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.
From Jun 2025
To Present
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.
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. From Feb 2025
To May 2025
4 mos NEXON DEV VINA
Mid-level Backend Developer Joined technical interviews for fresher and junior roles.
Gave an internal talk on distributed systems.
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. 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. From Apr 2023
To Jan 2025
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.
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. 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. From Sep 2022
To Mar 2023
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.
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. From May 2022
To Aug 2022
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