Tyler Nguyen

Computer Science @ the University of Virginia

About

Hey, I'm Tyler. I'm from Virginia Beach, VA, and a third-year at the University of Virginia majoring in computer science.

I'm most interested in backend and AI agents. I like automating things and then making them faster. Lately that's meant agentic workflows.

Experience

Summer 2026

Fort Worth, TX

BNSF Railway

Software Engineer Intern

Migrated 60+ batch jobs from WebSphere to Spring Boot on OpenShift and made them 60% faster along the way.

Apr to May 2026

Remote

Booz Allen Hamilton

Software Engineer Intern

Built a multi-provider LLM gateway, an MCP-powered agent, and the guardrails that keep both in line.

Jan to May 2026

Charlottesville, VA

University of Virginia

AI/ML Researcher

Deep learning and generative AI.

Jan to Apr 2026

Hamilton, VA

MyAiPathways

AI Consultant

Built a resume screener that cut manual review by 75% and a platform that drafts offer letters for you.

Oct 2025 to Jan 2026

Charlottesville, VA

ML@UVA

Machine Learning Developer

Built an app that grades handwritten math tournament sheets 18x faster, from three minutes down to under ten seconds.

Sep to Dec 2025

Charlottesville, VA

theCourseForum

Software Engineer Intern

Built content moderation and new features for UVA's course review platform serving 10k+ users.

Projects

Rally

2026

Rally

A passive personal safety app that monitors sensor signals and automatically alerts friends when someone may be in danger.

  • React Native
  • Claude API
  • Node.js
  • Supabase
  • Express
CavRec

2026

CavRec

A full-stack intramural sports management system for UVA students with team registration, scheduling, and role-based auth.

  • Django
  • PostgreSQL
  • Amazon S3
  • Google OAuth
AI Shortform Video Generator

2026

AI Shortform Video Generator

A pipeline that turns Reddit stories into narrated vertical videos, using an AI judge to score posts and only render the ones worth watching.

  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • Claude API
  • ffmpeg
  • edge-tts

Skills

languages

  • Python
  • Java
  • C
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • SQL
  • R
  • HTML/CSS

frameworks

  • React.js
  • Node.js
  • Express.js
  • Flask
  • Django
  • Spring Boot
  • OpenCV
  • LiteLLM
  • PyTorch

tools

  • Git
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • OpenShift
  • Rancher
  • Jenkins
  • PostgreSQL
  • Keycloak
  • Linux