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5+ years designing and running web systems at real scale. Specialised in backend architecture, distributed systems and microservices with Go and Node.js — plus enough frontend to own a vertical slice end to end.

Updated Sep 2026 · PDF on request.

Experience

• Feb 2026 — now

  Software Engineer — VNG Games (VNG Corporation) Core developer on the VNG Rewards Platform: 14+ backend services and 4 frontend applications serving the gaming loyalty and rewards programs. Go (Echo) microservices for the rewards engine, tier management, points, gift-code redemption and inventory; an event-driven architecture on Kafka for reward distribution and audit trails; an IAM service with JWT and RBAC for the admin dashboard.

• Sep 2022 — Feb 2026

  Senior Software Engineer — Hasaki Beauty & Clinic JSC Led backend design for the internal platforms (WORKPLACE, CRM) used by 3,000+ colleagues with 2,000+ concurrent sessions at peak, and for sales channels reaching over a million customers. Improved throughput and cut latency by more than 10× through caching and query optimisation; reduced operational cost by 50% with automation, a chatbot and in-house ZNS/email services; cut manual deployment time by 70% with a CI/CD transformation.

• Jan 2025 — now

  Freelance software engineer Full-cycle solutions for SMEs and startups, from business consulting through to deployment. A lot of work across the Zalo developer ecosystem — Mini Apps, ZNS, API integrations. Key projects: a property CRM, a boarding-house management SaaS, a recruitment Zalo Mini App, and SEO-tuned landing pages.

• Jan 2024 — now

  Programming instructor — VTC Academy Teaching across the Advanced Fullstack Software Engineering program: JavaScript/TypeScript, front-end and back-end web, database design, cloud deployment, software architecture, Python (FastAPI), React Native and DevOps. Mentored students on real-world architecture and performance; co-authored the technical material used across the training programs.

• Aug 2022 — Sep 2023

  Mentor & software engineer — ITSS Training and Solution Service Coached teams through full-stack projects (MEAN & MERN). Led Web3 and blockchain R&D with Solidity and NestJS microservices; shipped Flutter mobile work and guided app-store publishing.

Stack

• Languages

  Go (Golang) · JavaScript · TypeScript

• Frontend

  React · Next.js · Remix

• Data

  MySQL · MongoDB · PostgreSQL · ClickHouse · Firebase

• Infra

  Kafka · Redis · Docker · Kubernetes · Helm · CI/CD · AWS

• Observability

  Elasticsearch (ELK) · Prometheus · OpenTelemetry · Sentry

• Notifications

  Firebase Cloud Messaging · Zalo ZNS · SendGrid

• Architecture

  DDD · Clean Architecture · Event-driven · OOP · SOLID

Education

• 2023 — now

  Master of Computer Science Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT)

• 2018 — 2022

  Bachelor of Information Technology Hoa Sen University

Certifications & community

• 2022

  Google Solution Challenge Google

• English

  Aptis certificate British Council

• Community

  Runway core member Codeathon, QuanQuanGCP, Livecode and open-source initiatives

Contact

• trong.phamtranduc@gmail.com
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