Experience

Locofy.ai

• Singapore
• Internet Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• VP of Engineering

  • Jul 2023 - Present

  Singapore, Singapore



Interviewer.AI

• Singapore
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Technical Advisor

  • Mar 2023 - Present

  Singapore, Singapore



TEKO Việt Nam

• Vietnam
• Information Technology & Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• CTO

  • Jan 2019 - Jul 2023

  Hanoi As a leader at Teko, I managed a team of 300+ engineers and oversaw the development of SaaS products offering enterprise-level Omni-Channel Retail and E-commerce Solutions. My focus was on achieving technical excellence, optimizing efficiency, enhancing developer experience, and fostering a strong engineering culture. Through my leadership, I successfully delivered critical customer projects, created a strong technical foundation while also mentoring and developing a new… Show more As a leader at Teko, I managed a team of 300+ engineers and oversaw the development of SaaS products offering enterprise-level Omni-Channel Retail and E-commerce Solutions. My focus was on achieving technical excellence, optimizing efficiency, enhancing developer experience, and fostering a strong engineering culture. Through my leadership, I successfully delivered critical customer projects, created a strong technical foundation while also mentoring and developing a new generation of strong leaders among our middle management team. Show less



Wego.com

• Singapore
• Travel Arrangements
• 100 - 200 Employee

• CTO

  • Sep 2016 - Jan 2019

  Singapore Built a talented engineering team at Wego - a travel metasearch platform. As CTO, I was leading the company’s innovation, technology, and building a great product for travellers. Under my leadership, we completely revamped our products and gained much better performance, scalability, and efficiency. As result of the big product revamping, we got featured, showcased many times at conferences around the world and loved by millions of customers.

• Vice President Of Engineering

  • Jul 2015 - Sep 2016

  Singapore Hiring, coaching, building engineering team and continue to make Wego more awesome.

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Nov 2010 - Jun 2015

  singapore Wego's travel product is being used by millions of users and we never stop thinking of ways to make it simple but yet more awesome, effectively for travellers. I built high performance hotels search backend system written in Java and running across many servers to retrieve real-time prices from third party APIs. Services are deployed to Apache Tomcat and using Elasticsearch as a search engine. Designed and developed our own Elasticsearch plugins which provides native scripts… Show more Wego's travel product is being used by millions of users and we never stop thinking of ways to make it simple but yet more awesome, effectively for travellers. I built high performance hotels search backend system written in Java and running across many servers to retrieve real-time prices from third party APIs. Services are deployed to Apache Tomcat and using Elasticsearch as a search engine. Designed and developed our own Elasticsearch plugins which provides native scripts, customised score algorithms allowing us to have more relevant search results. Built up data platform, in charge of keeping analytics platform up and running. Apache Kafka as a message broker, BigQuery and AWS S3 data storage and mainly use Apache Spark for data processing. Set up infrastructure using Chef and brought up devops-culture to the team, dockerize our infrastructure using Apache Mesos/Marathon/Chronos. Built web front-end using Ruby on Rails, Javascript. From time to time, I improve system's maintainability, availability and scalability through tools and best practices.



VNDIRECT

• Vietnam
• Financial Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Developer

  • Mar 2009 - Oct 2010

  Hanoi Vndirect is one of the leading securities company in Vietnam. I was part of the team to build and maintain our in-house online trading system where investors can buy/sell stocks, manage their portfolio. This system also provides real-time stock price and market information. I worked as a full-stack engineer and contributed to both backend (Java/JSP) and front-end (Html/Javascript).



Aptech

• India
• Education Management
• 700 & Above Employee

• Faculty Member

  • Apr 2009 - Mar 2010

  Hanoi Joined as a part-time teacher, responsible for teaching and assisting students in several java-based modules including Java webservice, XML, JEE modules, EJB, JSP and Java fundamental contained OOP in general, multi-­threading and concurrency programming.



Vietnam Securities Software Development (VSSD)

• Lead Developer

  • Sep 2007 - Mar 2009

  Hanoi VSSS is a Fintech startup to provide software services for the Vietnam stock market. I worked on several java-based securities front-end systems including online trading, realtime order routine and order processing. I also worked with stakeholders, interacted with customers to understand the requirements then design, prototype the product. There was a project that I led a small team of 4 engineers including me to build a web-based online trading front-end product from scratch. We… Show more VSSS is a Fintech startup to provide software services for the Vietnam stock market. I worked on several java-based securities front-end systems including online trading, realtime order routine and order processing. I also worked with stakeholders, interacted with customers to understand the requirements then design, prototype the product. There was a project that I led a small team of 4 engineers including me to build a web-based online trading front-end product from scratch. We managed to design, code and deploy to production for the first client within 2-months. After that, this product was deployed to 6 others securities companies which covered around 20% online stock trading volume in Vietnam during that time. Show less



CICAT Co. Ltd

• Team Leader

  • Jul 2006 - Jul 2007

  Hanoi Cicat was one of the IBM's partners in Vietnam. I led a team to work on several IBM products such as Websphere Application server, Websphere MQ and especially focused on IBM E-Commerce (B2B, B2C, C2C or Supply Chains business models).



VietSoftware International Career

• Vietnam
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Developer

  • Jul 2005 - Jun 2006

  Hanoi I built web applications using J2EE platform and heavily JavaScript for client side. I first joined the company as an intern while studying my last year at university. The first project when I joined which was to build a timesheet management system with few other full time engineers. After 3 weeks, I took the lead and completed this project within 1 and half month. The Timesheet management system then was deployed and being used widely in the company. After finishing this project, I was the… Show more I built web applications using J2EE platform and heavily JavaScript for client side. I first joined the company as an intern while studying my last year at university. The first project when I joined which was to build a timesheet management system with few other full time engineers. After 3 weeks, I took the lead and completed this project within 1 and half month. The Timesheet management system then was deployed and being used widely in the company. After finishing this project, I was the only student exceptionally to be accepted for full time employee during that time. Show less