Zack Nguyen
City of Ithaca, New York, United States
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Top SchoolZach Nguyen is a graphics-focused software engineer and student leader with nine years of hands-on experience building real-time rendering systems, developer tools, and full-stack applications. He specializes in real-time ray tracing, performance engineering, and modern graphics stacks—working deeply with Rust, TypeScript, WebGPU, and WebAssembly—while also shipping tools and experiments for Blender and Maya. Zach has a strong open-source pedigree (3,000+ GitHub contributions, top-50 contributor in Vietnam for five years) and founded a developer tooling org that shipped a featured Free Pascal debugger. He pairs academic research on BVH traversal and compiler-assisted cache algorithms with practical product experience from Android apps to Next.js front ends, and currently leads the Computer Science Undergraduate Council in Rochester. Unusually for a graphics engineer, he’s equally comfortable authoring plotting pipelines and FPGA experiments, reflecting a blend of creative, low-level, and community-building instincts.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering at NYU Tandon School of EngineeringMaster of Engineering - MEng, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at St. Anne's-Belfield SchoolKorea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
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Github Skills (147)
icon-pack10
e-library10
null-safety10
logos10
render10
svg10
branding10
3d10
vpn-manager10
javascript10
matrix10
shieldsio10
svg-files10
math-library10
webgl10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
cszach/reveal-init
Nov 2018 - Oct 2019
Create a new Reveal.js presentation project
Contributions:13 releases, 128 commits, 10 PRs in 10 months
presentationjavascripthoverreveal-js
cszach/flat-candies
Mar 2020 - Dec 2021
:video_game: My first p5.js game!
Contributions:3 releases, 2 PRs, 21 pushes in 1 year 9 months
js-gamejavascriptp5-jsvideo-gamep5js
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