Anika Nguyen

Summary

Anika Nguyen is a senior backend engineer (8 yrs) based in Remote (South Africa). Ships TypeScript services on Postgres with clear ownership of payments ledger work.

Experience

• Junior Software Engineerat Acme2019–now

  • Shipped a engineering initiative that improved retention by 11%.
  • Built a data pipeline adopted by 4 teammates.
  • Mentored 2 engineers; ran the interview loop.
• Full Stack Engineerat Pied Piper2016–2019

  • Shipped a engineering initiative that improved latency by 14%.
  • Built a design system adopted by 5 teammates.
  • Mentored 3 engineers; ran the interview loop.
• Backend Engineerat Vodacom2013–2016

  • Shipped a engineering initiative that improved NPS by 17%.
  • Built a tooling framework adopted by 6 teammates.
  • Mentored 4 engineers; ran the interview loop.

Education

• BA · Engineering

  University of Pretoria · 2009–2013

Communication log

Recent comms

• outboundemail8/6/2026, 2:02:59 AM
  Screening call invitation

  Touching base on the Prompt Engineer · mid · axdemo #024 search. Happy to share more context when useful.