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Shirley Nguyen

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Virginia, United States

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    Data Engineer
    SYSTOLIC, INC (Intelligence Community Contract)
    May 2025 - Current (1 year 5 months)
    ETLed, analyzed, and modeled up to billions of records using PySpark and SQL, earning recognition as the team's top performer. Helped lead the Foundry migration by providing platform feedback, requirement alignment, and ETL SOP suggestions to Palantir. Proactively wrote common code, documented processes, and onboarded new engineers to increase team-wide data throughput.
  • National Security Agency
    Data Scientist
    National Security Agency
    Sep 2023 - May 2025 (1 year 9 months)
    Identified a weakness of the enterprise level OCR model, designed and implemented a solution that did not require costly model retraining or finetuning, and demonstrated improvement in model performance through experiments and metrics. Held leadership positions to improve business processes in the math and visualization communities, and mentored new hires. Improved UI and performance of a tool enabling text search and extraction from images using OCR models and evaluated models. Supported military field operations by developing real-time SIGINT data science tools, and participated in the design and instruction of the pilot offering of a Data Science for Marines course. Led end-to-end development for a social network analysis and visualizati
  • Lockheed Martin
    Software Engineering Intern
    Lockheed Martin
    May 2022 - Sep 2022 (5 months)
    Developed enterprise robotics process automations (RPA) to automate business processes. Performed ETL on Blue Prism exception and queue data to deliver the team's first performance metrics through live Tableau dashboards, providing leadership the visibility required to evaluate the team and justify continued funding.
  • M1 Finance
    Software Test Engineering Intern
    M1 Finance
    May 2021 - Dec 2021 (8 months)
    Built first automated web E2E test suite, and wrote E2E, contract, and web integration tests for user onboarding. Developed proof of concept for reducing test flakiness and improving screen reader accessibility.
  • Los Rios Community College District
    Mathematics and Statistics Tutor
    Los Rios Community College District
    Jan 2021 - Aug 2021 (8 months)
    Served as an embedded tutor in a statistics course and assisted students with physics, math, and statistics questions by drop-in.
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  • Johns Hopkins University
    MSEng Information Systems Engineering Courses
    Johns Hopkins University
    Jan 2025 - May 2025 (5 months)
  • University of California, Los Angeles
    BS Mathematics of Computation
    University of California, Los Angeles
    Jun 2021 - Aug 2023 (2 years 3 months)
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    AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification
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    Online Store Monitoring Tool
    Apr 2023 - Jun 2023 (3 months)
    Built OCR pipeline to extract comic book cover text and compare against their listings, enabling more accurate inventory tracking.
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    Landslide Fatality Prediction Research
    Oct 2021 - Dec 2021 (3 months)
    Published Medium article documenting development, selection, and evaluation of regression models using NASA landslide data.
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    Project Manager & Principal Engineer
    Sep 2020 - Nov 2020 (3 months)
    Led a team of students, academic researchers, and NASA professionals in developing a concept for a lunar power generator. Submitted a NASA new technology report and proposal and achieved finalist consideration for funding out of 50 teams.
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    Lead Scientist & Payload Engineer
    May 2020 - Aug 2020 (4 months)
    Designed and presented a proposed Mars mission to NASA with a team of students, receiving high remarks on design document.
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    NSA Special Achievement Award
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    NASA New Technology Report
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    Lockheed Martin STEM Scholarship