Nathan Nguyen

I am a Software Engineer @ Microsoft. My interest lies in Distributed Systems, Databases, and the Data Structures & Algorithms beneath them. A competitive programmer at heart, I like carrying that algorithmic intuition into the data structures that make databases fast. I write about what I learn.

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@ Center for Materials Data Science, I was a Research Engineer advised by Yinghui Wu and Xiaotian Han, where I built an information retrieval engine for scientific agents (ISWC 2025).

@ Microsoft, I interned on the Microsoft Security team, building the data storage layer that powers agentic incident understanding.

@ Amazon, I interned on the Alexa Voice Shopping team, building data pipelines that power reasoning agents for product recommendation.