Summary
Todd Nguyen is a software engineer with a decade of experience specializing in video codecs, signal and image processing, currently working on video codec hardware at Google. He holds a Computer Engineering degree from UIUC and is pursuing an MS in Electrical Engineering (Signal Processing) at UCLA, blending strong systems and hardware skills with academic depth. His internship work includes prototyping AV1 features, motion estimation, and developing AV1 pre-processor hardware, showing a rare end-to-end fluency from Matlab research prototypes to C and hardware implementations. Based in Saratoga, CA, he brings practical big-data and FPGA experience from roles at State Farm and Zeta Instruments, plus hands-on teaching and photography roots that inform his attention to visual detail. An avid cyclist, photographer, and musician, he often combines those hobbies with technical projects, reflecting a creative approach to engineering problems.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Master of Science - MS, Electrical Engineering - Signal Processing, Master of Science - MS, Electrical Engineering - Signal Processing at University of California, Los Angeles
Saratoga High School