Masters, Computer Science · UIUC
PAUL
NGUYEN
Software Engineer
Building fast, scalable systems from the ground up.
01 — Academic
Education
University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign
Master of Science — Computer Science
GPA 4.0 / 4.0Oregon State
University
Bachelor of Science — Computer Science
GPA 3.8 / 4.002 — Work
Experience
Software Engineer Intern
NASA Johnson Space Center
JAN 2025 – MAY 2025 · Houston, TX
- Built Next.js analytics platform for NASAs exercise physiology team, replacing a 12-tab Excel workflow and cutting monthly crew health report generation from 20 hours to 45 minutes.
- Engineered D3.js visualization suite on a virtualized React data grid rendering 1M+ PostgreSQL records with a 75× query latency reduction (45s → 600ms).
- Built Python/Airflow ETL pipeline eliminating 10+ hours/month of manual file downloads for ARED analysts.
Software Engineer Intern
Lucid Motors
MAY 2024 – NOV 2024 · Newark, CA
- Discovered and patched a security vulnerability in TypeScript/NestJS, securing 5K workflows from potential data breaches by enforcing proper permission checks.
- Built real-time audit log with React, NestJS, and MongoDB change streams across 300+ workflows, enabling resolution of 40+ previously untraceable disputes.
- Reduced supplier onboarding regression testing from 8 to 2 hours with 12 Playwright E2E tests, catching 8 critical race conditions in production.
Software Engineer Intern
Summersalt
MAY 2023 – MAY 2024 · Remote
- Increased add-to-cart rate by 18% with a personalized product carousel, validated via A/B testing across 10K+ monthly users.
- Migrated 20+ legacy jQuery components to React, cutting page render time by 25% and cart load time by 1.2s.
- Optimized GraphQL queries via batching and caching, reducing latency from 2.1s to 1.3s across 50K+ monthly views.
03 — Deployed
Projects
PROJECT_001
DashHub
CSV-to-Dashboard SaaS with AI Insights
Upload any CSV and get interactive dashboards with anomaly detection and GPT-4o generated analysis reports. Full-stack SaaS with auth, subscriptions, and a polished React UI built on TanStack Start.
PROJECT_002
PromptMail
AI-Powered Email Assistant
NestJS backend with OpenAI API that automates email summarization and generates context-aware replies informed by full message history and user writing preferences. Secured with Firebase Auth.
PROJECT_003
BeavsHub
Full-Stack Course Review Platform
Course review platform adopted by 200+ Oregon State CS students, aggregating 2,200+ peer reviews with real-time difficulty ratings to inform course selection and degree planning.
PROJECT_004
IBM Notify
Unified Webhook Notification System
Upcoming IBM internship project — unified notification system ingesting webhooks from IBM EWM and routing them via Slack, email, and paging. Java-based with GitHub Enterprise REST APIs.