Nick Vu

Hello!

I'm Nick.

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I'm a Senior Computer Science student at Michigan State University.

When I'm not building software products, I enjoy tinkering with old technologies and experimenting with my homelab.

Frameworks
React.jsAstro.js.NET (learning)
Languages
PythonTypeScriptSQLC# (learning)HTMLCSS
Infrastructure
DockerLinuxProxmoxTailscale
Tools & AI
GitCodex

Experiences

United Wholesale Mortgage

Software Developer, Contractor | B.S. Capstone

Sep 2025 - Dec 2025

Pontiac, MI

  • Developed an internal KPI dashboard backed by .NET services and data from multiple reporting sources, reducing status - report preparation time by 70%.
  • Built reusable React components for role-based views, drill-down workflows, and analytics visualizations that helped teams identify trends and outliers faster.
  • Added trends, variance, and forecast visualizations, cutting Q&A time in KPI meetings from approx. 20 to approx. 10 minutes.
  • Wrote unit/component tests using Vitest and React Testing Library, improving reliability and reducing regressions during iteration.
  • Collaborated with internal stakeholders to refine requirements, resolve issues, and deliver iterative improvements to the dashboard.

Imagine Software

Software Developer | Client: AppAware

Jan 2025 – May 2025

East Lansing, MI

  • Collaborated with a student development team to build the mobile UI for AppAware, a digital wellness app focused on helping users understand and improve phone usage habits.
  • Developed React Native interface screens for the app’s prototype, including dashboard views for user intention score and phone-usage insights.

Techainer

Machine Learning Engineer Intern

May 2024 – Aug 2024

Hanoi, Vietnam

  • Developed and evaluated a Vietnamese text-to-speech pipeline by fine-tuning Parler-TTS and CosyVoice, improving pronunciation accuracy and speech naturalness for application use.
  • Prototyped a tablet-based virtual teaching assistant that delivered personalized learning support and classroom-oriented user workflows.

Imagine Software

Artificial Intelligence Engineer | Client: YouLearn.AI

Sep 2023 – Dec 2023

East Lansing, MI

  • Built a Streamlit-based application that generated adaptive curriculum flows in real time based on user topic selection and learning progress.
  • Integrated LLaMA, GPT, and LangChain into a virtual teaching assistant platform that supported educational experiences for over 1,000,000 users.

Projects

Testronaut

Testronaut

A project for Oakland University's hackathon, Grizzhacks (we won second place! :)). A CLI tool that makes various parts of the software development lifecycle faster, including test cases generation, code performance analysis, refactoring suggestions, and CI/CD pipeline check.

github
Jester.io

Jester.io

My first hackathon project for Michigan State University's Spartahack (we didn't win though). An attempt to make video lectures more enjoyable by converting them into short-form videos, with voiceovers from any famous character.

github