Nathan Lam
Senior Software Engineer at Spectrum Photonics, Inc.
Hawaii, United States
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Top SchoolNathan Lam is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building high-performance GUI applications, image processing pipelines, and computer vision solutions, currently based in Hawaii. At Spectrum Photonics he drove major performance gains (10x+), designed client-server architectures with gRPC, and delivered mission-critical GUI binaries for multiple DoD contracts. He has a strong Python stack with OpenCV, PyQt, and multiprocessing expertise, and a track record of automating testing and diagnostics to save hundreds of manual hours. Earlier work includes autonomous robotics and trust-by-design experiments at Booz Allen, where a proof-of-concept secured additional funding and demonstrated resilience to adversarial inputs. Comfortable in cross-disciplinary teams, Nathan combines systems-level thinking with hands-on implementation—often turning complex sensing requirements into deployable, real-time tools.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering at University of Hawaii at Manoa
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (58)
twitch10
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nathancy/nathan-lam.com
May 2017 - May 2019
Contributions:50 PRs, 182 pushes, 29 branches in 2 years
reactnextjs
nathancy/Starcraft2-Mini-Game
Jan 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:11 commits, 4 PRs, 8 pushes in 5 months
javastarcraftgamemini-game
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