Software Engineer · React / Next.js / Node.js · Ho Chi Minh City
Frontend at the core, full-stack in practice.
I build SaaS and multi-tenant platforms for European clients in React, Next.js and TypeScript, and run two products of my own that real people use.
- 4+ yrsat Gradion, building for European clients
- 4 monthsas the sole developer of a live client product
- 46releases in under six weeks, as one of two primary engineers
- 2own products in real use, by real users and a real shop
What I've worked on since 2022
Own product · Jun 2026 – Present
Chili by TLA
Solo full-stack developer · product, code and operations
Personal finance app, in beta with 10 users: wallets, budgets, credit-card statements, installments and loans, with an AI assistant that turns a sentence or a screenshot into a transaction.
- 3months from empty repository to production
- 31releases in the first three weeks
- ~3,300automated tests, unit and end-to-end
- Took the product from an empty repository to production in about three months, then shipped 31 releases in its first three weeks, working from a written roadmap of small end-to-end slices.
- Designed it around one rule: anything that changes money goes through the service layer. The web app, the AI assistant and scheduled jobs are all just callers, so none of them can skip a business rule or reach another user's data.
- Made the AI assistant safe to trust with money: it can only call the app's own services, never chooses whose account it acts on, runs each action once even when retried, and models are compared on a 76-case test set rather than by feel.
React 19Express 5Prisma 7PostgreSQLTanStack QueryReact Router 7Zod
Four years of shipping frontends built for the people who maintain them.
I spent four years at Gradion (formerly NFQ Asia) building SaaS and multi-tenant platforms for European clients. My focus is frontend architecture, testing and security: the parts that decide whether a product is still pleasant to change in year three.
Over the last year the work has become full-stack: a Next.js backend-for-frontend and a Nitro and Prisma platform for clients at Gradion, and Express, Prisma and PostgreSQL on the products I design, build and run solo.
- Education
- B.Eng. in Information TechnologyCan Tho University
- Languages
- VietnameseNative
- EnglishProfessional working
- OwnershipGrew from one of five developers on a client console to the one trusted to run the live product alone.
- QualityAudited a client app's create, edit and delete flows, found three critical bugs and wrote the team's standard; set up a lint and format toolchain still in use three years on.
- ProductMoved a real food shop off spreadsheets in six weeks, and run a finance app whose AI assistant uses a model I host myself.
What I work with
- Core
- React 19Next.js 15/16 (App Router)TypeScriptJavaScript (ES6+)
- State & Data
- Redux ToolkitZustandTanStack QueryReact Hook FormZod
- UI & Styling
- Tailwind CSSshadcn/uiRadix UISCSS
- Testing
PlaywrightJestCypress- Backend & Tools
- Node.jsPrismaPostgreSQLDockerGit
- Practices
- ScrumAgileGit FlowCode ReviewAdaptabilitySelf-Direction