Lam Nguyen

Software Engineer & Entrepreneur · New York

Co-founder of ANS, where I rebuilt the storefront from scratch on Hydrogen and the Shopify API instead of a pre-built theme, and lead its web and mobile development. Also a machine learning researcher at NYIT's LAMP Lab working on continuous authentication.

Experience

2025

Co-founder

ANSangelinanailsupply.com

2025 - PRESENT · New York

An ecommerce store for nail and beauty supply. I own the whole online build — the web storefront today, with a mobile app in progress.

Architected and led the migration of a large-scale Shopify storefront to a headless commerce architecture using Shopify Hydrogen, React, GraphQL, Storefront API, and Oxygen, improving storefront scalability, maintainability, and overall customer experience.
Engineered performance-focused storefront components and optimized server-side rendering (SSR), data fetching, caching, responsive rendering, and asset delivery, reaching <1.5-second Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) and a 50–70% improvement in page-load performance over the legacy storefront.
Redesigned critical e-commerce journeys — including product discovery, collection navigation, product detail pages, cart interactions, wishlist, merchandising, and responsive mobile UX — cutting bounce rate from 90.1% to 70–80%, lifting conversion rate 20–50%, and add-to-cart rate 18–52%.
Developed conversion and retention features including product recommendations, bundles, wishlist functionality, and Seguno email integration, raising average session duration 50–110%, returning customer rate 10–27%, and AOV 5–20%, from $71.30 to $75–$85.

2024

Machine Learning Researcher

NYIT's LAMP Lab

JANUARY 2024 - PRESENT · New York City, New York

Continuous authentication and behavioral biometrics — identifying people by how they type, move, and hold a device.

Building authentication systems for mobile devices and telerobotics using SVM, Scaled Manhattan Distance, Random Forest, K-Nearest Neighbors, and Gaussian Mixture Models.
Running experiments on accelerometer, gyroscope, and 3D motion capture data, developing the feature extraction that separates one person's movement from another's.

Published · Co-author · 2026

Keystroke-Aligned Body Motion Patterns for Short-Burst Continuous Smartphone Authentication: A Proof-of-Concept Study Using Motion Capture

IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science · doi:10.1109/TBIOM.2026.3674400

Published · Research Assistant · 2024

Posture and Body Movement Effects on Behavioral Biometrics for Continuous Smartphone Authentication

IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science · vol. 10, pp. 1–1

What I work in

Commerce

Headless Shopify storefronts on Hydrogen, React, GraphQL, the Storefront API, and Oxygen — rather than customising a pre-built Liquid theme. Currently extending the same foundation to mobile.

Machine Learning

Strong grasp of ML technologies including Deep Learning and Neural Networks. My research centers on continuous user authentication using behavioral biometrics with models like SVM, Random Forest, KNN, GMM, CNN, RNN, and Manhattan Scaled Distance.

Front-End

Proficient in JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, and HTML/CSS. Experienced with React, Redux, MobX, and UI libraries like Material UI, Bootstrap, and Tailwind CSS.

Back-End

Skilled in NodeJS, ExpressJS, and Rails for backend architecture and routing. Experienced with ORMs like Mongoose and Active Record, using MongoDB and PostgreSQL for database management.

Testing

Minimizing unexpected errors and maintaining more than 85% test coverage by using Jest and React Testing Library in TDD.

Version Control

Solid understanding of Git to track source control and branches, handling push, pull, and stash commits while keeping the code up to date without merge conflicts.

Environment & Tools

Experienced with Agile, Jira, GitLab, and GitHub. Collaborate with DevOps teams on CI/CD pipelines, with hands-on experience in Docker and AWS Cloud.

Education

2021

Software Engineering Certificate Program

Flatiron School

DECEMBER 2021 - APRIL 2022 · Garden City, New York

Built hands-on full stack experience with React, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, and Ruby on Rails.

2020

MS in Business Analytics

Adelphi University

JANUARY 2020 - DECEMBER 2020 · Garden City, New York

CeDiD: 21TJ – IQ05 – HONG
Honors: summa cum laude (GPA: 3.59)

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