Brian Nguyen

Skills

Mechatronics & Robotics

Feedback control & stability Discrete-time control State estimation (Kalman/EKF) Sensor fusion Modeling & simulation MPC & optimisation Interfacing sensors/actuators Systems integration

Software & Systems

C/C++ (OOP, modular design) JavaScript / Node.js Data structures & algorithms WebSockets (real-time systems) RESTful APIs LLM API integration Prompt engineering & tool routing Session/context management Rate limiting & resilience Docker & PM2 process management Cloud deployment (GCP, Render, Railway) Service monitoring with UptimeRobot CI/CD & version control Logging & observability Git/GitHub

Hardware & Fabrication

Fabrication & prototyping Mechanical workshop tools Machining fundamentals Materials handling SolidWorks CAD modelling Soldering & circuit prototyping

Design & Professional Practice

Requirements & stakeholder analysis Design validation Teamwork & communication Project management Ethics & constraints

Competencies

Academic foundation and applied implementation experience across robotics and software systems.

Controls & estimation

MTRN3020 — discrete-time control design and implementation.
MTRN3210 — feedback stability analysis and controller synthesis.
MTRN4010 — Kalman/EKF, sensor fusion, optimisation, MPC concepts.
Capability: translating mathematical models into executable control software.

Mechatronic systems

MTRN2500 — C++ OOP; hardware interfacing; MATLAB-based modelling.
MTRN3500 — DAQ systems, sensor integration (IMU/GPS/encoders), IPC and data flow.
Capability: integrating sensors, actuators, and computation into working systems.

Computer science & algorithms

COMP1531 — collaborative software engineering and testing practices.
COMP2521 — data structures and algorithmic problem solving.
COMP2511 — OO design patterns and maintainable architectures.
COMP3121 — algorithm design, complexity analysis, optimisation.

Applied engineering & deployment

DESN1000/2000/3000 — stakeholder-driven design, validation, professional communication.
Projects — cloud-deployed systems with logging, iteration, and real users.
Strength: converting theory into reliable, production-grade implementations.

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Projects

Selected builds with a focus on deployability and engineering clarity.

X-O RNG Web • Multiplayer

A Tic-Tac-Toe variant where each click randomly becomes X, O, or remains blank. Includes online multiplayer via WebSockets, room codes, spectators, and a round scoreboard.

Case study (soon) Live Demo
Commander Chaos Draft Web • Async Multiplayer • D1

An online Magic: The Gathering Commander draft tool that generates random singleton Commander card pools, supports blind commander selection with duplicate-pick resolution, and runs asynchronous snake drafts through persistent room codes.

Built with vanilla JavaScript, Cloudflare Pages Functions, and Cloudflare D1. Draft rooms persist across sessions, expire after 30 days of inactivity, and do not require any player to keep the page open.

Case study (soon) Live Demo
Discord AI Assistant LLM • Cloud • DevOps

Production-ready Discord AI assistant integrating an OpenAI-compatible LLM API with per-user memory summarisation, dynamic web-search fallback, and structured prompt tooling. Designed to participate naturally in server conversation through cached slang reactions, contextual interjections, rolling style analysis, and recent GIF reuse.

Hosted on Google Cloud Compute Engine with PM2 process management, environment-based configuration, logging, and deployment updates through Git/GitHub.

Not directly “click-to-open” (runs inside Discord). Architecture overview and screenshots available upon request.

Case study (soon) GitHub

Contact

For collaboration, internships, coursework discussion, or project questions:

[email protected]

GitHub • LinkedIn

Focus

Tooling