I work across product engineering, solution architecture, and startup building. Since graduating with a B.S. in Software Engineering in 2013, I've worked on e-commerce, fintech, compliance, trading platforms, and developer tooling.
I later completed an M.S. in Computer Science focused on Artificial Intelligence. These days I'm most interested in cloud native systems, microservices/serverless, and applied AI/ML.
Some founder roles below overlapped with full-time positions while I was building products and client systems.
Aug 2021 to Jan 2025: Team Lead at Setel
Led a team of 10 mobile, full-stack, and QA automation engineers to build eKYC, fraud detection, and compliance systems for the Setel ecosystem using React, Node.js, Kubernetes, and AWS.
Launched eKYC for Setel Wallet and helped keep Setel products aligned with PDPA and GDPR requirements.
Oct 2020 to Aug 2021: Solutions Architect at FPT Software
Led a 7-member team to build a web-based system for a fintech enterprise in Europe. Worked on several POCs for prospective clients in the US and Canada using React, Node.js, Kubernetes, serverless, and AWS.
Served as architect on POC projects that helped the business unit secure US contracts.
Nov 2018 to Oct 2020: Co-founder & CTO at a startup.
Built the core of a scalable web-based trading platform using React, Node.js, Kafka, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, and Kubernetes.
Built the product and platform architecture, but the project was shut down before launch.
Mar 2018 to Nov 2018: Tech Lead at Leflair Vietnam
Promoted after the CTO left. Built a team of 10 to develop the new version of the leflair.vn website using Next.js, and migrated the backend from a monolith to microservices using Node.js, MongoDB, Kubernetes, and Google Cloud.
The platform served 500k customers and millions of monthly visits with 99.99% uptime.
Nov 2016 to Mar 2018: Full Stack Developer at Leflair Vietnam
Built the e-commerce website leflair.vn from scratch using the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express, React, and Node.js).
The site went live after three months and significantly improved performance over the previous AngularJS version.
2015 to 2018: Founder & CTO at Gorillab
Led a four-person freelance team to build web and mobile apps for clients in Vietnam, Singapore, and the US using the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express, React, and Node.js).
One product, an order management system for a US client, ran reliably in production for years.
2015 to 2017: Co-founder & CTO at Fugu Inc.
Built the point-of-sale-as-a-service product independently for local coffee shops and restaurants using the MEAN stack (MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, and Node.js).
The service was used by three Japanese restaurants in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi for two years.
2013 to 2015: PHP Developer Lead at Softfoundry
Led a small team to build products including VMeet, a video portal, e-commerce systems, and e-learning platforms.
VMeet was used by the governments of Thailand, Vietnam, and other SEA countries.