Dave Nguyen

FundAmerica is a technology company for raising capital to empower crowdfunding portals. After signing up and creating an offering, an issuer would simply need to add two lines of code to allow investors to an easy-to-use investment process form! More advanced customers had the ability to hook into the JSON RESTful APIs. You could manage all the services required to support an offering from open to close—including accreditations, broker-dealers, and compliance—within the site's dashboard.

A single-player version of the popular trick-taking game. I wrote this in a week to showcase what's possible with GenServers. The technologies I used include Elixir, Phoenix LiveView, and Tailwind CSS for the UI.

An Elixir library for dealing with the Backblaze B2 (file storage) API. Users can use the provided client to easily manage their credentials and bucket information and decide if they want to make synchronous or asynchronous calls. If more fine-tuning is required, they can also use this to call the endpoints directly using this library. It also includes a module to help with Ecto schema integrations, allowing the user full control on what metadata to save in the database and what information to grab when queried.

A content management system for independent film festivals to track their film submissions. The system allowed filmmakers to submit their films online, which could then be tracked by the staff. Other users, known as "screeners", would be able to rate the films. This gave the staff everything they needed to manage the films through the submission process and make an informed decision on which submissions are accepted into the film festival.

I built this using Ruby on Rails.

The UCI Computer Store would hold quarterly events, such as the 24-hour Mad Film Dash, a competition where students make a film within 24 hours. For each event, a new website was launched, but they all would have similar features, such as registration, media management (uploading video and audio files), a countdown to the event start, email blasts, and judging with audience voting.

The sites could quickly be created using the Ruby on Rails framework.