Duy Nguyen
Scientific Software Engineer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
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Top SchoolDuy Nguyen is a Scientific Software Engineer with nine years of experience building full-stack, research-focused tools for major NASA missions and observatories. He blends dual training in Astronomy-Physics and Computer Science from the University of Virginia with practical expertise in Python, C++, and cloud-hosted Jupyter platforms to deliver data analysis and visualization systems for HST, JWST, Roman, and high-energy astronomy. At NASA Goddard and STScI he maintains mission-critical archives and web-based analysis pipelines, and at Green Bank Observatory modernized legacy codebases while coordinating Agile teams as a Certified ScrumMaster. Comfortable translating complex science requirements into maintainable software, he also contributes to open-source archives like the NASA HEASARC SkyView. Colleagues rely on him for bridging domain science and production engineering—often surfacing subtle instrument or data quirks into robust, reproducible workflows.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science at University of Virginia
Github Skills (67)
python10
astronomy10
core-library10
orbital-mechanics10
astrology10
science10
jupyter10
astrophysics10
astropy10
astrodynamics10
data-analysis10
iraf9
mercury9
jupyterlab9
binder9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
gphoton-tools/ggui
Jun 2017 - Mar 2020
Contributions:3 releases, 393 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 9 months
user-interfaceglue
duytnguyendtn/jdaviz
Jul 2020 - Mar 2025
JWST astronomical data analysis tools in the Jupyter platform
Contributions:4 PRs, 643 pushes, 118 branches in 4 years 8 months
data-analysispythonmercuryanalysis-toolsjwst
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