Hoang Nguyen
Software Engineer (SDE-II) at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Urbana, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolHoang Nguyen is a Software Engineer (SDE-II) with 13 years of experience building scalable systems, currently working on AWS Payments at Amazon Web Services. He holds a PhD in Computer Engineering from UIUC and blends deep research experience with practical engineering—from transformer-based NLP pipelines to production payment services. His background spans academia and industry R&D, including smart grid sensing projects and GNU Radio-based tools, reflecting strong skills in systems, signal processing, and applied ML. Hoang enjoys experimenting with AI-driven solutions and designing data pipelines that serve multiple downstream applications, bringing a researcher's rigor to production-grade software. Based in Urbana, Illinois, he is comfortable navigating both low-level technical challenges and large-scale distributed systems.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor in Computing (Computer Engineering), Computer Engineering, Bachelor in Computing (Computer Engineering), Computer Engineering at National University of Singapore
English, Vietnamese
Github Skills (2)
testbed8
mininet7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
hoanghai/adsc
Jul 2012 - Aug 2012
Contributions:23 commits in 1 month
SocialSim/SimulatorCore
Feb 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:9 commits, 13 pushes in 29 days
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