Square
Pre-2016
- Delivered contract solutions across insurance, education, HR/payroll, and pharma sectors.
- Worked across stacks including PHP, JS, .NET, SQL, and legacy systems like Pascal.
Academic Experience
BS in Computer Science, Middle Georgia State University – 4.0 GPA
Concentration in Software Development
- Graduated with Honors; completed 106% of required credits
- Senior Capstone, Internship, and 15+ upper-level IT courses including Python, Java, C++, InfoSec, and Web Dev
BS in Bioinformatics, Arizona State University – 3.8 GPA
- Completed advanced coursework in Genetics, Evolution, Ecology, and Computational Biology
- Early focus in life sciences before pivoting to tech; cross-disciplinary foundation