Hi, I'm Viet Tien Nguyen 👋🏻

Technical leader in backend and distributed systems — Rust, Go, TypeScript. Based in Vietnam, open to remote roles.

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  • TODO-YYYY-MM - TODO-YYYY-MM
    Octan Network
    Software Engineer

    Blockchain data and analytics.

    • Cut API response times by 70% through query and architecture optimisation.
    • Migrated analytical workloads from PostgreSQL to ClickHouse, achieving a 3x speedup on the affected paths.
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    Spores Network
    Software Engineer

    TODO — one line on scope.

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    U2U Network
    Technical Leader

    Decentralized peer-to-peer network infrastructure.

    • Led development of the P2P networking layer in Rust (QUIC via Quinn) and Go, handling 10,000+ daily active nodes.
    • Owned high-throughput distributed-systems design: connection management, backpressure, and reliability under churn.
    • Worked directly with ecosystem partners, turning their requirements into concrete technical solutions and delivery plans.
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    Vela Corporation
    Software Engineer

    TODO — one line on scope.

  • TODO-YYYY-MM - Present
    Vixex
    Technical Leader

    Licensed cryptocurrency exchange in Vietnam. Lead backend engineering for the CEX affiliate platform.

    • Own the backend architecture of the affiliate platform: NestJS/TypeScript services, PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, Zitadel IAM, with Go microservices for real-time paths.
    • Designed and shipped a real-time WebSocket notification service in Go (sqlx, Redis Pub/Sub, JWT middleware) with a subscribe-before-backfill reconnection pattern to prevent missed events.
    • Designed the event architecture on RabbitMQ: topic exchange, routing-key conventions, and dead-letter handling.
    • Designed an i18n-safe notification schema (dot-notation keys, client-side rendering) and the accompanying migration.
    • Built a polyglot shared-constants pipeline (NestJS + PHP) from a single JSON/YAML source to typed npm and Composer packages.
    • Introduced black-box end-to-end API tests (Jest + Axios) against a staging environment; caught JOIN semantics and N+1 issues in code review.
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