Khai Nguy

Software Development Engineer

📞 604-606-2680 ✉️ khai.nguy@gmail.com 🔗 LinkedIn Profile

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Class of December 2023 • GPA: 3.83
Systems Programming Intro to Artificial Intelligence Analysis of Computer Algorithms Operating Systems Software Testing Relational Database Systems

Experience

Software Development Engineer Intern
Amazon, Seattle WA
June 2024 - Present
  • Designed and implemented an end-to-end solution to migrate the team's email notifications system to Amazon's federated architecture, enhancing team's ownership in deployment while supporting 10M+ notifications/day
  • Collaborated with senior engineers and 3 cross-functional teams to define migration requirements
  • Leveraged Amazon's internal deployment pipeline to automate integration testing, monitoring processes
  • Delivered technical documentation adopted by 6 engineers to support onboarding and development
Research Intern
PurSec Lab, West Lafayette IN
June 2023 - December 2023
  • Developed and modified the Android Kernel to implement and test 3 new security frameworks
  • Developed a custom fork of FlowDroid + FlowFinder + in Java, enhancing source and sink identifications for taint analysis and handling complex data flows
  • Developed 2 mobile applications using Kotlin, analyzing 300+ data flows to identify potential security risks
  • Explored and analyzed 10+ security vulnerabilities and threats within mobile systems, focusing on permission groups
Information Technology Intern
Jayner Education, New York City NY
June 2022 - Aug 2022
  • Led interactive sessions to teach computer science concepts to students aged 11-15, fostering a solid foundation in programming principles, data structures and algorithms
  • Developed engaging coding projects using Python, Lua, Java and C++ to inspire student creativity, enhancing practical coding, and communication skills, resulting in a 26% improvement from average quality scores
  • Provided 7 hours of lecture in a weekly basis, incorporating theoretical and practical components
Software Engineer Intern
Grant Thornton LLP, Ho Chi Minh Vietnam
June 2021 - Aug 2021
  • Developed and maintained applications and microservices using Node.js, React, and SQL
  • Migrated 30+ GB of data from in-house servers to Microsoft Azure, enhancing data accessibility and security
  • Collaborated with a team members to implement Oracle NetSuite and SAP Business One for 3 major clients, streamlining their business operations and reducing manual data entry by 30%
  • Conducted A/B testing on different versions of the implementation, increasing 15% in client engagement

Projects

SigniFy: ASL to English Converter
FastAPI OpenCV scikit-learn OpenAI API
  • Developed a web application to convert American Sign Language (ASL) to English text
  • Implemented backend using FastAPI and Python, integrating custom-trained model for ASL detection
  • Deployed application on Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 instance to ensure scalability and accessibility
  • Utilized OpenAI API to convert detected ASL phrases into grammatically correct English sentences
BillBoard: AI-Powered Legislative Transparency Platform
Django React PostgreSQL pgvector Llama
  • Led full-stack development of a LLM-powered platform that provide digestible summaries of congressional bills
  • Utilized PostgreSQL and pgvector for storing vector embeddings to enable bill searching and personalization
  • Managed backend infrastructure using Docker to ensure consistent deployment and scalability

Technical Skills

Languages

Java, Python, C/C++, SQL, Lua, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML/CSS, PHP, Golang, Rust, Kotlin

Frameworks

React, React Native, Svelte, Next.js, Node.js, Nginx, Express, YARN, Kafka, Firebase, Django

Developer Tools

Git, Docker, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, VS Code, Neovim, Linux, SQLite, PostgreSQL, JUnit

Libraries

pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, PyTorch, Voyager