Software Engineer, Meta August 2022-Present
Building 0→1 products for FB Stories as an Android engineer
Who Am I?
Hi, I'm Thien Nguyen! I’m a software engineer at Meta on the Facebook Stories Lab Team,
where I build 0→1 products for Facebook Stories.
I graduated from Brown University as a Sidney E. Frank Scholar with double degrees in Computer Science (Sc.B) and Economics (A.B).
Outside of work, I love to inspire others to live their best lives and help people get in their bag on social media. To relax, I love to catch up with friends, try new restaurants, dance in my room to bops and watch suspenseful shows.
I'm open to collaboration on TikTok/Instagram, UGC, partnering on side projects, speaking at events and job opportunities. Feel free to reach out through email or
Linkedin to connect with me!
Work Experience
Chief Technology Officer, Provenart August 2022-June 2023
Provenart aims to eliminate fraud in the art industry by allowing collectors to own their art. Our mission is to democratize the art industry for all.
Head Teaching Assistant, Brown University November 2021-May 2022
Data Science
- Hired, trained and led a staff of 22 TA’s to help 150 student’s debug their code and learn data science
- Worked closely with the course professor, Lorenzo Stefani, to plan out projects and the course curriculum for the semester
Teaching Assistant, Brown University August 2019-December 2021
Artificial Intelligence, Data Structures and Algorithms & Functional Programming
- Led weekly workshops for 40+ students on debugging techniques and algorithms
- Mentored 12+ students to course success
- Held weekly office hours to help students with their coursework and debug their code
Software Engineer Intern, Microsoft May 2021-July 2021
- Shipped a feature that generated insights from telemetry events, reducing 1000s of Windows engineers investigation time into Windows quality issues by 86.6%
- Developed APIs, built UI and integrated them together to support filtering and pivoting of data using C#, Kusto, ASP.net, React, and MobX
- Presented my project and a demo to 80+ software engineers, data scientists, and executives at Microsoft
Explore Intern (Software Engineer + Program Management), Microsoft May 2020-August 2020
- Developed a dynamic time measure analysis dashboard with visuals, which improved Azure engineers ability to diagnose Azure issues, using TypeScript, HTML, CSS, BootStrap, Angular Material, d3.js
- Conducted customer research and designed UI mockup using Figma to handle color sensitivity and content accessibility
Technology Chair, Economics Department Undergraduate Group September 2019-May 2020
- Built and designed a website to inform 100s of economic students of resources using Javascript, HTML, CSS, Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator
- Increased student engagement with website by 250% from 50 to 125 students monthly
Consulting Intern, Noah's Ark Hong Kong July 2019-August 2019
- Conducted a social enterprise consulting project to assess and improve Noah’s Ark $25 million efficiency
- Presented the project consisting of 6 solutions tackling food waste and food accessibility to 5 executives at Noah’s Ark
- Executed activities as part of Rainbow Dream Camp, an English language camp for 100+ underprivileged children
Technical Projects
CS1951A Data Science
- Implemented a map reduce pipeline to parse through 190,750 movie ratings using PySpark
- Recommended movies for users through calculating the degrees of similarities between any two movies based on the users that rated each movie using correlation, regularized correlation, cosine similarity, and Jaccard similarity
CS0320 Software Engineering
- Collaborated with 3 other teammates to build a web application which recommends campus food to students
- Led as the frontend developer on team, which involved designing the user experience, implementing 7 landing pages using Javascript, HTML and CSS, troubleshooting UI bugs, and creating 40+ food graphics using Adobe Illustrator
CS1410 Artificial Intelligence
- Implemented alpha beta pruning cutoff with a voronoi heuristic to optimize the performance of a bot playing Tron using Python
CS1470 Deep Learning
CS0180 Data Structures and Algorithms
- Built a search engine using Scala that indexes XML files and returns a relevant query utilizing natural language processing
- Leveraged the PageRank algorithm and TF-IDF to determine document relevance
CS1380 Distributed Systems
- Built a simple distributed filesystem using Go based on Oceanstore, a project that was developed at UC Berkeley in the early 2000s
- Implemented access control list, allowing users to set permissions on their files
