Sam Nguyen
Owner, Artist at Say it With Glass Designs
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolSam Nguyen is an educator-turned-artist who blends 11 years of teaching and curriculum development with a passionate practice in custom stained glass, running Say it With Glass Designs from Durham, NC. As a Gifted Education Specialist and content developer, Sam brings storytelling, pedagogy, and hands-on instruction to community classes and institutional projects, helping clients translate personal narratives into one-of-a-kind glass pieces. A member of the American Glass Guild and a recognized local artist, Sam embraces failures as creative opportunities—a perspective honed by a serendipitous start repairing a broken kitchen window. Beyond glass, Sam contributes to open-source tooling as a full-stack developer, helping implement autocomplete specs for notable CLI projects like withfig/autocomplete, demonstrating rare fluency across craft, education, and technical collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
Academically and Intellectually Gifted Licensure Program, Academically and Intellectually Gifted Licensure Program at Duke UniversityMaster of Education (M.Ed.), Elementary Mathematics, Master of Education (M.Ed.), Elementary Mathematics at North Carolina State University
English, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (12)
autocomplete10
typescript10
typescripts10
typescript-types10
cli10
webpacker9
webpack9
wasm-bindgen9
shell8
bash8
helm7
rsync7
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
withfig/autocomplete
Mar 2022 - Apr 2022
IDE-style autocomplete for your existing terminal & shell
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 9 commits, 4 PRs in 7 days
Contributions summary:Sam contributed significantly to the project's autocomplete functionality, primarily focusing on defining specifications for various command-line tools. They implemented new autocomplete specs for `wasm-bindgen`, `webpack`, and `wasm-pack`, providing detailed command-line options and arguments. Further, they refined existing specs by suggesting current tokens for the `--out-name` option within the `wasm-bindgen` configuration. Additionally, the user merged branches and integrated various completion specifications into the project, along with new file specs for `sam`, `rsync`, `helm`, and `twiggy`.
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neoncitylights/dotfiles
Nov 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:43 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
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