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Riley
Leong

Data Engineer and Project Manager

Mathematics of Computation Major at UCLA. Passionate about using data to solve business needs, leading teams, and generating impact.

About Me

Hi! I'm Riley 👋
I'm a UCLA senior majoring in Mathematics of Computation - a joint Math + CS program that fuels my passion for building impactful technology.
I thrive at the intersection of engineering and business, with hands-on experience as a data engineer and project manager.
I love uncovering the "why" behind the data and turning insights into real solutions. My mission: create products that matter.
Always happy to connect—let's build something great!

My Experience

May 2025 - August 2025

Data Engineer Intern

Fidelity Investments | Durham, NC

Engineered a generative AI tool allowing internal teams to quickly search for common production issues based on past MS Teams Messages

September 2024 - Jan 2025

Project Management Intern

OPN Healthcare | Los Angeles, CA

Led a team of 13 data science interns with AGILE methodology to produce a cost modeling tool for oncology regimens and automate KPI dashboards

June 2024 - September 2024

Data Science Intern

First American | Santa Ana, CA

Developed Python scripts to innovate ETL process and reformed data integration process using R and SQL Server

January 2024 - April 2024

Student Data Science Intern

Poppin | Los Angeles, CA

Engineered 1st data pipeline for social media startup with Snowflake, dbt, and Airflow. Visualized user/financial metrics in Power BI dashboard used directly in pitch securing Crunchbase funding.

September 2023 - December 2023

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

UCLA Mathematics | Los Angeles, CA

Mentored peers in Introduction to Computer Science taught in C++, Introduction to Statistics taught in R, and Calculus I

June 2023 - September 2023

Associate Substitute Instructor

Benicia Unified School District | Benicia, CA

Developed curriculum for K-5th grade students in summer program covering elementery algebra and mathematical intuition

My Projects

Easy-Apostrophe project

Easy-Apostrophe

Created a VS Code extension that makes creating lists of strings, comma-delimited items, and many more structures easier using TypeScript and VS Code deployment terminal

TypeScriptVS CodeGithub
Healthy Communities project

Healthy Communities

Conducted principal component analysis in Python to reduce a county health dataset and perform feature extraction to support evidence for established causes of physical inactivity

PythonTableauPCAMachine Learning
Data-Valex project

Data-Valex

Developed web application in React Native and TypeScript supported by Python library GX to perform simple binary and boolean operations on uploaded datasets

React NativeTypeScriptPythonGreat Expectations
NLP Application project

NLP Application

Created a framework in Flask performing exploratory data analysis and transformation on media data in Python and performed regression and classification tasks in PyTorch to predict personality types from social media post captions

MongoDBFlaskOpenAI APIPyTorch

My Skills

Python
SQL
R
C++
C
TypeScript
Java
HTML
CSS
MATLAB
Snowflake
SQL Server
MongoDB
Kafka
Spark
Pandas
React
Git
Linux
AWS
Kubernetes
Tableau
Vercel

Get In Touch

Let's build something amazing together! Feel free to reach out through any of these channels.