Sweeney Ngo
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Sweeney Ngo

San Jose, California, he/him

for simple, head-first building

3 months ago

Work Experience

2024 — Now
Los Angeles, California

Design & development on our patient-provider platform in Unity + C# → React + TypeScript.

Development on CV training workflow in AWS + Python: rapid iteration, motion capture, and distributed training jobs.

2023 — 2023
Des Moines, Iowa

Life Insurance & IT
Development on pub/sub with AWS EventBridge for real-time processing for distributed systems.

Built auto-recovery feature for throttling & network failure from the API with AWS SQS + CloudWatch.

2022 — 2022
Des Moines, Iowa

Life Insurance & IT
Migration for Contract Management infra → AWS.
Built API with Lambda + Gateway + IBM ODM integration to optimize screening performance for high server workloads.

2021 — 2021
Los Angeles, California

Design and development on academic counseling platform with Next.js-- initial onboarding, automatic calendar updates, and in-app matching of users <> advisors.

Built web-based internal monitoring service with Node.js + Redis to support real-time sessions with active users.

2021 — 2021
Los Angeles, California

Design and development on drag-drop comparison feature for apartments with React + MongoDB.

Projects

2023

Learning micro-app about C++ pointers, animated & interactive for students.

React, TypeScript, Netlify

2022

Assess the validity of political texts from popular news sources.
"Best Overall Hack" among 150+ teams at LAHacks 2022.

TensorFlow, Keras, Flask, Docker, JavaScript

2022

Report sexual assault cases to matching network, empowering victims.

React Native, TensorFlow, Firebase, Docker, Flask

Side Projects

2024

An implementation of Conway's Game of Life (CGOL, pronounced c-gull) with HashLife + simulator running in the browser.

For more info, visit the blogpost!

2024

An item catalog/tracker for Terraria ("zenith-world").

2021

Quantify the level of anthromorphism of an image.

Volunteering

2019 — 2020
San Jose, California

Spread awareness on inequality & modern-day human trafficking.

Education

2020 — 2024
B.S. in Computer Science at University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
2016 — 2020
Independence High School
San Jose, California

Contact

Website
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GitHub
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