Tom Nguyen - Resume

Summary

Full Stack Developer & AI Engineer with 1,000+ hours of hands-on engineering experience spanning traditional enterprise systems and modern LLM workflows. Specializes in architecting scalable web applications, automated clinical and business solutions, and AI agent pipelines. Experienced delivering production software in HIPAA-sensitive healthcare environments, serving as a primary technical liaison to Directors and cross-functional stakeholders. CS graduate from Cal State LA.

Technical Skills

AI & LLM:AI Agent Architecture, Prompt Engineering, Gemini SDK, LLM Workflows

Cloud & DevOps:AWS EC2, Vercel, Netlify, Trigger.dev, Git / GitHub

Languages:JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Java, HTML5, CSS3 / SASS

Infrastructure:Clerk, Liveblocks, Stream Video SDK, Zustand, RESTful API Design

Frameworks:Next.js, React Native, MEAN Stack, Django, Flask, Spring Framework, Mendix, Expo

Databases & ORMs:PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, SQLite, Prisma Postgres

Experience

Software Developer - Texas Regional Physicians

Houston, Texas · Remote

Apr 2024 - Present

Architect, develop, and maintain a clinical portal serving 30+ clinic staff, doctors, and 10+ attorney users, with 40+ feature updates and UI enhancements delivered in the last 3 months alone.
Design and build staff-facing UIs using HTML, CSS/SASS, and JavaScript, translating complex clinical and legal workflows into intuitive interfaces for non-technical users.
Manage and optimize a PostgreSQL database with 50+ entities, adding indexes on consult queries to significantly improve calendar load performance in a HIPAA-sensitive environment.
Integrate the Curogram SMS API for appointment communications, including a targeted fix to batch-send logic that prevents surveys from incorrectly triggering on past appointments.
Serve as the primary technical liaison to Directors - gathering requirements, proposing solutions, aligning on approach, and delivering implementations on clearly communicated timelines.

Software Developer - Memorial MRI and Diagnostic

Houston, Texas

Nov 2021 - Apr 2024

Developed and maintained a centralized billing portal across 8 locations, receiving SFTP-transmitted HL7 documents from radiology systems and translating them into structured Mendix data for clinical staff.
Designed and maintained four company websites serving patients and referring physicians across 8 diagnostic imaging locations.
Managed a PostgreSQL database with 20+ entities, maintaining data integrity, backup procedures, and query performance across a multi-location imaging operation.
Integrated the EXA radiology information system via HL7 interface, enabling automated data transmission between external imaging systems and the internal Mendix portal.
Detected a silent breaking change when EXA updated their HL7 format without notice - identified missing data through proactive log monitoring, escalated immediately, and coordinated with EXA to restore full data transmission.

Resident Full Stack Developer - Coding Dojo

Greater Los Angeles Area

Sep 2019 - Nov 2021

Built and shipped multiple full-stack projects including an AI Flappy Bird (Neural Network + Genetic Algorithm from scratch), a School Library Platform (Django/SQLite), and a Canvas drawing app across diverse domains.
Applied Reinforcement Learning and Neural Network concepts to train autonomous game agents using Genetic Algorithms, implementing the full learning pipeline from scratch.
Developed and deployed full-stack web applications using Python, Django, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, and AWS EC2, covering the full lifecycle from local development to cloud production.

Projects

Development Plan Tool

GitHub | Live Demo

Real-time collaborative system architecture builder with AI assistance and interactive React Flow diagram editor.
Live cursors and presence avatars via Liveblocks; AI-powered design suggestions and auto-generated technical specs via Gemini.

Tech: Next.js, TypeScript, Prisma Postgres, Liveblocks, Trigger.dev, Gemini SDK, Clerk, Vercel

AI Language Learning App

GitHub

AI-powered mobile language learning app - a modern alternative to Duolingo with real-time audio calls with an AI teacher.
Supports 4 languages with 12 structured lessons, live captioning, pronunciation feedback, and daily XP streak tracking.

Tech: React Native, Expo, TypeScript, Stream Video SDK, Clerk, NativeWind, Zustand

AI Flappy Bird

GitHub | Demo Video

Rewrote Flappy Bird as an AI-driven version applying Reinforcement Learning and Neural Network concepts built from scratch.
Implemented a Genetic Algorithm for agent evolution with a repopulate function that mutates top-performing birds each generation.

Tech: JavaScript, HTML Canvas, Neural Network, Genetic Algorithm, Reinforcement Learning

Education

California State University, Los Angeles

May 2019

BS in Computer Science

Coding Dojo - Full-Stack Developer Bootcamp

Sep 2019 - Dec 2019

Full-Stack Certificate in Django, MEAN Stack, and Java Spring Framework · 800+ hours immersive training