BRANDON NGUYEN

Hobby-ist Programmer, and aspiring Software Engineer.
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Google Software Engineer Intern 2023

● Designed and implemented new features for the two Picture-in-Picture implementations in ChromeOS (Chrome browser, Android Apps) to reach feature parity with the PiP feature-set in Android phones.

● Designed a solution that allows detecting user gestures and transformations in the browser and in the Android OS and that forwards that information to the ChromeOS WindowManager.

● Worked in two repositories (AOSP, Chromium). Used Wayland Protocols to communicate across the two OS', Java/Kotlin for Android and C++ for Wayland and Chromium.

● Coordinating with Arc++, ChromeOS and UI/UX PiP teams to receive buy-in on an optimal design to the given project.

Google STEP 2022

● Designed and created the Skeleton UI loading page for the Assistant on Google TV to reduce user-perceived latency.

● Used Kotlin, Java, Android Studio and version control.

● Iterated over multiple solutions and received buy-in from the team on the proposed solution.

● Land server side changes to control rollout of new features.

Google STEP 2021

● Created a Go integration testing library for talking to Virtual Machines which enables faster iteration in load, performance, and integration-testing development.

● Created command line tools with new library to emulate linux file transfer protocols/ssh sessions with use of library-deployed SSHD services.

PROJECTS

All of my biggest and most fun projects.

MOOgiwara

A multiplayer online browser ONE PIECE TCG game simulator

SwordieDB

SwordieDB is a pip-compatible MapleStory database API that lets users create database-related products with ease.

SpiritIDAPlugin

An IDA (Interactive Disassembler) Plugin that adds some QOL features for MapleStory client reverse engineering.

Forward

A 2D Platformer game with a teleport mechanic, a game (Unity) created in a 1 week game jam under the theme "Holes".

CastFORM

A Pokemon TCG Deck Registration Sheet Generator, made in Flutter.

PolyBot

A Discord Bot that's goal is to allow easier communications for people who live in different places. It allows for google translations and measurement conversions and more!

GET IN TOUCH

All business inquiries or questions can be directed to my gmail as it is my most used email address.
Make sure to check out TEAM SPIRIT too, could not have gotten this far without them!