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$ ssh gearment-inc · United States

A leading US-based print-on-demand and fulfillment company, processing millions of orders annually for e-commerce businesses worldwide.

Technical Manager

Jan 2026 — Present

  • Leading the entire technology department of 20+ members including Backend, Frontend, Fullstack, QA, DevOps, Data, and Product teams
  • Maintaining hands-on involvement in coding and architecture decisions alongside the team, ensuring technical depth in leadership
  • Defining technical strategy and roadmap aligned with business objectives, balancing innovation with operational stability
  • Researching and applying LLM-powered AI tools (Copilot, Claude Code, custom agents) to boost developer productivity and streamline engineering workflows
  • Establishing engineering processes, OKRs, and performance metrics to scale team effectiveness across all tech functions
  • Driving hiring, mentorship, and career development programs to build a high-performing engineering organization
AWS (CloudFront, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch) Go gRPC/Protobuf REST API Kubernetes Helm Docker GitLab CI/CD PostgreSQL Redis WebSocket SendGrid Elasticsearch Prometheus OpenTelemetry Grafana

Key Projects

Product-Engineering-QC Collaboration Framework — Cross-functional collaboration framework aligning Product, Engineering, and QC teams

Technical Lead

Oct 2023 — Dec 2025

  • Spearheaded the architectural transformation from legacy PHP monolith to scalable Go microservices, reducing system latency by 60%
  • Led a cross-functional team of 8 engineers, establishing coding standards and review processes that improved code quality metrics by 40%
  • Architected event-driven systems handling 10K+ orders/day with 99.9% uptime SLA
  • Drove DevOps culture adoption with comprehensive observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)

Key Projects

Cloud Infrastructure Platform — Enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure on AWS with multi-region deployment and disaster recovery
Software Development Framework — Standardized development framework and tooling across all engineering teams
POD-Fulfillment Seller Dashboard — Comprehensive seller portal for print-on-demand merchants to manage orders, products, and fulfillment workflows
Gearment Website — Public-facing marketing website and customer onboarding platform
Warehouse Management System (WMS) — End-to-end warehouse operations platform managing inventory, picking, packing, and shipping workflows
Internal Operation Dashboard — Centralized admin platform for customer support, order management, and business operations
$ ssh geniebook · Ho Chi Minh City

Singapore's leading AI-powered EdTech platform, serving 300K+ students across Southeast Asia with personalized learning experiences.

Technical Lead

Aug 2022 — Sep 2023

  • Led the modernization initiative to decompose PHP monolith into Go microservices, achieving 3x improvement in API response times
  • Designed and implemented core platform services (IAM, Chat, File Management) supporting 2K+ concurrent users
  • Established engineering best practices including automated testing pipelines, reducing production incidents by 50%
  • Mentored junior engineers and conducted technical interviews for team expansion
GCP (Cloud Pub/Sub, Logging, Tracing, Storage) Go gRPC/Protobuf REST API Kubernetes Helm Docker GitLab CI/CD PostgreSQL Redis WebSocket Elasticsearch Prometheus OpenTelemetry Grafana

Key Projects

GenieAsk — Real-time communication platform enabling students to interact with tutors for instant academic support
GenieSmart — AI-powered learning platform for daily practice tests and personalized study sessions
$ ssh be-group-jsc · Ho Chi Minh City

Vietnam's leading super-app ecosystem with 25M+ users, offering ride-hailing, delivery, fintech (Cake Digital Bank), and lifestyle services.

Software Engineer Lead

May 2022 — Aug 2022

  • Led Platform team of 6 engineers, delivering internal PaaS/SaaS products that accelerated feature development across business units
  • Drove technical roadmap for shared infrastructure serving beTransport, beDelivery, and Cake Digital Bank
  • Championed platform engineering practices, reducing new service onboarding time from weeks to days
GCP (Cloud Pub/Sub, Logging, Tracing, Storage) Go gRPC/Protobuf REST API Kubernetes Helm Docker GitLab CI/CD MySQL Redis WebSocket Elasticsearch Prometheus OpenTelemetry Grafana

