Jaiden Nguyen

Jaiden Nguyen

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Software + Digital Hardware

Software + Digital Hardware

Get to know me

Get to know me

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I build software and digital hardware, and the tests that check them.

My projects span TypeScript and React Native apps, SystemVerilog and SpinalHDL designs verified with cocotb, and FPGA communication over UART and TCP.

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position

company

duration

Software Engineering Intern

Northrop

June 2026–Present

Electrical Integration Intern (Avionics)

Astranis

February–June 2026

R&D Co-op

Northrop

May–December 2025

Software Engineering Intern

Pfizer

May–August 2024

position

company

duration

Software Engineering Intern

Northrop

June 2026–Present

Electrical Integration Intern (Avionics)

Astranis

February–June 2026

R&D Co-op

Northrop

May–December 2025

Software Engineering Intern

Pfizer

May–August 2024

Jaiden Nguyen

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Digital hardware

4 months

FPGA Grounded Flight Box

FPGA Grounded Flight Box

An FPGA-based ground mission-control box for an experimental steerable-rocket research project. I'm building the digital logic, communication paths, and operator workflows that link the ground node to the vehicle during testing, and I verify them in simulation first. Testing is planned with the UMD Rocketry Club.

Software + hardware

6 months

Budget Autonomous Air Ground System

Budget Autonomous Air Ground System

A low-cost drone and rover pair that share one ArduPilot control stack. The goal is to show that inexpensive off-the-shelf hardware can support coordinated autonomous operation in the air and on the ground. Current work covers tuning each vehicle, keeping telemetry in sync, and testing air-to-ground coordination.

Tech Stack

Tech Stack

ArduPilot

ArduPilot

Software + hardware

3 months

Lab Boat

Lab Boat

A full-scale research vessel used as a shared test platform for sensors, mission computers, and communication links. I maintained its ArduPilot navigation stack and handled motor tuning, radar integration, and telemetry for the groups that relied on it. I also presented a proof of concept at a demo day.

Tech Stack

Tech Stack

ArduPilot

ArduPilot

Software + hardware

1 year

Autonomous Environmental Survey Vessel

Autonomous Environmental Survey Vessel

A team-built autonomous vessel for mapping nitrate, oxygen, pH, and temperature across Chesapeake Bay. I worked on the ArduPilot/OpenPlotter navigation stack, sensor integration, and early neural-network models for dead-zone prediction. The project reached splash testing and helped secure a U.S. Coast Guard research grant.

Tech Stack

Tech Stack

ArduPilot

ArduPilot

OpenPlotter

OpenPlotter

Digital hardware

6 years

Bitcoin Mining Rig

Bitcoin Mining Rig

A 32-GPU rig of NVIDIA RTX 3090 cards that I built in high school with my father and my cousin, then ran for five years. It taught me power distribution, thermal planning, and how to diagnose GPU failures under sustained load. With mining no longer profitable, I'm converting the hardware into an AI compute cluster.

Software

Nexus

Nexus

Nexus is narb's edtech platform for schools, built at the AI startup I co-founded. It grew out of narbl, our earlier multi-LLM chatbot aggregator.

Software

NoTestudo

NoTestudo

A React Native behavior-change app that I coded entirely for narb. It integrates a wearable API over OAuth, with background sync, local storage, and optimized geolocation. NoTestudo won the UMD xFoundry Oura Ring Challenge.

Tech Stack

Tech Stack

React Native

React Native

Software + hardware

Rally controller architecture illustration: SystemVerilog, Python, UART and TCP.

Rally

Rally

A remote FPGA controller for a Pong game. The player's client sends ball and paddle positions over an SSH tunnel to a relay on a friend's computer, and the FPGA controller returns a bounded paddle move over UART. The SystemVerilog controller has been demonstrated in simulation but hasn't run on FPGA hardware yet.

Tech Stack

Tech Stack

SystemVerilog

SystemVerilog

Python

Python

UART

UART

Digital hardware

GNSS receiver acquisition architecture illustration, SpinalHDL, Python and cocotb.

GNSS receiver acquisition

GNSS receiver acquisition

FPGA acquisition work for the SEDS@UMD GPS receiver, across the team's gps-rtl, gps-model, and fpga-utils repositories. The repository defines a board-neutral acquisition core and two development targets: a Basys 3 with a MAX2769 board over UART, and an STLV7325 Kintex-7 over Ethernet.

Tech Stack

Tech Stack

SpinalHDL

SpinalHDL

Python

Python

cocotb

cocotb

Digital hardware

FeedGuard packet validator architecture illustration, SystemVerilog and cocotb.

FeedGuard

FeedGuard

A streaming validator that checks a UDP application payload's size and nested message boundaries before classifying its sequence range. Duplicates, overlaps, missing messages, and malformed packets each get an explicit outcome. A Python reference and a SystemVerilog implementation are tested independently and together.

Tech Stack

Tech Stack

SystemVerilog

SystemVerilog

Xilinx Vivado

Xilinx Vivado

cocotb

cocotb

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Get in touch

The best way to reach me is LinkedIn. My code is on GitHub.

© 2026 Jaiden Nguyen

© 2026 Jaiden Nguyen