Startup Founder and Author.
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Download CV (PDF)2010 - 2014
Graduated May 2014 · Minor in Mathematics · GPA: 3.65/4.0 overall, 3.61/4.0 in major · Blacksburg, VA
Activities: Computer Science Community Service (CS²), Web Development Group, ACM, and hackathons including MHacks, PennApps, HackNC, and HackVT.
Completed undergraduate-level computer science courses while enrolled in high school.
February 2023 - Present
Co-founded Good Journey Software to build a ground transportation operating system and global supplier network, with the goal of making rides bookable anywhere in the world.
February 2014 - Present
Turn complex mobile development concepts into practical tutorials and books that help developers build apps with iOS, Swift, and Flutter.
March 2017 - August 2019
Worked across iOS applications, backend microservices, identity and secure authentication services, Presto, and contactless payments and verification, while mentoring engineers and giving tech talks at Dev Days.
March 2016 - March 2017
Built iOS interfaces for Capital One Wallet and the flagship app, and created the entire UI for T&EZ from scratch to help corporate travelers manage mileage, expenses, and receipts.
July 2014 - March 2016
Developed enterprise mobile features for IBM Connections and IBM Verse across iOS and Android—including email management, contacts, calendars, and instant messaging—collaborating with product, design, and backend teams to improve responsiveness, reliability, and usability across multiple releases.
January 2014 - May 2014
Built front-end features for Mail Pilot 2 on iPhone and iPad, contributing to the app's mobile email experience.
August 2013 - December 2013
Helped students turn mobile development concepts into working iOS apps through project guidance, feedback, and hands-on programming assignments.
May 2013 - August 2013
Explored new iOS experiences for USA Today and built tools to capture and email console logs, helping developers investigate app issues.
Won first place for a liveness verification prototype that recorded randomly prompted facial gestures and detected multiple people in view to distinguish a live person from a static photo.
April 2014
Won first place for the most creative app incorporating multiple workout motivators. Built Project Ham with a team: an iOS workout companion with scheduling, alerts, and a virtual hamster whose fitness reflects the user's workout habits.
Co-inventor on three granted U.S. patents. View patents and related applications
Co-invented an NFC challenge-response method that authenticates a transaction card using a user's device.
Inventors: Kevin Osborn, Samuel Patrick Edwards, Vincent Vy Ngo
Co-invented a system that combines facial identity verification, unique authorization identifiers, location, and timestamps to authorize user operations.
Inventors: Lukiih Cuan, Dakyung Song, Vincent Vy Ngo
Kodeco · Book ·
Co-authored a textbook that teaches the theory, implementation, and real-world application of data structures and algorithms in Swift, suitable for university courses and independent study. The Swift edition later served as source material for Kotlin and Dart adaptations by other authors.
Kodeco · Book ·
A hands-on guide that takes developers from Flutter fundamentals to building apps for iOS and Android from a single codebase.
Kodeco · Tutorial ·
An introduction to building more accessible iOS apps with VoiceOver and the Accessibility Inspector, originally published in 2016 and substantially updated in 2020.
raywenderlich.com · Tutorial series ·
A four-part body of work covering adjacency-list graphs, depth-first search, Prim’s minimum-spanning-tree algorithm, and Strassen’s matrix-multiplication algorithm in Swift.
raywenderlich.com · Tutorial ·
A practical guide to serializing structured data with Protocol Buffers and integrating the generated models into an iOS app.
Ray Wenderlich · Book ·
Co-authored a practical guide that helps developers turn the new iOS 9 APIs into features for their own apps.
raywenderlich.com · Two-part tutorial ·
A two-part, step-by-step tutorial for building a book-opening interaction with page flips and a custom collection-view layout.
Ray Wenderlich · Book ·
Co-authored a guide to adopting iOS 8 APIs through working examples in Swift and Objective-C.
raywenderlich.com · Tutorial ·
A hands-on tutorial that shows developers how to turn text into structured data with NSScanner on macOS.
2018
Co-led a workshop on Swift collection protocols and the standard library, teaching advanced techniques for everyday development and technical interviews.
2016
Presented techniques for using Xcode Instruments to diagnose memory leaks, debug iOS apps, and improve performance.
August 2013 - June 2014
Contributed to Virtual Town Square, a project exploring online community interaction and civic engagement, with Dr. Andrea L. Kavanaugh and Dr. Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones at Virginia Tech.
November 2012 - May 2013
Explored iOS 6 features with Dr. Osman Balci, built example apps and tutorials, and supported students through teaching assistant workshops, coursework creation, grading, and office hours.
Swift · Objective-C · Java · C · Python · React.js · iOS development · Mobile application development · Web development · Object-oriented design · Xcode · GitHub · Product development · Technical leadership · Software deployment
Hackathons · iOS development · Mobile · Golf · Music · Teaching · Writing