hiep@hiepndev.pro:~$ whoami
Hiep “Henry” Nguyen
// SOFTWARE ENGINEER · DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS · ML
Software engineer who builds distributed systems and ML infrastructure — and still owns every line that ships.
Role
Software Engineer
Based
Dallas–Fort Worth, TX
Focus
Distributed Systems · ML Infra
Education
M.S. CS, TCU '28
Currently
// MAY 2026 — PRESENT
Graduate researcher at TCU, building RL pipelines that teach LLMs to write faster GPU kernels.
Selected work
2026 –
Graduate Student Researcher
Texas Christian University
Fine-tuned a GRPO solver that raised KernelBench fast@1 success from 14% to 58%, generating CUDA/Triton kernels 2.4x faster than optimized PyTorch baselines.
2025
Software Engineer II
CBRE Group Inc.
Architected a Kafka-driven caching and invalidation layer handling 2M+ daily requests, cutting P95 latency 65% — work recognized with the CBRE CDTO Excellence Award.
Featured project
Jarvis
April 2026 – July 2026Wearable AI Memory for Meta Ray-Ban Glasses
Built a real-time speaker identification pipeline for Meta Ray-Ban audio streams using Resemblyzer voice embeddings over a buffered WebSocket connection, dynamically mapping anonymous transcription labels to named contacts