Lam Nguyen

I'm a computer science student at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, transferred from De Anza College in 2026. I like building things end to end: in high school I taught myself BrightScript over a summer at Roku and ended up coding most of a TV app, then came back in 2024 to mentor around thirty incoming interns. I led programming for my FRC team, and I competed in cybersecurity with CyberPatriot, where our team placed Platinum at the state round with the highest overall score of the year.

Lately my work sits somewhere between AI and hardware. I build desktop tools around local and cloud multimodal LLMs — fine-tuning with LoRA and running open-weight models through llama.cpp and Ollama — and I prototype physical things like assistive transcription glasses and a piezoelectric floor tile, which means a lot of CAD, 3D printing, embedded C, and low-level assembly work.

Outside of code, I was a Life Scout working toward Eagle, and after I turned 18 I served as an assistant scoutmaster for the two years I attended community college. I also helped run MESA and represented the club at Inter Club Council, and I'm bilingual in English and Vietnamese.