Binh Nguyen

The name’s Binh (the “h” is silent). I’m a Web Developer and Software Engineer currently based in New York City. Born in Virginia and studied Economics and Media Studies at Virginia. I worked for a brief spell in my beloved Commonwealth before heading out to the Bay Area to learn the ol’ software/web development trade.

I was lucky to find a role at a plucky little fintech startup, working at all levels of the stack due to both curiosity and necessity—experience that proved to be immensely formative. Craving new challenges, I made my way to some larger companies, naturally gravitating further towards Frontend and UI-focused development.

Wanting to change things up, I reluctantly said goodbye to San Francisco to live a simpler, quieter life in Manhattan. Here I’ve had the good fortune of working with more great teams at successful SaaS companies in fintech and real estate, growing deep front-end expertise while staying hands-on across the full stack.

I don’t often think of my career as a straightforward, linear path but, if forced to slap some clean narrative on it so far I would say that the above pretty much sums it up. Developing user-friendly product features, leading experimentation, cultivating design systems, curating web presence — this is me*.

Outside of work I love to travel, cook, doodle, watch too much TV, see too many films, spend time with friends and family. Real original stuff.

I also like building websites in my spare time and although I’ve been making them for over 10 years, I have been recently inspired by so many developers and their personal sites and blogs that make up the IndieWeb so I’m trying to put more time and energy cultivating my own place. A Place to Call Home.