Hi, I'm

Hoang Nguyen

I build data pipelines and automation at Penn Medicine, and small tools like PricePulse and Focus Bank on the side.

About

Data engineer with 5+ years turning clinical-trial data into reliable pipelines, databases, and reports at Penn Medicine's Center for Cellular Immunotherapies. Finishing an M.S. in Computer Science at Georgia Tech (Dec 2026); open to data engineering and Python automation roles in Philadelphia or remote.

Experience

Data Engineer

Penn Medicine, Center for Cellular Immunotherapies
Aug 2021 – Present
  • ETL and reporting pipelines in Python and SQL, cutting report preparation time 90%.
  • A Python desktop suite with a no-code report builder, plus serverless usage telemetry on AWS.
  • Study databases on Veeva Vault and PostgreSQL across dev/test/prod; data-cleaning tools that cut cleaning time 60%.

Earlier: Data Coordinator (Co-op), Penn CCI, 2019 · Research Assistant (Co-op), Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, 2018

Projects

Live · Data pipeline

PricePulse

Serverless price-history pipeline for ~3.7k IKEA and UNIQLO products: scheduled AWS Lambda jobs, idempotent loads into partitioned PostgreSQL, a FastAPI site, all in Terraform with CI/CD.

Live site → Repo →
Live · Web app

Focus Bank

A gamified focus timer: focused hours earn money toward rewards you set; distractions cost you. Works offline in your browser, with optional Google sign-in to sync across devices.

Open the timer →
Private · Automation

command-center

Self-hosted automation hub where scheduled LLM agents triage email, budget, and news into a daily brief, with an approval queue before anything acts.

Details on request

Skills & Education

Georgia Institute of Technology — M.S. Computer Science

Expected Dec 2026

Coursework: Database System Implementation, Intro to Graduate Algorithms, High Performance Computer Architecture, Software Development Process, Knowledge-Based AI, Human-Computer Interaction, Software Analysis, Introduction to Operating Systems, Computer Networks, Machine Learning for Trading.

Drexel University — B.S. Biomedical Engineering

2021

Minors: Data Science, Economics