Benjamin Nguyen
Software Engineer Intern at Quant
Champaign, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Nguyen is a software engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building low-latency infrastructure and educational platforms for quantitative trading. As a founder and former CTO/CEO of Quant, he designs exchange-level market-data systems and developer tooling that expose level 3 HFT data to students and researchers while forging industry connections for recruitment. Currently interning on the software engineering team at CME Group, Benjamin blends systems-level thinking with attention to implementation detail—from Visual SLAM research to C++ and Java course instruction—helping others ramp up quickly in complex technical domains. He is passionate about widening access to quantitative finance for underrepresented students and balances technical curiosity with creative outlets like piano and game character optimization.
7 years of coding experience
Master of Computer Science Computer Science, Master of Computer Science Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Amador Valley High School
French, Chinese, English
Github Skills (13)
vscode9
visual-studio9
editor9
vscode-extension9
microsoft9
electron9
typescript9
visual-studio-code9
java4
javascript3
react3
nodejs3
scheduling1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
goldenxuett/Twitter-User-Scraper
Dec 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:11 commits in 2 days
ben44496/esp8266_udp
May 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:27 commits, 23 pushes, 8 branches in 2 months
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