Thong Nguyen
Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Snowflake
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolThong Nguyen is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale AI systems, currently leading an LLM fine-tuning platform at Snowflake after driving GenAI reasoning and post-training for Microsoft Copilot. He combines a Caltech PhD in particle physics with hands-on roles at Microsoft, Google X, CERN and top research institutes, applying rigorous scientific computing and statistical analysis to industrial AI problems. His work spans from particle-physics discovery pipelines to productivity-focused generative models, reflecting a rare ability to translate deep research into production-grade ML. A member of the World Economic Forum Expert Network and European research networks, he brings both academic credibility and product-facing impact. Notably, his background in experimental physics and computing operations at CERN informs a systems-level approach to managing large data and compute infrastructures for modern ML.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS Physics at The University of Texas at DallasBachelor of Architecture, Bachelor of Architecture at Hanoi University of ArchitectureCalifornia Institute of TechnologyHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Hanoi-Amsterdam High School for the Gifted
c++, python, English, Vietnamese
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Github Skills (41)
cms10
agentic10
data-science9
azure-machine-learning9
chatgpt9
artificial-intelligence9
command-line-interface9
pytorch9
python9
ai9
azure9
deep-learning8
machine-learning8
autogen8
azure-cli8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
thongonary/GitHub_Graph
Nov 2025 - Nov 2025
Hack GitHub contribution graph
Contributions:518 pushes in 1 day
thongonary/HbbIN
Oct 2019 - Jul 2020
Tensorflow implementation for the interaction networks for boosted Higgs to bb tagger
Contributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 9 months
tensorflow
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