About

Loc Nguyen is an experienced Engineering Manager currently working at Cruise, where he manages technical teams and oversees the creation of multiple products, including internal and consumer-facing ones. With over 14 years of relevant experience, Loc is a skilled leader who excels in upward/sideways collaboration, negotiation, and ruthless prioritization. He is also empathetic towards his team members, providing them with guidance and support in performance, culture, and career management. Loc is a full-stack engineer with expertise in React, Redux, JavaScript, TypeScript, Cypress, Node.js, Postgres, GCP, and AWS. He has worked on complex programs and managed full-stack product engineering teams, including frontend/UI and backend. Loc has also led the development of multiple products, including AV simulation creation and management, consumer rideshare onboarding flow, and multi-org, full-stack products to search, manage and execute large collections of simulations. In his previous role at Cruise, Loc interviewed around 200 engineers and leaders, resulting in dozens of hires, and was part of the Bar Raiser program. He has contributed to eight products, collaborating with a dozen product/design, quality, and remote resources. He led the development of the frontend AV simulation editor, reducing regression testing development cycles by 400%. Loc also led the development of the consumer rideshare onboarding flow, user management, security auditing, and backend re-architecture that scaled from 20 to 1k users. Loc holds a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics from the University of California, Davis. He is a senior software engineer with expertise in web and Android development, AWS, TypeScript, Redux, Postgres, GCP, NodeJS, Kubernetes, microservices, search, and UI. Loc is now looking to hire Android, web, and remote engineers for Cruise and is open to new opportunities.