Thai Nguyen

YO.

ACM Cinema

Architected an 80+ endpoint, 15-entity booking platform with JWT/RBAC, facades, pagination, and Caffeine caching.
Led a five-person Scrum team in Jira and delivered a typed React client with domain hooks and Framer Motion polish.

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June 2025 – Present

RAG-Powered Portfolio

Full-Stack & Artist

Next.js 15GeminiUpstash RedisVercel AI SDK✚

This site: Gemini edge chat, Redis RAG, rate limits, and a pixel-art interface you are browsing now.

Mar – May 2025

CourseHub

Team Lead & Full-Stack

Best Class Project

Next.js 14MongoDBNextAuthGemini API✚

UGA course discovery with AI enrichment, community posts, and YouTube-backed study resources.

Apr – May 2026

Domain Expansion Exhibit

3D Modeler, Designer, Programmer

Three.jsGLSLJavaScriptlil-gui✚

Infinite-zoom Three.js exhibit with procedural domains, shader sky/water, and quality tiers.

Spring 2026

Bill Cipher Vaporwave

3D Programmer / Technical Artist

Three.jsGLSLWebGLPost FX✚

Stylized Three.js world: emissive character read, fat-line outlines, and a multi-pass post stack.

Spring 2026

Bird Audio Classification

Ideator, Programmer

PyTorchHuggingFaceHuBERTAST✚

Dual-backbone audio classifier comparing HuBERT and AST on a 10-species BirdCLEF+ slice.

Aug 2024 – May 2025

Bulldog Planner

Frontend Developer

ReactTypeScriptTailwind CSSDevDogs✚

DevDogs scheduling UI: responsive surfaces, filters, and iterative fixes on the optimal planner.

2026

Canvas 2D Physics Lab

Programmer

JavaScriptCanvas 2DWeb Audio✚

HTML Canvas sandbox with AABB collisions, motion integration, color lerp feedback, and collision SFX.

Apr 2024

Anime Info Translator

Developer

JavaFXJikan APIGoogle Translate API✚

JavaFX desktop app combining Jikan metadata with Google Translate output.

Nov – Dec 2024

Multithreaded Diagonal Sums

Systems Programmer

CpthreadBash✚

POSIX-threaded matrix diagonal reduction in C with a Bash harness showing ~3.2× speedup at 12.7M elems.

2025

AutoE-Presser

Script Developer

BashAutomation✚

Roblox-side utility shell script: toggleable key loop with audible armed/disarmed cues.

Aug 2025 – Present

ACM Cinema

Scrum Master & Full-Stack

Strong class demo / top-tier feedback

Next.js 16Spring Boot 3.5PostgreSQLTanStack Query✚

Multi-domain cinema booking: auth, movies, seats, promos, payments, orders, and admin — Spring + Next.

ACM Cinema

Architected an 80+ endpoint, 15-entity booking platform with JWT/RBAC, facades, pagination, and Caffeine caching.
Led a five-person Scrum team in Jira and delivered a typed React client with domain hooks and Framer Motion polish.

Explore

June 2025 – Present

RAG-Powered Portfolio

Full-Stack & Artist

Next.js 15GeminiUpstash RedisVercel AI SDK✚

This site: Gemini edge chat, Redis RAG, rate limits, and a pixel-art interface you are browsing now.

RAG-Powered Portfolio

Built Redis-backed RAG with embeddings, cosine ranking, corpus-hash re-embedding, and 24h query-embed cache.
Streamed Gemini via Vercel AI SDK with guards, retries, and IP rate limiting surfaced to the client.

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Mar – May 2025

CourseHub

Team Lead & Full-Stack

Best Class Project

Next.js 14MongoDBNextAuthGemini API✚

UGA course discovery with AI enrichment, community posts, and YouTube-backed study resources.

CourseHub

Shipped Mongo-backed forums and REST workflows while integrating Gemini + YouTube to cut manual prep ~90%.
Owned product direction, Figma system, and Kanban-driven execution across the team.

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Apr – May 2026

Domain Expansion Exhibit

3D Modeler, Designer, Programmer

Three.jsGLSLJavaScriptlil-gui✚

Infinite-zoom Three.js exhibit with procedural domains, shader sky/water, and quality tiers.

Domain Expansion Exhibit

Built queue-based domain scaling for a seamless infinite zoom loop with intro → runtime handoff.
Tuned transparency with renderOrder, depthWrite, alphaTest, and `onBeforeCompile` displacement on PBR.

