Tom Nguyen

Software Developer

Houston, Texas · Remote

• -Architect, develop, and maintain a clinical portal serving 30+ clinic staff, doctors, and 10+ attorney users, with 40+ feature updates and UI enhancements delivered in the last 3 months alone.
• -Design and build staff-facing UIs using HTML, CSS/SASS, and JavaScript, translating complex clinical and legal workflows into intuitive interfaces for non-technical users.
• -Manage and optimize a PostgreSQL database with 50+ entities, including adding indexes on consult queries to significantly improve calendar load performance in a HIPAA-sensitive environment.
• -Integrate the Curogram SMS API for appointment communications, including a targeted fix to batch-send logic that prevents surveys from incorrectly triggering on past appointments.
• -Serve as the primary technical liaison to Directors, gathering requirements, proposing multiple solutions, aligning on approach, and delivering implementations on clearly communicated timelines.

Software Developer

Houston, Texas

• -Developed and maintained a centralized billing portal across 8 locations, receiving SFTP-transmitted HL7 documents from radiology systems and translating them into structured Mendix data for clinical staff.
• -Designed and maintained four company websites serving patients and referring physicians across 8 diagnostic imaging locations.
• -Managed a PostgreSQL database with 20+ entities, maintaining data integrity, backup procedures, and query performance across a multi-location imaging operation.
• -Integrated the EXA radiology information system via HL7 interface, enabling automated data transmission between external imaging systems and the internal Mendix portal.
• -Detected a silent breaking change when EXA updated their HL7 format without notice. Identified missing data through proactive log monitoring, escalated immediately to the supervisor, and coordinated directly with EXA to adapt the integration and restore full data transmission.

Resident Full Stack Developer

Greater Los Angeles Area

• -Built and shipped multiple full-stack projects including an AI Flappy Bird (Neural Network + Genetic Algorithm built from scratch), a School Library Platform (Django/SQLite), and a Canvas drawing app, demonstrating rapid prototyping across diverse domains.
• -Applied Reinforcement Learning and Neural Network concepts to train autonomous game agents using Genetic Algorithms, implementing the full learning pipeline from scratch.
• -Developed and deployed full-stack web applications using Python, Django, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, and AWS, covering the full lifecycle from development to cloud production.