Vinh Vu

I build things

Fountain Valley, California, United States

About

Software engineer. Scala/FP enthusiast. Always learning, always improving.

Experience

  • Software Engineer at Writer
    Aug 2024 - Present · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Senior Software Engineer at Gemini
    Mar 2021 - Oct 2021 · 8 mos

    Specialized in enhancing the payments platform of a leading crypto exchange. Key projects included successfully integrating PayPal, broadening payment options, and pioneering the platform's expansion into the Colombian market

  • Credit Karma (Full-time · 3 yrs 2 mos)
    • Software Engineer IV
      Aug 2019 - Mar 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos

    • Software Engineer III
      May 2018 - Aug 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos

    • Software Engineer II
      Feb 2018 - May 2018 · 4 mos

  • Software Engineer at Shippo
    Jan 2017 - Feb 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos

    Built, improved, and maintained new features for Shippo's API involving supply chain logistics, using Django’s web framework. Improved and maintained various shop app integrations' architecture which collectively imported & fulfilled thousands of orders daily. Responsible for leading and implementing the international address verification service, to prevent expensive surcharges and to add a new revenue stream. Coded a multitude of abstraction layers to improve and to reduce repeated work for similar services across tens of carriers.

  • Software Engineer Intern at Atlas Informatics
    Jun 2016 - Sep 2016 · 4 mos

    Design and build a business intelligence platform for user analytics using MySQL for use by our engineering, user research and marketing team. Create various ETL Ruby scripts that pull/push data from our business intelligence database into third-party applications such as Piwik and Hubspot. Automate data aggregation for user analytics on a nightly basis using Cron and an AWS EC2 instance. Work side by side with marketing and research teams to identify key needs for user analytics. Improve platform services by restructuring and simplifying configuration of Elasticsearch in Go. Learn and practice first-hand agile development daily in a highly transparent and collaborative environment.