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Spring 2026

Bill Cipher Vaporwave

3D Programmer / Technical Artist

Three.jsGLSLWebGLPost FX✚

Stylized Three.js world: emissive character read, fat-line outlines, and a multi-pass post stack.

Bill Cipher Vaporwave

Assembled scene/camera/renderer/lighting/fog/animation/post scaffolding in ES modules.
Chained bloom, afterimage, RGB shift, and gamma passes for the vaporwave read.

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Spring 2026

Bird Audio Classification

Ideator, Programmer

PyTorchHuggingFaceHuBERTAST✚

Dual-backbone audio classifier comparing HuBERT and AST on a 10-species BirdCLEF+ slice.

Bird Audio Classification

Trained/evaluated HuBERT vs AST with cached HF datasets, full metrics, and class reports.
Measured latency plus param/FLOPs estimates for presentation-ready comparisons.

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Aug 2024 – May 2025

Bulldog Planner

Frontend Developer

ReactTypeScriptTailwind CSSDevDogs✚

DevDogs scheduling UI: responsive surfaces, filters, and iterative fixes on the optimal planner.

Bulldog Planner

Implemented React/Tailwind views for schedule search, filtering, and redesign passes.
Partnered with backend-driven constraints while leveling up early in the React ecosystem.

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2026

Canvas 2D Physics Lab

Programmer

JavaScriptCanvas 2DWeb Audio✚

HTML Canvas sandbox with AABB collisions, motion integration, color lerp feedback, and collision SFX.

Canvas 2D Physics Lab

Simulated multiple shapes/polygons with velocity, acceleration, and collision response.
Visualized hits with interpolated color transitions and per-impact sounds.

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Apr 2024

Anime Info Translator

Developer

JavaFXJikan APIGoogle Translate API✚

JavaFX desktop app combining Jikan metadata with Google Translate output.

Anime Info Translator

Wired MVC-style JavaFX views to dual API flows with sane error handling.
Parsed Jikan payloads into tables/detail panes with translation pass-through.

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Nov – Dec 2024

Multithreaded Diagonal Sums

Systems Programmer

CpthreadBash✚

POSIX-threaded matrix diagonal reduction in C with a Bash harness showing ~3.2× speedup at 12.7M elems.

Multithreaded Diagonal Sums

Partitioned rows across workers with synchronized reduction to avoid races.
Tuned memory behavior and thread counts with repeatable benchmark scripts.

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2025

AutoE-Presser

Script Developer

BashAutomation✚

Roblox-side utility shell script: toggleable key loop with audible armed/disarmed cues.

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Packaged a tight automation loop with explicit on/off control and feedback.
First serious out-of-class scripting experiment for personal ergonomics.

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Vanilla JS + Shopify GraphQL brand platform for a rock band with shader-heavy “digital horror” presentation.

Custom Storefront API integration with hand-tuned GraphQL for merch flows.
VFX.js GLSL stack (CRT, chromatic aberration, fish-eye) aligned to usable hit targets.
Hardened structure: page modules, compressed assets, responsive passes, SEO basics.

Vanilla JSShopifyGraphQLVFX.js✚

Workshop program leader and brand steward for UGA ACM — DSA, system design, AI, and interview prep at scale.

Ran weekly CSIP sessions (20+ students) spanning algorithms, system design, AI, and behavioral prep.
Hosted AWS, Google, and other industry rooms with Q&A and technical labs.
Drove mascot, merch, and flyer refreshes in Figma to sharpen recruiting and culture.

FigmaWorkshopsMentorship✚

Portfolio Chatbox

RAG

Thai Nguyen (Impostor)

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ACM Cinema

RAG-Powered Portfolio

CourseHub

Domain Expansion Exhibit

Bill Cipher Vaporwave

Bird Audio Classification

Bulldog Planner

Canvas 2D Physics Lab

Anime Info Translator

Multithreaded Diagonal Sums

AutoE-Presser

ACM Cinema

ACM Cinema

RAG-Powered Portfolio

RAG-Powered Portfolio

CourseHub

CourseHub

Domain Expansion Exhibit

Domain Expansion Exhibit

Bill Cipher Vaporwave

Bill Cipher Vaporwave

Bird Audio Classification

Bird Audio Classification

Bulldog Planner

Bulldog Planner

Canvas 2D Physics Lab

Canvas 2D Physics Lab

Anime Info Translator

Anime Info Translator

Multithreaded Diagonal Sums

Multithreaded Diagonal Sums

AutoE-Presser

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