resume.json

{
    "basics": {
        "name": "Từ Thế Hiển ( Jay )",
        "label": "CTO",
        "picture": "",
        "email": "jtuthehien@gmail.com",
        "phone": "+84813980811",
        "summary": "A lifelong learner, with over a decade building teams and businesses across various industries, a mixture of up to date hands on coding and technical leadership with first hand experiences in scaling consumer product business, zero to multi millions company.  I was part of many early development cycle of startups, mostly founding member since day 1 till it becomes market dominance. I enjoy solving technical challenges, and architecting complex platform at scale, serving million users on a daily basis.  I believe in devops, agile with no boundary, empowerment engineering culture",
        "location": {
            "address": "District 2",
            "postalCode": "",
            "city": "Hồ Chí Minh",
            "countryCode": "VN"
        },
        "profiles": [
            {
                "network": "Linkedin",
                "username": "thehien",
                "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/thehien/"
            }
        ]
    },
    "work": [
        {
            "company": "Cake Digital Bank - beFinancial",
            "position": "CTO",
            "website": "https://cake.vn/",
            "startDate": "2020-11-01",
            "summary": "Building the fastest growing Vietnam's digital bank. Spin off from a small payment team within beGroup, I help bringing experiences from building large scale O2O consumer product to banking/financial services and help grow a digital bank on modern technology platform at record speed",
            "highlights": [
                "Launch a new digital bank app from scratch, in 2.5 months with microservices Golang based backend, Flutter cross-platform mobile app",
                "Lead the corebanking replacement, completed in record 74 days https://www.mambu.com/insights/press/mambu-facilitates-hypergrowth-for-cake-dominates-asia-pacific-cloud-banking-platform-market",
                "Acquire 1 million users in 9 months",
                "Transform legacy system to a modern cloud native architecture: containerized Kubernetes based, CI/CD devopsflow, full service mesh Istio, end-to-end tracing full visibility and self-service configuration-as-code banking product parameterize system.",
                "Launch debit card, virtual card, credit card, micro investment product",
                "Design, architect and build in-house core system: LOS, Loan Management system, SmartOTP, OpenBanking API platform"
            ]
        },
        {
            "company": "beGroup",
            "position": "CTO",
            "website": "https://be.com.vn/",
            "startDate": "2020-11-01",
            "summary": "Expanding from my previous scope, managing both Engineering, Product and BI team. Grow and manage the group technology hub with 200 headcount serving various business lines including Ride Hailing, Delivery, Mobility, Food, Fintech",
            "highlights": [
                "Successful fundraising with 300M valuation",
                "Spin off and launch beFood in 3 months Covid lockdown on limited resources",
                "Launch beMobility product line, with Flight, Insurance, Taxi, and other VAS products",
                "Revamp data platform on top of DBT, codify data pipeline from ingesting, ETL, to visualization",
                "Optimize cloud infrastructure, with 65% overall utilization",
                "Build up internal Saas Platform service, Developer Experience (DX) team improving overall engineering efficiency",
                "Manage product and technology roadmap"
            ]
        },
        {
            "company": "beTech",
            "position": "CEO",
            "website": "https://be.com.vn/",
            "startDate": "2020-12-01",
            "summary": "Managing beGroup Tech Hub entity",
            "highlights": []
        },
        {
            "company": "VNLife/Teko",
            "position": "Head of Engineering",
            "website": "https://teko.vn/",
            "startDate": "2020-05-01",
            "endDate": "2020-11-15",
            "summary": "VNLife is Vietnam's 2nd Unicorn where Teko is it's techhub building platform and product for various businesses. In charge of group backend Platform, Site Reliablity Engineer, and Orderfulfillment product line",
            "highlights": [
