# Richard Huynh

> Software Engineer at CaptivateIQ

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/richardhuynh

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ CaptivateIQ
Jan 2021 – Present
CaptivateIQ is pioneering the new standard in commission management and enabling companies to reclaim the power of incentives with a platform built for growth.

### Software Engineer @ Stride
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021

### Software Engineer @ Personal Projects
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Das Haustelles, Full stack application, hostel focused online booking platform
• Utilized the React.js library to create a reusable availability calendar component. 
• Configured Jest testing framework with Enzyme following Test Driven Development and maintain consistent code coverage of above 80%.
• Diagnosed page load bottlenecks and improved page performance resulting in a PageSpeed Insights score of 98.
• Deployed 4 EC2 microservices via Docker behind a proxy-server architecture improving web application scalability.

### Software Engineer @ Personal Projects
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Wicha Workout, Workout tracker fullstack application
• Constructed a single-page workout tracker application using React Router, demonstrating a proof of concept within a 2 day deadline. 
• Leveraged bcrypt for password hashing and  implemented user authentication allowing access to user specific data and maintain data integrity.
• Supported CRUD operations in RESTful architecture allowing users to retrieve and log exercises performed from read and write queries to a PostgreSQL database.

### Software Engineer @ Personal Projects
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | GrounDnD, System design for short term home rental service
• Designed, deployed, and scaled a backend for a related homes microservice to support 10M+ records on EC2 using a t2.micro instance.
• Optimized PostgreSQL read latency for multi-column range query from 2s to 12ms using multi-column b-tree indexing.
• Implemented a round robin HTTP load balancer via NGINX to achieve a throughput of 300 rps and an error rate of 0% during high, concurrent user connections.
• Improved average response time by 200ms by configuring Redis as an in-memory data cache resulting in an average latency of 700ms during high stress server load.

### Sr. Computer Systems Validation Specialist @ Veeva Systems
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019
• Utilized JIRA and SDLC Agile methodology  to collaborate with software and quality assurance engineers to reduce the number of  issues prior to production go-live. 
• Managed the validation effort  of 6  quarterly general software releases for Veeva’s SaaS product (Vault) including hot fixes in between the general releases.

### Computer Software Validation Engineer @ PSC Biotech
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017

### Computer Software Validation Engineer @ MacroGenics, Inc.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016


## Education
### Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering
UC San Diego

### Advanced Software Engineering Immersive
Hack Reactor


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/richardchuynh

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Last updated: 2026-04-11