Quynh Huynh IPA: \kwiɲ hwiŋ\

Seattle, WA 98105 · (408) 429-5423 · hp.quynh@yahoo.com

Welcome to my website! I'm Quynh (Quinn), an Applied Computational and Mathematical Sciences major at the University of Washington. I am excited to uncover patterns in data with analytic tools and dive more into data science with my foundation in mathematics.

Experience

Back-end Developer

NEXUS.Builders, University of Washington
  • Develop data management tables on MongoDB and functional REST API calls on Node.js for backend web development. In the progress of designing authentication protocols and integrating UW NetID login.
  • NEXUS.Builders is a project-finder hub for motivated students to build on professional skills and work on their passion outside the scope of the classroom.

Seattle, WA
September 2020 - Present

Tet in Seattle Festival

Logistics Committee Member
  • Organized internal operation procedures, hosting team-bonding events, and coordinating with other committees on hosting the 2021 virtual Lunar New Year festival for the Vietnamese American community and greater Seattle audience.

Seattle, WA
August 2020 - March 2021

Program Management Intern

Center for 21st Century Liberal Learning, University of Washington
  • Participated in a promotional outreach campaign for the Early Fall Start Program by providing individual guidance for the newly admitted students and producing online solutions for international student outreach. Successfully increased enrollment over 40% within 2 weeks.
Seattle, WA
June 2020 - September 2020

Orientation Committee Admin

Foundation for International Understanding Through Students
  • Coordinated welcoming and orientation events along with Q&A sessions for assisting the onboarding transition of incoming international students at the University of Washington for Fall 2020.
Seattle, WA
June 2020 - September 2020

Vice President of Clubs and Organizations

Associate Students of Pierce College Puyallup
  • Advocated for student organizations’ engagement and building communities on campus, successfully achieved +200% growth in active clubs, 95% satisfaction rate throughout 2017-2018 academic year.
  • Administered $17,000 budget for over 15 student organizations’ funding pool, oversaw 10-15 club-led events per quarter, and planned the use of $12,000 budget for Student Clubs Board’s training sessions and Clubs Fest quarterly events.
Puyallup, WA
August 2017 - April 2018

Education

University of Washington

Bachelor of Science
Major: Applied Computational and Mathematical Sciences, Focus: Quantitative Finance
Minor: Chinese Language

Annual Dean's List 2018-2019, GPA: 3.69

Seattle, WA
June 2018 - June 2021

Pierce College

Associate of Arts, Washington State High School Diploma

GPA: 3.94

Puyallup, WA
August 2016 - April 2018

Skills

Programming Languages & Tools
Useful Courseworks
  • Data Structures and Algorithm
  • Database Systems (SQL)
  • General Machine Learning and AI
  • Linear Optimization

Interests

In my free time, I enjoy reading fiction, honing my foreign language skills, and exploring new food spots in town. When it's sunny out in Seattle (sometimes), I enjoy hiking and biking with friends.

I'm a travelor at heart and love taking plenty of photos as my treasured memory tokens! Here are some of my favorite photos! You can click to see where these are taken.

Projects

Portfolio Visualizer

Personal Project

Using Python to create an interactive financial charting dashboard and allow users to simulate portfolio diversification scenarios. Users can compare returns history of the top 5 S&P 500 stocks (AAPL, AMZN, FB, TSLA, MSFT). The goal of this project is to help introduce portfolio diversification to newbies in Finance and utilize optimization analysis in several scenarios.

Upcoming features: Try out different weights strategies, and see actual optimal weights (rebalance monthly, yearly, or no rebalance options).

Toolbox: Pandas, Plotly, Dash, Dash Bootstrap Components, CSS

Tweet Trendsyis

Personal Project

Using Flask to fetch region hashtag trends from Twitter API, obtain sample of popular tweets for quick sentimal analysis with spaCy TextBlob and torchMoji (describing text with emojis). Users can explore a diversified trending topics and gain a better viewpoint on international news.

Upcoming features: Try out different language detection and analysis, emoji application.

Toolbox: Vue.js, Flask, Python, TwitterAPI, spaCy

COVID-19 Dashboard

Personal Project

Using dataset from the CDC on COVID-19 cases and deaths to create an informative dashboard on cases and deaths by COVID-19 by states and counties. User can select individual state to view COVID cases and deaths in addition to seeing time series of the growth overtime.

Upcoming features: Add in vaccinations data.

Toolbox: PowerBI