Key Projects

BePhoto — High-throughput media processing service handling image uploads, transformations, and CDN distribution
BeWebRTC — Real-time video/voice communication platform for customer support and driver verification
BeExam — Online examination system for driver certification and compliance training
BeGateway — Unified API gateway providing authentication, rate limiting, and request routing for all frontend applications

Senior Software Engineer

Feb 2021 — Apr 2022

  • Core contributor to Platform-SaaS team, building shared services powering beTransport, beDelivery, beFlight, and Cake Digital Bank
  • Designed and maintained SDKs enabling rapid development of secure, high-performance applications across teams
  • Authored technical documentation and engineering blog posts, contributing to knowledge sharing culture

Key Projects

BeKit 2.0 — Next-generation internal framework for bootstrapping Go microservices with production-ready configurations
BeLab — Centralized platform SDK providing unified libraries for authentication, pub/sub, feature flags, WebSocket, logging, and HTTP clients
BeAPI Platform — Backend-for-frontend infrastructure enabling web and mobile apps to interact with microservices through unified endpoints
BeChatBox — Multi-tenant customer support chat platform with intelligent routing and automated responses
BeCallCenter — WebRTC-based voice call center connecting customers with support agents in real-time
BeMailer — Centralized transactional email service with template management, scheduling, and high-throughput delivery
BeClocking — Workforce management system tracking agent activities, shifts, and performance metrics
BeQuesting — Enterprise ticketing system for internal support requests with SLA management and escalation workflows
BeLeadOnboarding — End-to-end driver onboarding platform managing KYC verification, document collection, and digital contract signing
$ ssh teko-vietnam-technology-jsc · Ho Chi Minh City

Core technology arm of VNLife Group, building e-commerce, payment, and logistics solutions for Vietnam's largest retail ecosystem including Phong Vu and VNShop.

Backend Software Engineer

Jul 2018 — Feb 2021

  • Developed and maintained microservices powering Teko's e-commerce platform serving millions of customers
  • Built CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation, reducing deployment time from hours to minutes
  • Contributed to company-wide Go migration initiative, improving system performance and developer productivity
Python Go Kotlin gRPC/Protobuf REST API Flask Django Celery Scrapy Spring Boot Kubernetes Helm Docker Ansible GitLab CI/CD MySQL SQL Server MongoDB Elasticsearch Redis Memcached RabbitMQ Kafka Debezium CDC Prometheus OpenTelemetry Grafana Jaeger Bazel

Key Projects

Integration System — Bridge system connecting modern microservices with legacy accounting infrastructure
Market Eyes — Competitive intelligence platform with automated daily crawling and price comparison analytics
Order Management System v1 — Unified order processing platform for offline retail operations (showrooms)
Order Management System v2 — Extended platform supporting multi-channel commerce (web, mobile, seller apps) with multi-tenant architecture
Order Capturing & Shopping Cart — Decoupled cart and checkout services extracted from monolithic OMS for independent scaling
Tekit & Tekone — Company-wide Go SDK (Tekit) and monorepo platform (Tekone) standardizing development practices
$ ssh vnuhcm-university-of-science-ai-lab · Ho Chi Minh City

Research laboratory at Vietnam's top science university, bridging academic AI research with real-world applications in education technology.

Software Engineer (Contract)

Jun 2017 — Nov 2018

  • Developed full-stack web applications for AI-powered educational platforms
  • Built VnSigma - a tutor-student matching platform connecting educators with learners
  • Created Vietcap - speech-to-text system for Vietnamese video captioning
  • Contributed to Khanviet MOOC platform (EDX-based), implementing code grading and analytics
  • Co-authored 'Python for Beginners' textbook and delivered programming courses
MongoDB MeteorJS jQuery PostgreSQL Open edX (Django)

Key Projects

VnSigma — Tutor-student matching platform connecting educators with learners based on subjects, availability, and preferences
Vietcap — Speech-to-text system for automatic Vietnamese video captioning using AI models
Khanviet MOOC — Vietnamese adaptation of Khan Academy built on Open edX platform

$ cat education.txt

Bachelor of Information Technology

VNUHCM – University of Science

Honors Program GPA: 8.82/10

Ready to build something great? Always looking for interesting challenges.

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