Summary
Raymond Nguyen is a Junior Software Engineer based in Chicago, blending 8 years of hands-on engineering experience with undergraduate studies in Computer Science and Statistics at UC Irvine. He has built low-latency trading and developer tools at Valkyrie Trading using C++ and C#, including async I/O, non-blocking patterns, and GUI utilities that speed testing and market workflows. His background spans data science research—experimenting with neural activation behaviors and risk modeling—and practical scraping and ETL systems that optimized data collection throughput by 3x. Comfortable across systems, databases, and front-end tooling, he brings a pragmatic focus on performance and automation. Notably, he pairs quantitative curiosity with production engineering: converting research insights into tools that improve developer productivity and trading operations.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Computer Science, Associate's degree, Computer Science at Orange Coast College
University of California, Irvine