Anh-Thien
Nguyen.

• Implementing social contractarianism as an algorithm inside a Sugarscape multi-agent simulation, extending prior lab work on altruism, egoism, utilitarianism, and Asimov's Three Laws.
• Translating the contractarian model — grounded in John Locke's social contract theory — into a bottom-up, democratically-ratified contract that agents propose, vote on, and can amend over time, marking a significant departure from the top-down ethical theories previously encoded in the simulation.
• All software and reproducibility instructions are publicly available at digital-terraria-lab.github.io; tracked research tasks and milestones using a Kanban board on GitHub Projects.

• Built a client authentication portal using Firebase Auth — email/password sign-in and self-service account creation behind a custom modal UI, with friendly error handling mapped from Firebase error codes.
• Integrating Stripe to enable clients to purchase HR templates directly through the portal.
• Researched five deployment platforms (Netlify, Vercel, Cloudflare Pages, GitHub Pages, AWS Amplify) and authored a written pros/cons comparison; selected Cloudflare Pages, updated GoDaddy nameservers, and connected the custom domain end-to-end.

• Built a full-stack allergy forecasting SaaS from scratch — patient-facing pollen dashboard, and a complete allergist portal — deploying both the frontend and backend to Vercel.
• Integrated Stripe subscription billing and built an internal admin dashboard tracking MRR, ARR, invoices, and failed payments with API response caching; wired a multi-step allergist registration wizard.
• Implemented Google OAuth with cross-origin auth (localStorage Bearer tokens), local pollen forecast, air quality page, profile photo upload, and a patient alert system — iterated from Railway to Cloudflare Pages to Vercel through a series of targeted CORS and auth fixes.

• Architected and built a full-stack business simulation platform replacing paper workflows — supporting two business types (Retail and Service), three access roles (admin, chair, team), and a transactional quarter-advance engine that atomically calculates revenue, expenses, sentiment scores, valuation, and stock prices across all teams.
• Implemented a layered financial engine across 10+ service objects (retail/service revenue, sentiment, assets, loan, board sentiment, projected profit, emerging options) with money-rails storing all dollar values as integer cents; added an A/B emerging-situations system whose chosen options apply targeted adjustments to any financial summary field.
• Deployed to Heroku with automated migrations on release; configured a GitHub Actions CI pipeline (Brakeman, RuboCop, importmap audit, 54 Minitest files); managed sprints and bug tracking with GitHub Issues and Projects using a Scrum workflow.

Open BERP

• Improved React frontend and Express.js backend for an SAT prep app — reducing query times by 45% for 500+ students.
• Designed reusable UI components with React and Tailwind to streamline teacher grading workflows — cutting grading time from 30+ min to under 5 min and tripling student engagement.
• Optimized Firebase database with indexing strategies — reducing page loads by 30% and boosting retention.

Open AceRocket

• Supported campus-wide IT operations using Jira and Confluence to track and resolve 1,000+ weekly requests, maintaining 95%+ satisfaction among faculty and students.

• Taught Lua and ROBLOX game development using interactive, project-based lessons for 100+ students (ages 7–12).
• Achieved 95% parent satisfaction and inspired 40% of students to pursue more coding courses.

• Collaborated with a team on GitHub to design and develop challenging data structure problems in Java for Bellevue College CCAU24 coding competitions, focusing on ArrayLists, Priority/Heap Queues, and Sorting Algorithms.

B.A. Philosophy  ·  Courses: Cloud Computing (AWS), Artificial Intelligence, Distributed Systems, Cybersecurity