San Francisco, California, United States
Vietnamese born. Illinois alum, worked at big and small tech companies in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Sydney, Hanoi. Trained to be a specialist but far more effective as a generalist. Very competitive high schooler, obsessed with robots (software) in college, studied machine learning in grad school, search engineer at Google and backend and data engineer at Airbnb. Try to be helpful to others, including my son. (Emerging markets) startups advisor and angel investor.
Back to my root as an engineer (through VinAI’s acquisition). Excited about making Gen AI work for personal devices. Love making tools to enable widespread technology.
Leverage Open Sourced Foundation Models. Strategic partnership with businesses and startups to co-create new AI products. Train young talent to beef up national AI capability (Sovereign AI).
We leverage recent advances in AI to power small businesses in developing regions. We're looking for founding engineers. Add me on LinkedIn to find out more.
Member of Pricing and Availability (panda) team. Also worked on Search, API, Calendar backend, Last minutes booking, Demand prediction, Analytics.
Create and operate a family/kids friendly listing in the Santa Clara (a.k.a. the heart of silicon valley). Served 100+ Airbnb guests with average review score of 4.7/5.
Founded in Hanoi, Vietnam, with a vision to connect talents and knowledge from oversea to create meaningful products in Vietnam and South East Asia. Creator of chongiadung.vn : a product search engine to help promote the nascent E-Commerce industry in Vietnam.