Thi Bui

Howdy! If you’re here, you probably work at Riot Games.

[tbui0801 [at] gmail (dot) com] [github] [Riot ID: beanie#0319] [Mountain View, CA]


Professional Experience

Square | Hardware Systems Engineer
Oakland, CA | March 2025 - Present (1.5 years)
Creating metrics and test platforms for payment devices!
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SpaceX | Starlink Enterprise Engineer
Redmond, WA | Feb 2024 - Feb 2025 (1 year)
Making sure maritime enterprise customers are satisfied!
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SpaceX | Manufacturing and Test Engineer (Avionics)
Hawthorne, CA | June 2022 - Feb 2024 (2 years)
Manufacturing and testing Falcon 9 avionics boxes!
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LTA Research & Exploration | Mechanical Test Engineer
Mountain View, CA | Sep 2020 - June 2022 (2 years)
Design validation tests for the airship!
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Play Portfolio

Slay The Spire Demake
  • Game Boy Advance ROM made with the Butano engine
  • Slay the Spire clone I made to play on the plane
  • project blog
[AI-ASSISTED CODE]
Poke Spire title screen — Charmander, Pikachu and Squirtle in front of a tower at sunset
Valorant Side Quests
  • tfc_valbot
    • 2022 weekend project
    • tracker.gg scraper for Valorant stats
    • made for a slideshow to compare my friend’s stats
    [PRE-AI ARTISANAL CODE]
  • tarik_10man_ranks
    • 2023 weekend project
    • scraped Tarik’s Pro City 10-man leaderboard to map pros to the Ranked Distribution
    • see this reddit post for the results!
    [PRE-AI ARTISANAL CODE]
  • character playtest
    • trialed an unreleased agent in a 2022 playtest
    • the character’s gameplay fantasy was to “take and control space systematically”
    • (I think this agent became Gekko!)
  • Premier playoff champ (×2)
    • organized a Premier team for all but 2 Premier seasons!
  • VCT fan
    • travelled out of the country for the first time to go to Masters Tokyo 2023
    • used to live in LA, so would go to VCT events all the time — including Champs 2023!
A Pro City leaderboard table — player, percentile and the Valorant rank it maps to
MIT Pokémon League
  • Hosted competitive Pokémon tournaments in Boston!
[pokemon.mit.edu]
The MIT Pokémon League logo — a Poké Ball badge ringed by the club name
Competitive Queue
  • Valorant — peak Immortal 1 [tracker.gg]
  • Deadlock — peak Phantom [tracklock]
  • StarCraft 2 — 1v1 Diamond, 2v2 Masters
  • Pokémon TCG — Day 2s (Portland 2025) [limitless]
A Pokémon TCG playmat covered in sorted cards and sealed booster packs

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Cambridge, MA | 2020
B.S. | Mechanical Engineering
Concentration | Computer Science (Controls)
GPA | 4.1 / 5.0
The MIT logo

Fun Stuff

Weekend Triathlete
Running > Biking >>>>>>>>> Swimming
Recent Races:
  • Escape from Alcatraz 2026
  • Half Ironman Santa Cruz 2025
  • SF Marathon 2024
  • LA Marathon 2024
A runner in a triathlon suit on the run leg, with two cyclists coming the other way
Cats
Four Cats:
Four cats lined up eating from their own feeders