About
With over 15 years of experience working in multiple domains, I have developed a strong foundation in various aspects of IT. My passion for web development started early on, building websites for clients since my college years. I began my career as a product designer and later transitioned to a full-stack engineer, where I honed my technical skills and gained a deeper understanding of software development. In the last 3 years, I have focused on data engineering as well as building and scaling machine learning solutions. I earned my degree from Carnegie Mellon University where I acquired a strong foundational Computer Science knowledge and spent the last 5 years working as an engineer at Amazon, where I was able to contribute to the development of large scale innovative applications and gained valuable experience.
UI/UX Designer & Software Engineer & Machine Learning Engineer.
"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking." - Henry Ford
- Website: www.hoa-vu.com
- Location: USA
- Degree: Master
- Consulting: www.codegenieconsulting.com
Available for freelance or consulting and coaching.
Skills
I have a very wide sets of skills from UX/ UI to full stack development, data ETL and building machine learning solutions. My super power is that I can pick up any project and would be able to learn anything new within 1 week even if it's new technology or programming language and produce result right away. I also have great communication skills and collaborate with others well.
Resume
I have a passion for learning and trying new things. That's why every 3-5 years, I changed hats within my field to be doing/ learning something different that would challenge and excite me intellectually. I am at a point in my career where I can build anything from scratch and would be able to scale it to serve hundreds of millions of users and can put together a team to do so
Summary
Hoa Vu
Multi-talented designer/ engineer. Can wear many different hats across many disciplines.
- Saint Petersburg, FL
- codegenieconsulting@gmail.com
Education
Master of Science - SoftWare Engineering
2015 - 2017
Carnegie Mellon University
Specialized in Software Engineering
Bachelor of Science - Computer System
2008 - 2012
4 years Dean's list and won multiple awards
Patent
Automated graphic generation for data sets identified using artificial intelligence
Dec 21, 2021
Honors & Awards
10-xerlerator - Startup Accelerator
Issued by One Fund Ohio's New Entrepreneurs - NCT Ventures
April 2010
- Received $20,000 grant by One Fund Ohio's New Entrepreneurs - NCT Ventures among 300 applicants to be 1 of the 10 team compete for $200,000 funding to start up a business
- 11-week intensive summer business development program under the guidances of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists
- Press
FIRST PLACE - Northwest PA College Business Plan Competion (2010-2011)
Issued by Center for eBusiness & Advanced IT (eBizITPA)
May 2011
- Won $7000 first prize out of a 3-round competition among 59 college team entrants and a panel of former entrepreneurs and venture capitalists.
- Press
SECOND PLACE - Fifth Annual Student Technology Forum 2011
Issued by Consortium for Computing in Undergraduate Education (C-CUE)
March 2010
- Presented on Software Development Cost Analyzer - Software Cost Estimation using Function Point Analysis
- Developed software application for calculating software development cost using Function Point Analysis
Professional Experience
Amazon - Software Engineer
2017 - 2022
Seattle, WA
Worked within a few different teams (Amazon Advertising, Amazon Fashion, Prime Video) and wide range of systems: from building front end, back end systems to big data, distributed systems and a Machine Learning platform that supports running and scaling ML models and deploying them to production. That includes:
- API integrations
- Full stack development with Java, React
- All applications were built on top of AWS so Im very familiar with the ecosystem
- Big Data Generation/ Cleaning/ Transform (ETL) Process from multiple data lakes
- Built Machine Learning pipelines that brought recommendation model to productions
- Built core parts of Models Training, Model Inference and Models Evaluation
- Built prediction Engine that generates predictions based on customers' past behaviors and preferences
Jiff - Product Designer/ Software Engineer
2012 - 2015
Palo Alto, CA
- Joined as a Product Designer, but independently self-studied computer science through online MIT and Stanford courses and subsequently got promoted to a software engineer role
- Grew from 10 to 100 employees to acquisition by CastLight Health Inc for $135 million in January, 2017
- Helped design the UX and developed the front end of a diabetes monitoring app that won Best Design Award in Consumer Electronic Show 2013
- Used gamification (incentives, challenges, badges, leaderboard) to increase user engagement, participation and loyalty
- Scaled the design and front end HTML/ CSS to work with multiple themes and clients
Xamples - Founder/ CEO
2010 - 2012
Palo Alto, CA
- Sole founder, raised over $30,000+ in capital.
- Featured in TV Tokyo Japan's World Business Satellite (one of Japan's largest TV networks)
- Designed and built a marketplace that provides sampling and new product launching solutions to consumer product companies. Reduced the cost of traditional product sampling and launching by 60% by targeted marketing research
- Won $7000 FIRST PRICE from a three-round Northwest PA College Business Plan Competition, competing against other 59 college team entrants in Pennsylvania (2010 - 2011). Final presentation was judged by a panel of former successful entrepreneurs, executives and venture capitalists
- Competed with 300 applicants around Ohio and Pennsylvania to be one of the top 10 teams to receive $20,000 seed funding from 10Xerlerator - a startup accelerator modeled after Ycombinator
Services
I offer a wide range of services that catered to your need
Software development
I offer a full range of software development services, including software architecture design, software development and testing, machine learning engineering solutions, project management, quality assurance, and training and mentoring
Cloud Solutions
My cloud solutions services include cloud strategy and planning, cloud migration, cloud-native application development, and DevOps automation. My expertise is in AWS but other cloud providers would be similar
FAANG Interview Prep
I worked at Amazon and have conducted multiple technical interviews. I also recently passed the interview at Google for software engineer position. I will help you to come up with a study plan depending on your timeline and mock interviews to ensure your success
Contact
Currently the contact form doesnt work so please contact me through email
Location:
Saint Petersburg, FL 33704
Email:
codegenieconsulting@gmail.com