Kody A. Nguyen
Co-founder and CTO
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
Intro to Game Development with Unity
3rd Place - Angelhack Grand Finals Singapore 2024
Best LGBTQ Short - Austin International Art Festival | The Veil (2019)
NASA International Space Apps Challenge 2024
Best LGBTQ Film - Tokyo Shorts Film Festival | The Veil (2019)
Databricks Accredited Generative AI Fundamentals
Python: Data Analysis Certificate
WINNER Best Technology - Cinequest Film & VR Festival | Loverboy (2023)
Udemy - Build Your Mixed Reality Game & Publish it on Meta's App Lab Certificate
Udemy - Multiplayer Virtual Reality (VR) Development With Unity Certificate
Film Festivals Awards | 360° 3D VR |The Veil (2019)
Dota 2 Champion Southeast Asia Division Tier 3 2020-2021
High Distinction, Australian National Chemistry Quiz 2007
1st Prize - ETH Vietnam BASE Bounty Winner
SWITCH Singapore 2024 Angelhack hackglobal Top 3
1st Prize Angelhack hackhcmc Digital Empowerment 2024
1st Prize AI Hackathon CodeX COTI SUCI 2025
2nd Prize, Telstra Hackathon 2016, Melbourne, Australia
2nd Place, Google + Deloitte Hackathon 2022, Melbourne, Australia
Spotless Hackathon 2016, MCG Stadium, Melbourne, Australia
Meta Presence Platform Hackathon 2023, Menlo Park, California
GovHack 2017, Melbourne, Australia
Consensus x EasyA Hackathon, Austin, TX
TOM Makeathon 2016, Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia
RMIT University Virtual Reality Hackathon 2019, Australia
1 Hacker Way, Meta HQ, Menlo Park, California
Google HQ, Mountain View, California
SpaceX Starship integrated flight test 4, Boca Chica, Texas
Grab Headquarters, Jakarta
NASA Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex
Starbase Launch site, SpaceX
Hollywood
Monkeypaw Productions & Jordan Peele's book
Guest speaker at Lac Hong University
VR Train White Night Melbourne 2018
Jaguar Factory with UWE Motorsports Club, UK
UWE Motorsports Club 2014
Startup Weekend Vietnam 2012
Oculus DK1 + PSMove
Working with Samsung GearVR + Oculus
Linux Users Victoria (LUV) - Tux Mascot
Tensorflow Image Style Transfer 2017
Virtual Production Stype Red Spy 3 + Blackmagic URSA Mini 12K
Youth Parliament Victoria 2016, Australia
AR Summit, Meta Spark Partner Network