Nam Phung

Master of Science in Computer Science

2022 - 2024

University of Minnesota - Duluth, Duluth, MN

• GPA: 4.0/4.0
• Master’s thesis: Predictive In-memory Multi-Level Indexing Algorithm for Spatiotemporal Trajectory Streams in Distributed Environments.

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science & Statistics

2015 - 2019

University of Minnesota - Duluth, Duluth, MN

• GPA: 3.77/4.0

• Programming Languages: Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, R, Java, C/C++, Racket, Scala.
• Framework: Node.js, Electron.js, FastAPI, Flask, Scikit-learn, Pandas, NumPy, TensorFlow, PyTorch
• Database: MySQL, MongoDB, SQLite, PostgreSQL.
• Version Control System: Git.
• Methodologies: Agile, Scrum.

Graduate Teaching Assistant

08/2022 - 04/2024

University of Minnesota - Duluth | Duluth, MN

• Taught labs on machine learning, data structures & algorithms, and C++ programming.
• Graded assignments and provided feedback during weekly office hours.

Full Stack Developer

03/2020 - 07/2022

BioTuring Inc. | HCMC, Vietnam

• Developed API endpoints and API server utilizing FastAPI to facilitate biotechnology dataset search and visualization in BBrowser — A software solution that helps scientists effectively analyze single-cell omics data.
• Utilized ggplot2 and ComplexHeatMap libraries to build data visualization tools for scRNA-seq analysis in BBrowser.
• Increased monthly usage of BBrowser’s scientific plotting feature by 50% in Q1 and Q2 2022 through performance improvement.
• Developed an internal ETL pipeline using Python and AWS cloud, reducing data curation time by 40% through automation.
• Improved work efficiency by 20% by building a wrapper library for Python’s concurrency and multiprocessing library and developing an internal back-end server for task scheduling and parallelization in BBrowser and BioTuring Enterprise Server Platform (BESP).
• Researched & developed a cell type searching algorithm within a database containing 16 million cells. Contributed to the company’s revenue growth through successful licensing agreements with pharmaceutical companies and research institutes.

Machine Learning Engineer

12/2019 - 03/2020

Vietnam Communications Corporation | HCMC, Vietnam

• Developed an internal distributed system using Python to analyze machine learning and deep learning on 80,000 videos from the Vietnamese Lotus social network per day, resulting in a 30% increase in efficiency.
• Created API endpoints using FastAPI library for ML analytics service.