Colin Nguyen
Peer Mentor at University of Maryland – College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences
Laurel, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolColin Nguyen is a University of Maryland senior studying Computer Science with a Business Analytics minor, bringing 11 years of hands-on experience across software engineering, data science, and mentorship roles. He has interned at the NSA and FEMA and contributed backend code to the well-known Delta Lake project, improving Spark integration and table/catalog handling—demonstrating comfort with production-grade data infrastructure. As a peer mentor and TA, he pairs technical depth with teaching and collaboration, while research roles in public health highlight his ability to apply data skills to real-world problems. Energetic about machine learning and engineering, Colin seeks internships that let him learn quickly and tackle scalable data systems.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
University of MarylandHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Atholton High School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
spark10
delta-lake10
scala10
testing9
big-data8
acid8
analytics8
data-engineering8
nested6
knn6
pthreads6
logic6
react6
ipython6
multithreading6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
delta-io/delta
Oct 2024 - Mar 2025
An open-source storage framework that enables building a Lakehouse architecture with compute engines including Spark, PrestoDB, Flink, Trino, and Hive and APIs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 24 PRs, 3 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Colin primarily contributed to the Spark integration of the Delta Lake project, focusing on passing catalog table information and updating APIs to incorporate these changes. Their work included modifications to the `DeltaLog` and `TahoeLogFileIndex` classes, as well as updates to various commands related to table modification and generation of symlink manifests. The user also contributed to tests and streamlined existing vacuum-related code.
analyticsprestodbflinkbig-dataspark
ctring/genex
Jun 2017 - Sep 2018
Time series matching with Multiple-warped distances
Contributions:233 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
distancesdynamic-time-warpingtime-series-analysismatchingtime-series
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