Nicolas Rinn
Software Engineer at Optiver
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolas Rinn is a software engineer and third-year Computer Science student at the University of Chicago with a decade of professional experience spanning military service and commercial software roles. After serving in the U.S. Air Force as a telecommunications technician and aeromedical evacuation controller, he transitioned into software, completing DoD-focused internships and contracting for the Marine Corps Reserve before moving into product-focused internships at Mercury and Google. At Google he worked on YouTube Music features and fine-tuned LLMs for medical coding in Google Cloud Healthcare & Life Sciences, and he now develops trading systems at Optiver while having co-founded a boutique media/tech studio, Checkpoint Pictures. His background blends disciplined, mission-driven operational experience with hands-on ML and full‑stack engineering across both defense and consumer products. Comfortable shipping features in high‑stakes environments, he brings a pragmatic, security-conscious approach and an entrepreneurial streak evidenced by founding a company while studying.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of ChicagoIstituto Statale Superiore "Carlo Anti"
Italian
Github Skills (19)
balena9
wifi8
rails7
captive-portal7
lora7
react6
fine-tuning5
iot5
llm5
linux5
clinical-trials5
llama4
mistral4
python4
api3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nicorinn/u-of-courses-site
May 2022 - Dec 2024
Contributions:30 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
nicorinn/UChi.CourseEvals
Mar 2022 - Dec 2024
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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