Tran Van Tu

Senior Software Engineer

Work experience

Senior Software Engineer
Merchize, Vietnam
Nov 2018 - Jul 2022 (3 yrs 9 mos)
  • Built a high availability and scalable eCommerce platform from scratch with microservice architecture and Kubernetes, serving more than 1,000+ active stores and thousands of daily orders.
  • Built a reliable fulfillment service to process orders efficiently from the eCommerce platform and navigate them to factories or partners smoothly.
  • Reduced costs by 60% each month by converting the system from single-tenant architecture to multi-tenant architecture and using spot instances provided by Amazon.
  • Collaborated with the SRE team to build fully automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment using GitLab CI.
Node.jsNext.jsReactMongoDBRedisRabbitMQEFKKubernetesDockerAWS
Software Engineer
Foobla, Vietnam
Sep 2017 - Nov 2018 (1yr 3mos)
    Project: SpyBadass
  • Built a system to crawl advertising from Facebook and provided valuable ideas to help sellers make decisions better.
  • Launched the app to public users after 1 month and had more than 100 paid users after the first day.
  • Project: SpyAMZ
  • Worked as a full-stack developer to develop a research tool, which is providing more than 120 million products updated ranking data daily from Amazon Merch on demand and is used by more than thousands of paid users.
Node.jsReactPuppeteerRedisMongoDBElasticSearch
Co-Founder & Instructor
UET Code Camp, Vietnam
Feb 2018 - Jul 2019 (1yr 6mos)
  • Volunteered, built, and taught two tech courses for 2 years with more than 60+ students at UET-VNU.
  • First course: How to build a web app with React.js.
  • Second course: How to become a backend developer with Node.js.
Node.jsReactMongoDB
WordPress Developer
Foobla, Vietnam
Jun 2015 - Aug 2017 (2yrs 2mos)
  • Developed various plugins and themes for WordPress, which are on top best-selling items on ThemeForest (Envato).
PHPHTML5JavascriptSCSSMySQLNginx

Education

Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Technology
VNU University of Engineering and Technology
Sep 2013 - Jul 2017
Vietnam

Achievements

Best Employee of 2019
Awarded to the best engineer by Merchize.
Special Award - Smart Hack 2016
Given by GMO-Z.com RUNSYSTEM.
Second prize - UET Hackathon 2015 & 2017
Given by VNU University of Engineering and Technology.

Skills & Tools

Programing Languages
  • Javascript, GoLang, Java
  • HTML5, CSS3
Frameworks / Platforms
  • Node.js, Express, React.js, Next.js
  • jQuery, Bootstrap
  • Laravel, WordPress, WooCommerce
Database Management Systems
  • MongoDB, MySQL
  • ElasticSearch, Redis
Deployment / Infrastructure
  • Docker, Kubernetes
  • AWS, Google Cloud Platform, DigitalOcean
  • Git, CI/CD