Background
I like building stuffs, whether it is technology or community.
- I grew up in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. "Bún Chả" is my favorite Viet dish.
- I attended the chemistry specialized class at HUS High School for Gifted Students. I did think of becoming a chemist, but eventually fell in love with programming.
- I took a gap semester before college and just do random stuffs. I organized big hackathons like HackCovy, worked for a tech startup, interned at a big event organizing vendor, and occasionally edit videos. I'm amazed seeing technology's presence in all part of life, and that makes me want to become a computer scientist.
- I did my undergrad at UIUC and worked across different areas of computer science. Had a lot of fun, met cool people, but eventually decided it was time to leave the cornfields. I wanted to do research and thought anything around AI would be crucial.
- So here I am at Wisconsin. I will do some innovative work, become an expert in something, and make some real impact, then hopefully graduate :-).
Publications
None so far.
Experience
My full CV is available here (last updated Jan 15, 2025).
- SWE Intern, Amazon — Summer 2023, Summer 2024, Summer 2025.
- SWE Intern, Synchrony — Summer 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023.
Writings
Selected writings on random topics. Each piece are kept as it was when originally published.- April 5, 2022 — Frederic Chopin in Paris.
- June 4, 2021 — My first semester at UIUC: Covid-19 and online school.