                "Revamp backend platform from Python/Flask to modern Golang grpc based micro services, event driven architecture",
                "Design and build new order fulfillment architecture as Cloud Based/SaaS support multiple business line in ecosystem",
                "Revamp current infrastructure to hybrid cloud (on prem+ gcp). Migrate group infrastructure to container based, kubernetes cluster",
                "Design and build internal platform named Tekone, a golang based monorepo with built-in tooling and best practices"
            ]
        },
        {
            "company": "be Group",
            "position": "Head of Engineering/Engineering Director",
            "website": "https://be.xyz",
            "startDate": "2018-08-25",
            "endDate": "2020-04-30",
            "summary": "Help building the next Vietnamese super app. Lead, build, and grow core engineering team including core backend, devops/sre, data engineering. Architect the whole platform on Google Cloud/hybrid infrastructure, containerized microservices application, event drive architecture, data driven platform.",
            "highlights": [
                "Spearhead a lean agile team to successfully launch fully fledge be ride hailing app in 2.5 months, together with 4 other companion business products",
                "Lead, manage, build core platform team including core backend, data engineering, devops/sre team. Built a full automation, gitops CI/CD, codified autoscaled infrastructure, realtime data/event pipeline platform based on CDC/Kafka",
                "Scale, stablize and grow be app to 2 millions users, 30+ millions trips after 6 months, 150+ micro services, some hit 10k rps, 2TB+ database size, while continuously adding more new features and vertical.",
                "Recruit and build high performance engineering team. Grow to 80+ headcount engineering team, hanlded over 10 main product line",
                "Manage budget, build technology roadmap"
            ]
        },
        {
            "company": "Chợ Tốt - Carousell group",
            "position": "Head of Technology",
            "website": "https://chotot.com",
            "startDate": "2015-08-15",
            "endDate": "2018-08-01",
            "summary": "Build and scale the Vietnamese's largest online marketplace. Provide technology vision, grow technical team both size and expertise and lead the team to achieve business growth with a modern up-to-date technical platform. Serving 1 million DAU, with over 1.5bil pageviews monthly",
            "highlights": [
                "Hire, grow and lead full high performance engineering team. Strong focus on backend, data, platform, infrastructure. Hire, coach and build up technical team capability.",
                "Transform legacy monolith app C/PHP based to full 100+ micro services React/Golang based, event driven architecture.",
                "Built modern devops flow, cloud native stack with kubernetes at the core on hybrid, on-premise baremetal and cloud infrastructure. Full system observability through end to end monitoring and alerting",
                "Collaborate with other sister site and regional/global tech hub: Kaidee, Mudah, Schibsted Technology Group",
                "Lead and build core system: Payment, virtual currency Dongtot, Chat, Search engine and listing service, auto review system, realtime data streaming platform, image serving/processing system"
            ]
        },
        {
            "company": "Skoolbo",
            "position": "Tech Lead - Founding engineer",
            "website": "http://www.skoolbo.com/",
            "startDate": "2011-09-01",
            "endDate": "2015-09-15",
            "summary": "Help building the largest online Education game from 1 man-team to global team with offices in 4 continents",
            "highlights": [
                "Early employee, helped building the team and product from ground up",
                "Lead the development of the company core product, Skoolbo Core Skills, a cross-platform multiplayer 3D learning game, the largest educational game ever, together with other supporting apps. The products are available in all major platforms Windows, OSX, IOS, Android, and Windows 8. ",
                "Lead the development of game server with Python + postgres, later transitioned to NodeJS and .NET on Azure",
                "Setup, build, and lead a full stack development team in Ho Chi Minh city."
