Luan Nguyen
Co-Founder at Standard Agents
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolLuan Nguyen is a founder and software engineer with 8+ years building developer-focused products and agencies from Charlottesville, VA. As Co-Founder of Braid and Standard Agents he blends product-led engineering with hands-on consulting to ship practical AI agents and bespoke web applications. He contributes to open-source form tooling—improving FormKit’s developer UX and broadening its internationalization footprint across many languages—demonstrating attention to both front-end polish and global accessibility. Earlier roles span UI development, QA automation, and even financial analysis and touring musician experience, reflecting a rare mix of technical rigor, operational empathy, and creative grit. Luan excels at turning user-facing polish and localization into scalable developer experiences that integrate neatly into existing stacks.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BA Economics, BA Economics at University of Virginia
Vietnamese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
rails-i18n10
internationalization10
localization10
ember-i18n10
vue10
i18n-js10
ui-design9
css9
html9
documentation8
animation8
svelte7
react7
formkit6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
formkit/formkit
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
Vue Forms ⚡️ Supercharged
Role in this project:
Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:4 releases, 73 commits, 29 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Luan's contributions primarily focus on enhancing the FormKit project's internationalization capabilities. They added translations for multiple languages, including Bulgarian, Hungarian, Tajik, Serbian, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Uzbek, Hebrew, and Slovak. These commits involved adding new locale files and updating existing ones with new validation messages and UI strings, thus improving the project's accessibility and usability for a wider audience.
vue3validationvuejs2vuevuejs3
formkit/auto-animate
May 2022 - Aug 2022
A zero-config, drop-in animation utility that adds smooth transitions to your web app. You can use it with React, Vue, or any other JavaScript application.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Luan primarily contributed to the documentation and UI of the `formkit/auto-animate` repository. Their work included correcting punctuation and casing in documentation files, enhancing the appearance of the Svelte tag list, and implementing a sponsored advertisement using HTML and CSS. They also updated the project's tagline, and removed an ad placement on the home page.
reactanimationdrop-inzerovue-react
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