Overview
Experienced and impactful engineering leader, blogger and speaker. I am motivated and enthusiastic by new challenges in business, product & technology. My latest adventure is in Payment industry to make Vietnam a cashless country with ZaloPay.
Here are quick things about me & my work:
1. Initially I worked in the Security industry. I published various researches. The very first Google Chrome's vulnerability is reported by me.
2. Later I also had a chance to lead a team to build https://reputa.vn/, a social listening product. It was a great time to work with the brightest minds in Distributed Systems & Machine Learning. I founded Vietnam Data Scientists, a Facebook community with 20k+ members as in 2022.
3. I've helped ZaloPay to create a scalable ledger. In the near future, we aim for 30k tps. It's really a big challenge.
4. I love open engineering culture. I've contributed to various open-source projects, e.g.: Apache Avro, Redis, Quarkus. At ZaloPay, I've initiated & led programs for Open Source (https://github.com/zalopay-oss) and Engineering Blog (https://engineering.zalopay.vn/). Sharing is caring. The programs are ways to nurture & attract more talents.
5. I love growing people. I designed courses & trained freshers.
6. I'm shifting my mindset to be product-oriented. Marty Cagan is my favorite product guru. I'm interested in using Wardley Mapping in developing strategies.
Education
Experiences
Led Accounting domain to achieve 30k tps
Focusing on building distributed systems, I've designed and provided solutions for Payment Core services in ZaloPay
Mastermind behind ZaloPay Edu, a comprehensive training program for engineering freshers
I created public channels to make ZaloPay open, including: open source repositories on GitHub, engineering blog on Medium
Worked to improve CDN infrastructure
Led a team to build a massive-scale social listening product using open source components including: crawlers (written in Java & Scala), messaging (using ActiveMQ & Protobuf), analytics (using Spark, Python Scikit-learn) and storage (with HBase, Redis, ElasticSearch, MySQL)
Optimized performance for Python microservice using ZeroMQ & Greenlet (Apache Thrift does NOT suit my needs)
Researched on Statistics, NLP (Natural language processing). I worked under the mentorship of several PhDs. They helped me efficiently learn & improve my knowledge on AI.
Conducted various researches on Big Data technologies (Hadoop stack), Machine Learning & Text Mining algorithms such as SVM, Neural Network, Ensemble method, TF-IDF … for detecting trends, related topics...
Led a project of building a large-scale crawler based on Nutch for collecting information from web and social networks
Used ANTLR to develop a language ,which is scriptable and based on context free grammar, to generate data for fuzzing.
Involved in many phases to design a product such as UI/UX, High-performance backends... I've got in-depth knowledge of systems and assisted technologies. Additionally, I'm very interested in designing business model for products.
Via forensics and investigation, I helped many people secure their computing systems & identities
Designed core content, prepared syllabus for intern students
Gave lectures on Network programming & Security
Researched extensively on Application Security, Reverse Engineering, Windows kernel system...
Discovered several critical vulnerabilities in popular applications. The very first vulnerability of Google Chrome was submitted by me
Presented my paper entitled "Unicode shellcode and improvements" at Bellua Cyber Security conference (2008). In the paper I demonstrated a novel idea on optimizing size of Unicode shellcodes.
Certificates
Hobbies
Here are several things I do in my leisure time
- Reading books about technologies & entrepreneurship.
- Self-studying several topics I like such as Distributed System, Machine Learning, Blockchain ...
- Contributing to various open source projects like: Redis, Apache Avro, Dapr, MQTT.js, Gensim, HapiJS
- Managing several technology communities I founded such as "Vietnam Data Scientists" (since 2013), "Vietnam Blockchain Experts" (since 2016)
- Blogging
- Cooking
- Jogging
- Photographing
References
My digital traces in the online world
- ComputerWorld: Google issues first patches for Chrome
- F-Secure: Microchip MPLAB IDE Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
- Article: Building a Search Text Box Control with WPF
- Redis contributor
- Apache Avro contributor
- MQTT.js contributor
- Gensim contributor
- Introduction to Zookeeper (slideshare)
- Admin of Vietnam Data Scientists community
- Admin of Vietnam Blockchain Experts community
- ZaloPay Edu: Khởi nguồn (vietnamese)
- ZaloPay Open Source
- ZaloPay Engineering Blog