The path so far

Work, in context.

Roles form the main chronology; the projects inside them show where the time went and what changed along the way.

  1. From
    ToPresent
    1 yr 2 mos

    GBG Group Services

    Senior Backend Developer

    Build ticketing services for a B2B2C marketplace, from affiliate imports and seller inventory to distribution and analytics.

    4 mos

    FootballTicketNet

    • Backend developer

    A football ticket marketplace.

    • Established safe database transaction and raw SQL patterns.
    • Refactored and tuned SQL queries with targeted index hints.
    • Reduced a stream processing workload from 1 GB to 200 MB using AsyncGenerator.
    Present10 mos

    Gigsberg

    • Backend developer

    An international event ticket marketplace.

    • Owned the technical and partner communication for a new ticket affiliate integration.
    • Troubleshot and hotfixed production services with AWS CloudWatch.
    • Integrated MaxMind minFraud and introduced stale-while-revalidate caching.
  2. From
    To
    4 mos

    NEXON DEV VINA

    Mid-level Backend Developer

    Joined technical interviews for fresher and junior roles.

    Gave an internal talk on distributed systems.

    1 yr

    Project CC

    • Developer
    • DevOps
    • SRE
    • Lead

    An observability-focused, event-driven web crawling platform.

    • Provisioned AWS infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible, then bootstrapped self-managed K3s with Rancher and Helm.
    • Migrated to EKS with cluster autoscaling and RabbitMQ-driven external metrics.
    • Correlated logs, traces, and metrics with OpenTelemetry, Loki, Tempo, and Prometheus.
    4 mos

    Project AF

    • Backend developer
    • Lead

    A graphic resource management system built with overseas teams.

    • Set up a backend monorepo around Clean Architecture.
    • Reviewed backend work and collaborated on schema design and migrations.
    • Analyzed frontend issues and coordinated backend tasks.
  3. From
    To
    1 yr 10 mos

    NEXON DEV VINA

    Junior Backend Developer

    Developed web applications and internal tools for a Korean game company while collaborating in English with overseas managers and developers.

    1 yr 7 mos

    Project BC

    • Developer
    • DBA
    • SRE

    A large-scale distributed crawling system with 800 worker instances.

    • Reduced deployment cost by 60% with fault-tolerant workloads on AWS ECS.
    • Autoscaled workers using custom AWS CloudWatch metrics.
    • Improved throughput and memory use with streaming and micro-batching.
    6 mos

    Project INF

    • Backend developer

    An NLP pipeline for Excel input with analytical charts and graphs.

    • Implemented the NLP data processing pipeline.
    • Integrated proprietary OAuth 2.0 authorization code SSO.
    • Created a containerized local workflow with Docker Compose.
  4. From
    To
    7 mos

    HCMC Center for Disease Control

    Full Stack Developer

    Worked directly with a laboratory team to turn their sample-testing workflow into a resilient internal platform.

    7 mos

    DIUT laboratory platform

    • Solo full-stack developer

    A multi-tenant laboratory workflow system delivered as a solo full-stack engagement.

    • Translated detailed requirements directly with the client.
    • Deployed a secure, highly available platform onto four empty Ubuntu VMs.
    • Evolved the architecture from single-host PM2 to Docker, then a three-node Kubernetes cluster with Contour Ingress, and finally four nodes with Envoy Gateway.
  5. From
    To
    4 mos

    Younet Media

    Web Intern

    Maintained a social-media analytics product and migrated an internal frontend tool from Vue to a React single-page application.

Foundations

Education & language

VNU-HCM International University
Software Engineering, 83.8/100
Sep 2018 — Mar 2023

TOEIC 990/990
IIG Vietnam, Jan 2023

IELTS 7.5/9.0
IDP Education Ltd, Jul 2017