He began volunteering as a photographer at the Center for Inquiry in Portland in 2013. In the mid-2010s, Ngo came out as gay while visiting relatives in rural Vietnam. After graduation, he experienced a period of unemployment and worked as a photographer at a used car dealership. He graduated from UCLA in 2009 with a graphic design degree.
While attending the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Ngo volunteered with AmeriCorps. In 2019, Ngo said that his earlier social media activity "represented my simplistic views at the time" and that his comments no longer represented his beliefs. He subsequently became an atheist and was strongly against organized religion, which was reflected in his social media activity in the form of what Ngo later described as "inflammatory language", with Reddit comments such as " Islam needs to be neutered like Christianity". After a period of time as an evangelical Christian, he became disillusioned and took an interest in skepticism. Raised in a Buddhist family, Ngo converted to Christianity in high school. His parents first met amid a six-month stay at a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees camp near Tanjungpinang, Indonesia, prior to their arrival in the United States in 1979. His father had been a police officer in a small coastal town in Vietnam.
His mother came from an educated middle-class family that ran a jewelry business. His parents fled Vietnam in 1978 as Vietnamese boat people after they had been forced into labor and re-education camps by the communist government. Ngo was born and raised in Portland, Oregon.
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