Aria Nakamura Nguyen
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I am a software engineer looking for an opportunity to develop my career. I enjoy meticulous design and thoughtful organization to bring about intuitive solutions. I have a variety of skillsets I am interested in exploring, such as database management, UI/UX design, API development, and web animations.
I’m really into food and music. I currently work professionally as a cook and perform gigs as a mariachi violinist. These experiences have given me invaluable lessons in teamwork, task management, creativity, performing under pressure and/or time constraints, adapting to unforeseen situations, accountability, and self-motivation, all of which I believe are skills that translate to software engineering.
Some hobbies I am currently pursuing: playing pickleball with my mom, running, learning how to solve a Rubik’s cube, reading with my book club, knitting, board games, and font design.
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Skills
Languages
Database Management / ORM
Frameworks
Build, Test, Deployment, Cloud
Game Dev
Education
New York University, College of Arts and Sciences
August 2021 - May 2025 Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science and Music Minor in Web Design GPA: 3.44
Relevant Coursework:
- Operating Systems
- Algorithms
- Applied Internet Technologies
- Web Development and Applications
- Database Management and Analysis
- Software Engineering
- Intermediate Game Development
Member of:
- Mariachi Violetas de NYU
- Founding member
- Sectional director of strings and flutes
- Featured performance in collaboration with Carnegie Hall
- Tech@NYU
- Attended meetings, events, and workshops
- Participated in HofHacks, a sponsored hackathon, and awarded Best Design
Experience
Kalonade
Software Engineering Intern (Remote)
March 2025 - Present
- Build and optimize APIs and database operations in Go for a large-scale salon management platform
- Develop responsive, production-ready frontend features in React with TypeScript, focusing on usability for non-technical users
- Collaborate in an agile team alongside senior full-stack engineers, contributing to system architecture and design decisions
City of New York Department of Sanitation - Bureau of Recycling and Sustainability
College Intern
November 2023 - June 2024
- Engaged in a cross-team effort to migrate data for ~80,000 clients and ~100 CRM workflows from Zoho to Salesforce, ensuring data integrity and continuity during the transition
- Maintained the department’s WordPress-based website and published an independently-written article on sustainability
- Assisted engineering team with mass data cleaning for client accounts using Excel
Projects
Pubcrawl
August - October 2025
Team: Solo
Overview: Full-stack collaborative EPUB annotation web app using Spring Boot, React, Vite. Made for fun for use by my book club.
Yonder
April 2025
Team: 4 total
Overview: Full-stack event discovery platform using Flask, MongoDB, Docker, deployed through Digital Ocean with CI/CD. Created as part of the Software Engineering course at NYU.
Malachi Constant
April 2025
Team: 2 total
Overview: Full-stack React + Vercel web app that generates daily stock predictions via custom parsing algorithm. Created for HofHacks 2025, awarded Best Design.
Chuckletown
January 2024
Team: 5 total
Overview: Fast-paced bartending game created in GameMaker. Created for 2024 Global Game Jam - New York Site, awarded Runner-up for Best Game Overall.
TeamTuner
July 2024
Team: 4 total
Overview: Linked VSCode extension and Discord bot to improve code review and productivity. Created for Race System Solutions Hackathon in Tokyo, Japan, awarded 3rd place, Judges’ Special Award.
Resume
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Contact
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