Patrick Nguyen
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NowEngineer & Product Owner, Clear.ai

I build AI software that does real work in freight and customs.

I'm Patrick, an early engineer and technical product owner at Clear.ai in Sydney. I ship full-stack logistics products and the AI agents inside them. Lately: TariffChat™, used by 400+ customs brokers at 100+ organisations across APAC.

Résumé
Portrait of Patrick NguyenCS (Advanced) with distinction, Western Sydney University. Writing code since 2017, starting with Pascal in Vietnam.
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Selected work

Things I've built, at work and on weekends

Experience

From retail floors to an AI-native logistics startup

  1. Nov 2025 – PresentSydney · On-site

    Software Engineer & Technical Product Owner · Clear.ai

    • Technical product owner for my team: turn customer problems into scoped work, set priorities and see features through to release.
    • Build across the back end, front end and full stack of the main Clear.ai app (app.clear.ai), with a focus on the freight forwarding platform.
    • Built shipment tracking and third-party integrations, including 1-Stop and Australian Border Force (ABF) connections.
    • Work on tariff classification services and TariffChat™, an AI assistant used by 400+ customs brokers at 100+ organisations across APAC, with 35,000+ classifications.
    • Set up and manage the AWS infrastructure for internal classification and tariff data platforms.
    • Mentor junior engineers and interns.
    Technical product ownershipFull-stackAI agentsIntegrationsAWSMentoring
  2. May 2025 – Oct 2025Sydney · On-site

    Junior Software Engineer · Clear.ai

    • Engineered software and AI solutions for customs brokerage.
    Generative AILLMsFull-stack
  3. Feb 2025 – May 2025Queensland · Remote contract

    Junior Full-stack Developer · QRisk

    • Maintained and extended cyber-risk quantification software based on Open FAIR.
    Next.jsFastAPIPrismaAWS
  4. Oct 2024 – Feb 2025North Sydney · Hybrid

    Full-stack Developer Intern · Tata Consultancy Services × Creators Club

    • Co-founded NaviFi, an AI investment research and community platform, built with TCS for their Shark Tank competition.
    • Mentored club members and wrote the SkillPies GitHub course.
    Agentic RAGPrismaPitching
  5. Jul 2024 – Dec 2024School of Medicine · Research

    Software Engineer, GPT for Health · Western Sydney University

    • Built an LLM system that simulates family scenarios for medical students, and studied how students respond to it.
    Next.jsTypeScriptSQLiteAWS
  6. Mar 2024 – Nov 2024Kingswood · Hybrid

    Full-stack Developer Intern · Western Sydney University

    • Replaced a file-based staff roster with a web app handling preferences, leave, holidays and calendar export.
    ReactNode.jsMongoDB
  7. 2020 – 2024

    Before software, I sold fragrance at Myer and David Jones and worked at Swarovski while studying, and ran statistics study sessions at WSU. Those jobs taught me to listen to the person in front of me first.

Stack

Tools I reach for

AI & LLMs
AI SDKLangGraphRAGDocument extractionClaudeGeminiOpenAI
Backend
PythonDjangoFastAPINode.jsConvexHonoBunRust
Frontend
TypeScriptReactNext.jsTanStackTailwind CSSshadcn/uiExpo
Data & infra
PostgreSQLRedisPrismaDrizzleAWSDockerVercelGitHub Actions
Contact

Building something in logistics or AI? Let's talk.

Send a note here or email me directly. I'm also happy to chat with students and new grads breaking into software.