Kody A. Nguyen
Co-founder and CTO at EFFOMA
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.
Social Media/Professional Links
- 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
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9S23HOIAAAAJ
- Photography: https://effoma.com/photography
Awards
- Top 10 Finalists Redis Agentic AI Startup Arena Vietnam 2026
- Global Finalist - Claude Code Opus 4.6 Hackathon hosted by Anthropic & Cerebral Valley 2026
- 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
- Global Finalist - Meta Presence Platform Hackathon, Menlo Park, California 2023
- 2nd Place - Google + Deloitte Australia Hackathon 2022
- Champion - Dota 2 Southeast Asia Division, 25 January 2020 & 28 August 2021
- 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 IV & V, IU HCMC, Vietnam 2012–2013
- 1st Place - Water Rocket Challenge, IU HCMC, Vietnam 2012
- Honored at the District Informatics Olympiad, HCMC, Vietnam 2008
- High Distinction - Australian National Chemistry Quiz, Junior Division 2007
Media Presence / Press
- Guest speaker at JEMS: https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=122133455685173144&set=a.122098298097173144
- Guest Speaker at Apple AR Case Study Workshop - Blueprint of Uniqueness, hosted by VUV ISB University of Economics HCMC, AIESEC Vietnam and F.Studio by FPT Workshop 2026: https://www.facebook.com/fstudiobyfpt.com.vn/posts/pfbid0pq1RchyTLhnSMHjSer1az5F2HWsG54ZY6o3LDYNb3163qt95foM7L7HuoPS1sonql
- Guest Speaker at CTO Vietnam Network (2025): https://www.facebook.com/ctovietnam.network/posts/-meet-our-speaker-mr-kody-anh-nguy%E1%BB%85n-startup-showcase-expo-cto-summit-2025-x-vie/1258780832958389/
- 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
- Guest Speaker at 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
- 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://web.archive.org/web/20190821043553/https://miff.com.au/vr
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
Certificates & Awards
High Distinction — Australian National Chemistry Quiz, Junior Division 2007
1st Place Certificate — AngelHack hackhcmc Digital Empowerment 2024
3rd Place — AngelHack Grand Finals hackglobal 2024
Best LGBTQ Film — Tokyo Shorts Film Festival 2021 | The Veil
Winner Best Technology — Cinequest Film & VR Festival | Loverboy (2023)
Best LGBTQ Short — Austin International Art Festival 2021 | The Veil
NASA International Space Apps Challenge 2024 — Galactic Problem Solver
Databricks Accredited Generative AI Fundamentals
Python: Data Analysis Certificate — LinkedIn Learning
Udemy — Build Your Mixed Reality Game & Publish it on Meta's App Lab
Udemy — Multiplayer Virtual Reality (VR) Development With Unity
Film Festivals Awards | The Veil
Champion — Dota 2 Southeast Asia Division, 25 January 2020 & 28 August 2021
Events & Recognition
1st Prize — ETH Vietnam BASE Bounty Winner 2025
1st Prize AI Hackathon CodeX COTI SUCI 2025
CTO Vietnam 2025 — Viet Global Founders
3rd Place — AngelHack Grand Finals hackglobal 2024, Singapore
1st Prize Angelhack hackhcmc Digital Empowerment 2024
2nd Prize - Google + Deloitte Hackathon, Melbourne, Australia
SpaceX, Texas 2024
SpaceX Starbase, Boca Chica, Texas 2024
Consensus + Easy-A Hackathon 2024
Angelhack at Grab HQ, Jakarta, Indonesia 2024
Meta Presence Platform Hackathon Presentations, Menlo Park 2023
Meta HQ (Formerly Facebook) — Presence Platform Hackathon 2023
Meta Spark AR Summit, Menlo Park, June 2023
Google HQ, Mountain View, California 2023
Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California 2024
GovHack Melbourne, Australia
Virtual Production Stype Red Spy 3 + Blackmagic URSA Mini 12K
NASA Canberra Deep Space Communication Centre, Australia 2019
RMIT VR Hackathon, Melbourne, Australia 2019
Guest Speaker — Lạc Hồng University, Computer Science Department, 2018
Melbourne White Night Metro VR Train Deployment 2018, Australia
Samsung Gear VR Fleet, Melbourne, Australia 2017
Linux Users Victoria (LUV) - Tux Mascot
YMCA Youth Parliament Victoria, Melbourne, Australia 2016
Swinburne Tikkun Olam Makers (TOM) Makeathon 2016, Melbourne, Australia
2nd Prize — Telstra Hackathon 2016, Melbourne, Australia
UWE Motorsports 2014, Bristol, UK
VR Development with Oculus DK1 and PSMove 2014
UWE Motorsports Jaguar Land Rover Factory Trip
Startup Weekend Ho Chi Minh City 2012
Monkeypaw Productions HQ in Hollywood, Los Angeles & Jordan Peele's book
Amazon HQ, The Spheres — Puget Sound Campus, Seattle 2024
Marty Cagan Meetup at Amazon Web Services (AWS) Vietnam HQ HCMC with ProductTank