At age 8 my classmates were out playing ball and watching Disney. I was glued to the computer writing HTML and CSS for my favorite movie stars’ fan pages.
I was drawn to the Internet for a few years, but quickly drifted away in middle school. For years I thought about what I wanted to be: A doctor? Architect? Mathematician? Software seemed to be lost in the pile that was my future, but I made my way back to my calling when I took a JavaScript class at a community college in 11th grade. I thought: Okay, I’ll give it a try but there’s no way I can 4-0 this class if I’m up against college students. Little did I know I’d end up in the 95th percentile.
Programming. I never looked back since.
Since then, I: took a Java class in 12th grade; interned at Microsoft Research (only one of the most desirable teams in all of tech land) where I researched D-RAM; did 2 internships at UW Medicine where I learned the art of hacking Unix Bash scripts for data processing automation, used command line interface, built MySQL databases for querying, wrote Python API’s, contributed to open-source projects and learned version control via GitHub; completed my BS in Computer Science as Magna Cum Laude, presenting a project utilizing MVC framework AngularJS and a variety of AWS. Now I'm a software engineer at the #1 avionics manufacturer Honeywell, prototyping C++ source code and low-level drivers, learning embedded systems and practicing statistics on data.
I’m a big believer of strong CS fundamental knowledge and practices: good object-oriented design, algorithms, data structures. By nature I’m detail-oriented, gravitate toward positions where I jump into unfamiliar code bases and debug failures, and refactor…because my code better look pretty. I work well alone and also collaborate closely with colleagues. Strong in written communication and developing a love for presenting to large audiences. What I’m VERY drawn to is data, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and statistics.
Software Development Engineer @ From July 2015 to Present (6 months) Software Engineer @ Authoring System Design Documents (low-level requirements) for navigation system.
Programming embedded system (real-time computing, hardware and hardware protocols, memory mapping, multithreading, and networking protocols) in C++.
Analyzing navigation unit performance through statistics and Six Sigma tools. From September 2014 to May 2015 (9 months) Software Engineering Intern @ Cut 6 hours of work per month for level 6-engineer by writing 900 lines (39%) of VBA to automate updates for Electromagnetic Compatibilities database.
Determined "no-fix" for outstanding Level E function Change Request in navigation unit by tracing and writing C & C++ code that satisfies all levels of requirements. From June 2013 to September 2013 (4 months) Software Engineering Intern @ Provided conversion tool for minimally supported 4D DICOM files by contributing a sum of 344 lines of Python to open-source branches of dcmstack and nibabel.
Wrote suite of 10+ neuroimaging analysis tools consisting of Python, Bash and GNU Make (parallel processing and workflow) scripts and API, and a SQL database for querying data.
Kick-started usage support for new open-source data archival system by writing REST API wrappers via Python and displaying lab-specific reports by customizing the system’s internal code via Java and XML. From June 2011 to June 2013 (2 years 1 month) Greater Seattle AreaMS-Research Intern @ Produced high-level picture of D-RAM chip performance variability by testing the chip under different environmental conditions and writing C++ and Perl code to test results. From June 2010 to September 2010 (4 months) Developer & Designer @ Increased business exposure and competitive edge by creating and maintaining business website.
Maintained 800+ customer relationships per year by designing (Adobe Photoshop) and delivering holiday cards, business cards and fliers. From June 2006 to August 2010 (4 years 3 months) Business Intern @ Support in various departments such as administrative, marketing, accounting, appraisal and brokerage. From April 2008 to September 2009 (1 year 6 months)
BS, Computer Science & Software Engineering, Magna Cum Laude @ Seattle University From 2010 to 2014 Ly Nguyen is skilled in: Python, C++, Programming, CSS, Visual Studio, C#, HTML, MySQL, Linux, OOP, Software Engineering, Github, Photoshop, Eclipse, VBA
Websites:
https://github.com/UW-IBIC,
https://github.com/lxn2,
http://lynguyen.me