Anh Nguyễn (Vietnamese: Nguyễn Hưng Tuấn Anh), BSc MSc IT, professionally known as Kody A. Nguyen, is a developer, photographer, and award-winning technical director.

For more than a decade in film and AI, XR, blockchain industries, his work has earned him several prestigious film awards and technology award recognitions, including accolades from the Cinequest VR & Film Festival - Best Technology award in Silicon Valley, California; Tokyo Shorts Film Festival; Austin International Art Festival; Telstra + Microsoft hackathon and the Google + Deloitte Hackathon, AngelHack Hackathon.

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/akodyn

IMDb Profile: https://imdb.com/name/nm14273052

Crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/person/kody-a-nguyen

80.lv: https://80.lv/talent/p/kodya-n

Awards

• 1st Place - ETH VN Base Bounty 2025

• 1st Place - AI Hackathon SUCI x CodeXchain 2025

• Best Developer Project - Vibe Code with COTI Bangkok 2025

• Nominated for Best Immersive at the VR/AR Expo China in Shanghai, China 2025

• 1st Place - AngelHack Digital Empowerment hackhcmc 2024

• 3rd Place - AngelHack Grand Finals hackglobal 2024

• Finalist for Best International Production at the 'nextReality Festival' in Hamburg, Germany 2024

• Best Technology Award at the Cinequest Film & VR Festival in Silicon Valley, California 2023

• Finalist in the 'Laval Virtual ReVolutions #Experiences' Competition held in Laval, France 2023

• 2nd Place - Google + Deloitte Australia Hackathon 2022

• Champion - Dota 2 Southeast Asia Division, 28 August 2021

• Champion - Dota 2 Southeast Asia Division, 25 January 2020

• 2nd Place - Microsoft + Telstra Australia Hackathon 2016

• 2nd Place - Biomedical Engineering Flying Egg Challenge 2013

• The Honor Roll - Outstanding Merits at External Relations Department Term V, IU HCMC, Vietnam 2013

• The Honor Roll - Outstanding Merits at External Relations Department Term IV, IU HCMC, Vietnam 2012

• 1st Place - Water Rocket Challenge, HCM International University, Vietnam 2012

• Honored at the District Informatics Olympiad, HCMC, Vietnam 2008

• High Distinction - Australian National Chemistry Quiz, Junior Division 2007

Media Presence / Press

• Top 3 team ProEye - Angelhack Grand Finals Singapore (2024): https://angelhack.com/blog/hackglobal-grand-finals-recap

• Kody's review of Vision Pro and Quest Pro for Tinhte.vn news (2024): https://tinhte.vn/thread/video-so-sanh-meta-quest-pro-va-apple-vision-pro.3762129 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi35VJkAq50

• Kody's Presentation at Melbourne Metaverse + RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia (2022): https://youtu.be/jRKUvDe4_Vo

• Guest speaker at Computer Science Department, Lạc Hồng University (2018): https://lhu.edu.vn/166/32301/Hoc-hanh-va-lam-viec-nghiem-tuc-de-khang-dinh-thuong-hieu-ban-than.html

• Melbourne Film Festival (2018 and 2019): Melbourne Film Festival credits Kody as shown in this link https://miff.com.au/vr

• CTO Vietnam Network (2024): https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ctovietnam_ctosummit2024-kodyanhnguyen-digitaltransformation-activity-7262295313166557184-fuIV

• Vietnamworks inTECH article (2024) : https://intech.vietnamworks.com/article/cong-nghe-thuc-te-ao-la-con-dao-hai-luoi-doi-voi-nganh-game

Education

• Bachelor of Computer Science, International University, Vietnam National University HCMC

• Bachelor of Computing, University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom

• Master of Information Technology, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

• PhD Social and Political Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia