# Hey, I'm Thien 👋
### Pioneer · Developer · Engineer
> Turning complicated challenges into simple, scalable, and sometimes phenomenal solutions 🚀
I'm **Thien Le** — pronounced like the letter **T** — originally from 🇻🇳 Vietnam.
🎓 **Computer Science graduate** from the University of South Carolina
🔐 Minor in **Cybersecurity Operations**
⚙️ Interested in **Software Engineering, Automation, AI, Data, Trading Systems, and Distributed Systems**
🧠 I love reverse engineering problems, experimenting with ideas, and building things that actually work
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## 🚀 What I Like Building
- ⚙️ Automation & scalable workflow systems
- 🕷️ Web scraping & data pipelines
- 🤖 AI-powered applications & autonomous agents
- 📈 Algorithmic trading & quantitative systems
- 🌐 Full-stack applications
- 🔐 Security-minded systems
- 🧪 Weird ideas that might turn into something great
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## 🛠️ Tech
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Languages Python · JavaScript · TypeScript · Java · Go
Frontend React · Next.js · HTML · CSS
Backend FastAPI · APIs · Automation
Data Web Scraping · Selenium · Data Pipelines
Tools Git · GitHub · Docker · Linux
Exploring AI Agents · LLMs · Quant Trading · Distributed SystemsCrawl → Walk → Run → 🚀
But why stop at running when we can build the rocket?
I enjoy taking messy, difficult problems and asking:
"There has to be a better way to do this."
Then I build it.
- ⚡ Reduced workflow runtime by 99%
- 📈 Increased data coverage by 2.3×
- 🕷️ Helped scale workflows to 30+ integrations in a week
- 🗃️ Worked with pipelines processing millions of records
- 🧑🏫 Taught and supported students in programming, algorithms, and data structures
while True:
learn()
build()
break_things()
understand_why()
improve()AI Agents · Quantitative Trading · Automation · System Design · Go · Distributed Systems
I'm always interested in:
Cool engineering problems · ambitious projects · new technologies · crazy ideas that might actually work
Thanks for stopping by 👋
⭐ Feel free to explore my repositories!