Nguyen Tran — Senior Software Engineer and AI Researcher based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Ten years of production engineering with research in medical AI and computer vision.
01 — ENGINEERING
02 — RESEARCH
03 — PHILOSOPHY
Stream of Consciousness
I've built production systems for a decade.
I research medical AI and computer vision.
Published at the 5th Global Ortho-K & Myopia Conference, 2025.
AI doesn't replace engineers — it amplifies them.
I translate research into scalable, deployable systems.
I explore model interpretability and generalisation across diverse datasets.
04 — TRAJECTORY
Career & Education
- 2021 — Present
Senior Software Engineer
Employment Hero·Remote · Vietnam
Designing scalable backend systems serving 300,000+ businesses across 5 countries. Leading architectural decisions for distributed payroll services and integrating AI tooling across the engineering organisation.
- 300k+
- Businesses served
- 5
- Countries
- AI
- Tooling lead
- ·Lead technical research and architectural decision-making for complex distributed payroll systems
- ·Integrate AI tools into development workflows to enhance code quality and team productivity
- ·Implement CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and CircleCI for automated testing and deployment
Ruby on RailsTypeScriptPostgreSQLKubernetesAWS - 2018 — 2020
Software Engineer
VNG Corporation·Ho Chi Minh City
Architected the full-stack authentication system for Zalo Web Login (millions of daily active users). Built Java microservices, REST APIs, and observability tooling for anomaly detection.
- Millions
- Daily active users
- Auth
- Web Login system
- 24/7
- Observability
- ·Designed logging, error-tracking, and statistical analysis systems for monitoring and anomaly detection
- ·Integrated authentication across multiple platforms; addressed web security challenges and data protection
- ·Built Java server-side applications using microservices architecture and RESTful APIs
JavaMicroservicesRESTMonitoring - 2017 — 2018
Web Developer
Nguyen Hiep Software·Ho Chi Minh City
Built full-stack web applications on the MEAN stack. Deployed scalable backend services on AWS for early-stage commerce products.
- AWS
- Cloud delivery
- Agile
- CI · automated tests
- ·Built scalable backend services with Node.js, RESTful APIs, and AWS cloud infrastructure
- ·Applied Agile/Scrum methodologies and automated testing for continuous delivery
MongoDBExpressAngularNode.js - 2014 — 2018
Education
Engineering Degree, Computer Science
Ho Chi Minh University of Technology (HCMUT)
GPA 7.22 / 10.0
05 — BY THE NUMBERS
- 10+Years Engineering01
- 538+Merged Pull Requests02
- 300k+Businesses Served03
- 70%AI-Assisted Workflow04
06 — SELECTED WORKS
Research & Systems
07 — RECOGNITION
Honors & Inquiry
August 2025
5th Global Orthokeratology — Myopia Control Conference
“Artificial Intelligence Model for Detecting Pathologic Myopia and Segmenting Lesions on Fundus Images”
→ Presented at Vietnam Ophthalmology Conference VOS — November 2025
“AI is not replacing developers — it's amplifying our capabilities. I use AI as a collaborative tool to focus on high-level problem-solving while automating the routine.
Research Interests
- 01Deep Learning Architectures
- 02Computer Vision
- 03Healthcare AI
- 04Model Interpretability
- 05Scalable ML Systems
Languages
- EnglishProfessional · TOEIC 820
- VietnameseNative
08 — TECHNICAL ARSENAL