About

Lam Tran

Principal engineer working at the seam of system design and applied AI.

I’m a principal engineer with over a decade across mobile, web, and backend systems. My work sits at the seam of system design and applied AI — taking products from architecture to production, often as the person responsible for both. Currently at Fluentjoy, leading infrastructure, backend, and the AI features driving the app’s core experience.

  • Open to select engagements
  • Based in HCMC · Working with global teams
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Experience

A decade of practice

Jun 2024 — Now

Principal Software Engineer · Fluentjoy · HCMC

Lead infrastructure, backend, and AI integration for an English-learning app built on a TikTok-style short-video model. Multi-cloud across AWS (primary), Azure, and GCP. Built the AI features powering Fluentjoy’s core experience and the automated content pipeline behind it.

  • Multi-cloud infrastructure ownership: uptime, cost, vendor accounts, incident response
  • Agentic AI conversation tutor with dynamic role-play and pronunciation scoring
  • AI translation system replacing legacy keys/values localization
  • Recommendation engine tuned to user skill level and interests
  • Fully automated AI pipeline: scripts → video (OpenAI / Veo3 / ImageGen) → social
Aug 2023 — Jun 2024

Principal Software Engineer · KMS Technology · HCMC

Embedded principal across two client engagements: a Big-4 R&D credentialing platform built on Web3 + AI, and a US sports-ticketing startup transitioning from monolithic Java to microservices.

  • Led the Big-4 R&D engagement on a professional credentialing platform: W3C Verifiable Credentials, decentralized identity, smart contracts on Azure, Okta SSO, and an AI knowledge base modelling workforce skill sets — system design, infrastructure, PoC delivery, and stakeholder demos
  • Agile lead on the sports-ticketing client delivery; partnered with the US client’s core team
  • Built TypeScript / Go / Python service baselines for their legacy Java → microservices migration
Jan 2021 — Aug 2023

Principal Software Engineer · ELSA Corp · HCMC

Owned the backend for ELSA’s English-learning app at scale on AWS / EKS. Migrated the legacy stack into a microservices architecture, set the team’s coding and CI/CD standards, and partnered with speech/AI scientists on production scoring and recommendation services.

  • Architecture migration: legacy backend → microservices on EKS
  • Designed and shipped SpeechAnalyzer as a new product line
  • Stood up CI/CD baselines, unit + integration testing standards
  • Direct partnership with the speech/AI team on the Golang scoring service
Jan 2018 — Jan 2021

Technical Architect · NashTech Vietnam · HCMC

Joined as senior, promoted to architect. Consulting and hands-on across mobile, web, backend, cloud, and blockchain. Multiple critical-timeline deliveries.

  • Tech lead on an international student / university matching platform — delivered against a critical client timeline with challenging scope
  • ERC-20 token, ICO campaign, and crypto-exchange application architecture
  • Cross-platform mobile + multi-cloud (Azure / AWS / GCP) consulting
  • Named-client engagements: a US Ivy League university campus app, a UK construction-engineering firm field tooling
Mar 2017 — Dec 2017

Full-stack Developer · Bach Tuoc So JSC · HCMC

Founding engineer for a crypto trading platform. Worn-many-hats role spanning blockchain consultation, system architecture, hands-on coding, and Ubuntu sysadmin.

Aug 2016 — Mar 2017

Backend Developer · Hunter MacDonald (Net Company) · HCMC

Scrum delivery on a UK governance management website. .NET Framework 4.5 + SQL Server, end-to-end feature ownership from database design up.

Feb 2015 — Aug 2016

Mobile Team Leader · Mobile Entertainment Corp · HCMC

Led a small team building a Windows Phone 8.1 gaming SDK (auth, ads, chat). Side projects on company social and game-event integrations.

Sep 2013 — Feb 2015

Mobile Developer · FPT Software · HCMC

Two Windows Phone 8 / 8.1 projects: maintaining a production NFL livescore app, and prototyping a movie app from scratch.

Toolkit

What I work with

Frontend
Angular · React · Vue · Next.js · Tailwind
Mobile
React Native · Flutter · native Android/iOS
Backend
Node.js · NestJS · Express · .NET Core · Python (Django / FastAPI / Flask) · Go
Languages
TypeScript · Python · Dart · C# · Go
Cloud & Infra
AWS · GCP · Azure · Kubernetes (EKS) · Docker · GitLab CI · Ubuntu
Data
PostgreSQL · MySQL · MongoDB · BigQuery
AI / ML
OpenAI · Agentic frameworks · NLP (STT, pronunciation) · Generative AI · LangChain
Architecture
Microservices · system design end-to-end · on-prem + cloud

Credentials

Education

Education

  • BSc, Computer Science

    University of Information Technology · 2009 — 2013

    Focus: computer architecture, networking, algorithms, ML / data mining. GPA 7.5.

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