            ]
        },
        {
            "company": "Nubee Pte Ltd",
            "position": "Game Programmer",
            "website": "",
            "startDate": "2011-03-01",
            "endDate": "2011-09-01",
            "summary": "Game engine and gameplay programmer",
            "highlights": [
                "Worked on mobile social gaming (IOS and Android), Japan Life, accumulated more than 10 million downloads in 3 months.  Implement gameplay, optimization, Android version",
                "Developed cross platform 3D/2D rendering engine with OpenGL ES 2.0: text rendering, skin animation, particle system, UI.",
                "Worked on art pipeline (convert other fbx and md5 format to engine optimized file mesh and animation format), in-house tool editor (UI Editor, Particle Editor).",
                "Gameplay and engine development for Da Vincis’s Quest"
            ]
        },
        {
            "company": "Time Voyager",
            "position": "Game Engine R&D",
            "startDate": "2009-08-01",
            "endDate": "2011-02-01",
            "summary": "Develop in-house 3D game engine",
            "highlights": [
                "Worked on a large scale MMORPG title : Chaos Gate. Developed independently Particles System and related tool editors: Particle Editors, Combo Effect Editors. Worked on graphics rendering in game, dynamic weather system, dynamic decal, volumetric light rendering, lens flare, under water rendering. It was later released as Rise Of Metin",
                "Developed Skill/Spell visual effect system, animation and movement system: swimming, flying, mounting, animation blending system, mesh-based path finding",
                "Developed and maintain Engine Tool editors such as Item Editor, Scene Editor, Game Editor.",
                "Lead developer of Virtual Mall Singapore project in parnership with Capitaland"
            ]
        }
    ],
    "education": [
        {
            "institution": "National University of Singapore",
            "url": "https://nus.edu.sg",
            "area": "Computer Science",
            "studyType": "Bachelor",
            "startDate": "2005-08-01",
            "endDate": "2009-07-01",
            "gpa": "4.36",
            "courses": []
        },
        {
            "institution": "University of Uppsala",
            "area": "Exchange Study",
            "studyType": "Bachelor",
            "startDate": "2006-09-01",
            "endDate": "2007-01-01",
            "courses": []
        }
    ],
    "awards": [
        {
            "title": "AWS Certified Solutions Architect",
            "date": "2018-06-01",
            "awarder": "AWS",
            "summary": "Cert Number: 3Y6RPXE2BME11QGK"
        },
        {
            "title": "Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect",
            "date": "2018-06-01",
            "awarder": "GCP",
            "summary": "Cert number: 8zv8fp"
        },
        {
            "title": "Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)",
            "date": "2017-09-01",
            "awarder": "Cloud Native Foundation",
            "summary": "Cert number: CKA-1700-0081-0100"
        },
        {
            "title": "Singapore Scholarship",
            "date": "2005-05-01",
            "awarder": "Ministry of Foreign Affairs Singapore",
            "summary": "Full time undergrad scholarship at National University of Singapore, for top students in South East Asia"
        },
        {
            "title": "Hoare Award",
            "date": "2009-01-01",
            "awarder": "National University of Singapore, School of Computing",
            "summary": "Code guru, most optimized software"
        },
        {
            "title": "Distiction Prize ",
            "date": "2009-02-01",
            "awarder": "Egenting programming competition",
            "summary": "8 hour paper-based coding"
        },
        {
            "title": "Dean's list",
            "date": "2006-08-01",
            "awarder": "National University of Singapore",
            "summary": "Top 5% student in School"
        },
        {
            "title": "3rd Prize",
            "date": "2001-03-01",
            "awarder": "National Olympiad",
            "summary": "National competitive programming for highschool students"
        },
        {
            "title": "3rd Prize",
            "date": "2002-04-01",
            "awarder": "National Olympiad",
            "summary": "National competitive programming for highschool students"
        },
        {
            "title": "Gold Medal",
            "date": "2002-04-30",
            "awarder": "Olympiad in Informatics of South Viet Nam",
            "summary": ""
        }
    ],
    "publications": [],
    "skills": [
        {
            "name": "Management",
            "level": "Expert",
            "keywords": [
                "Budget planning",
                "Product roadmap",
                "Recruiting",
                "Engineering roadmap"
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Programming languages",
            "level": "Expert",
            "keywords": [
                "Golang",
                "Nodejs",
                "Python"
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Data System",
            "level": "Expert",
            "keywords": [
                "Postgres",
                "MySQL",
                "Redis",
                "Mongodb",
                "ElasticSearch",
                "Kafka",
                "Cassandra"
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Platform",
            "level": "Expert",
            "keywords": [
                "GCP",
                "Kubernetes",
                "Docker",
                "Kong"
            ]
        }
    ],
    "languages": [
        {
            "language": "English",
            "fluency": "Fluent"
        },
        {
            "language": "Vietnamese",
            "fluency": "Native"
        }
    ],
    "interests": [
        {
            "name": "Music Instrument",
            "keywords": [
                "Guitar",
                "Piano"
            ]
        }
    ],
    "volunteer": [
        {
            "organization": "Cloud Native Vietnam",
            "position": "Admin",
            "startDate": "2017-01-01",
            "summary": "Help sharing knowledge, and connect fellow engineers, share the interest in cloud native stack"
        }
    ],
    "references": [],
    "meta": {
        "theme": "stackoverflow"
    }
}