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derekn4/README.md

Hi, I'm Derek Nguyen!

I'm a Software Engineer with 3.5 years of experience building full-stack systems, native iOS apps in Swift, and cloud infrastructure on AWS and Azure. I enjoy diving deep into performance optimization and distributed systems. In my personal time, I enjoy gaming, traveling, and videography!

🧰 Languages and Tools

Python JavaScript TypeScript C# .NET Docker Java C++ Swift React Kubernetes Azure

🔭 What I Do

  • Native iOS development (Swift) at ScreenBeam
  • Full-stack web apps with React + TypeScript / Node.js
  • Distributed backend services in C# / .NET on Azure (Cosmos DB, Service Bus)
  • Cloud-native deployment with Docker + Kubernetes
  • Event-driven / async messaging architectures (Service Bus, Kafka)
  • API design (REST, WebSocket) with OpenAPI documentation
  • Performance optimization (40% DB query improvement, 75% QA time reduction)

🎓 Background

  • M.S. in Computer Science (Machine Learning specialization) — USC
  • B.S. in Computer Science (Intelligent Systems specialization) — UCI

🌱 Currently Exploring

  • System Design
  • Cloud architecture patterns
  • C++ Development
  • iOS Development

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  1. CurfewBot CurfewBot Public

    CurfewBot for Discord Servers to make your friends responsible gamers and go to bed earlier

    Python 1

  2. EmpatheticLLM EmpatheticLLM Public

    Few Shot LLM Training of GPT2 Dialogue models to output empathetic responses

    Jupyter Notebook 1

  3. plot_hole_detection plot_hole_detection Public

    Forked from Derposoft/plot_hole_detection

    Training BERT transformers on synthetic data to detect Plot Holes in Fantasy Novels

    Python

  4. PillClassification PillClassification Public

    Training Vision Transformers on a subset of pill images for drug classification

    Jupyter Notebook 1

  5. Lane-Detection Lane-Detection Public

    Computer Vision video processing of dash camera footage to detect lane lines

    Jupyter Notebook 1

  6. WaterWake WaterWake Public

    Computer vision head detection triggered by an alarm to shoot water at the user in order to wake up

    Python 1