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Chandler Nguyen

About

Chandler Nguyen

Chandler Nguyen.

Ad exec and AI builder — not one then the other. I still run global media operations at a major agency, and I ship AI products alongside the day job. Self-taught to code at 40. Still learning, still shipping.

The Journey

The AI build journey, milestone by milestone

  1. First Chatbot Built

    Built my first chatbot with ChatGPT as my guide. Zero coding knowledge, just following instructions. Used TextEdit on Mac to write code!

  2. 7 Andrew Ng Courses Done

    Completed 7 Andrew Ng courses: ML Specialization, ChatGPT Prompt Engineering, and more.

  3. Still Learning, Still Stuck

    Took React, Django, Full Stack courses. Made progress but couldn't get streaming to work.

  4. DIALØGUE v1 Launch

    Launched AI podcast generator after ~6 months of building. 10+ Cloud Run microservices, real users.

  5. STRAŦUM Launch

    Launched 9-agent marketing platform in 75 days. 1,000+ commits, 200k lines of code.

  6. Blog Backend Rebuilt in 4 Days

    Rebuilt entire blog backend with Supabase, pgvector embeddings, and Ask Sydney RAG chat using Claude Code.

  7. AI-Native Media Operations Course Launched

    Built and launched a 7-module course solo — ~3 hours of video, 16 templates — using the same AI operating model it teaches. The product I needed after Andrew Ng's courses.

  8. Prova Launched

    Shipped Prova, an AI practice-and-review layer for the operating model the course teaches. The hard part was not the code — it was the contracts around progression, billing, auth, and state.

Before the code

Credentials & Recognition

Books written, awards judged, and recognitions earned along the way.

Curious where to start?

Pick a path and start building — or ask Sydney anything

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