Khai is my given name. Most people call me Kyle.

I am a Solution Architect and full-stack engineer with 9+ years of experience, including several years as Head of Technical Department. My core stack is ASP.NET Core and React, with Roslyn compiler work underneath, across banking, renewable energy, automotive and enterprise BPM.

Most of what I have built sits in the same place: the layer between a business rule and the code that enforces it. A schema-driven code generation platform for enterprise .NET and React systems. A low-code BPM engine that replaced a Silverlight product. An onboarding flow where eligibility rules change without a redeploy. The recurring theme is making systems configurable without making them fragile.

Lately that has meant agentic AI: Semantic Kernel orchestration, MCP server design, and the guardrails around them - validation gates, eval design, cost and turn limits. Five consecutive AI hackathon wins came out of that work, one of which opened a strategic education-sector partnership.

I am based in Ho Chi Minh City.

Technical Skills

Solution Architecture & Technical Leadership

  • Architecture decision records, ADDs, NFRs, SLAs, quality gates, technical policy checklists, solution assurance
  • Legacy modernisation, microservices on cloud and on-premises, event-driven and distributed workflow systems
  • Client discovery, technical presales, estimation, code review, refactoring strategy, workshops, mentoring

.NET & Backend Engineering

  • C#, .NET 8, .NET Framework, ASP.NET Core, Kestrel, Minimal APIs, ABP, Blazor, WPF, WinForms, Avalonia
  • Roslyn - AST and semantic analysis, source generators, contract synchronisation
  • EF Core, Dapper, ADO.NET stored procedures, Sequelize, TypeORM, HostedService, Hangfire, Quartz, DevExpress
  • Rust, Go, Java Spring Boot, Node.js, Python, PowerShell, Bash; DDD, CQRS, Vertical Slice, Clean/Onion, MVVM

AI Systems & Agentic Architecture

  • Semantic Kernel orchestration, MCP server design, RAG pipelines, vector retrieval
  • Guardrails and validation gates, eval design, provider-agnostic model layers, cost and turn limits

Cloud, Infrastructure & DevSecOps

  • Azure (App Service, SQL, Aspire, AKS, Monitor, DevOps), AWS (EKS, Lambda, SNS/SQS, KMS, S3, ECR)
  • Kubernetes, Docker, Harbor, ACR, ECR, Terraform, Ansible, Dapr, Istio, Kong, Traefik, Nx monorepo
  • GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Travis CI; OWASP, Veracode SAST/IAST, IAM, KMS, WAF, Nexus
  • NGINX, Caddy, Apache, IIS, Ubuntu, CentOS, Windows Server, VMware ESXi, on-premises and hybrid operations

Frontend, Mobile & Desktop

  • React, Next.js, Angular, Vue, Stencil.js, TypeScript, micro frontends, Module Federation, MUI, Ant Design, Tailwind
  • React Native, Flutter, Kotlin, Swift, Unity, Tauri, Electron, Avalonia, low-code and BPMN 2.0 platform design

Data, Integration & Observability

  • SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, Oracle, SQLite, MongoDB, Cosmos DB, Redis, Elasticsearch, Meilisearch
  • REST, gRPC, GraphQL, WebSocket, SignalR, SSE, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Hazelcast, Azure Service Bus, AWS SNS/SQS
  • xUnit, NUnit, Moq, Jest, JUnit, Mockito, Cucumber, Playwright, Maestro, Selenium, k6, JMeter, Datadog, New Relic

Education

Bachelor of Engineering, Information Technology - 2016 to 2021 University of Transport, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Certifications

  • Claude Certified Architect, Foundations - Anthropic, 2026
  • GitHub Copilot Certification - Microsoft, 2026
  • Microsoft PL-900 - Power Platform Fundamentals
  • NVIDIA - Transformer-Based NLP, and AI on Jetson Nano
  • FPT Europe Solution Architect - selected for an offshore development centre after previous senior candidates did not pass the client interview
  • FPT Solution Architect - CTO-led internal certification

Recognition

  • FPT Software Top 100 nominee - 2023 and 2025
  • Best Rookie of the Year - 2023
  • FHM Best Performance, FPT Stars and FPT TalentSphere for mentoring - 2025
  • Great Job award - FPT Software

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Languages

  • Vietnamese - native
  • English - full professional proficiency (TOEIC 900, EnglishScore certified)

Also

Agile Scrum and plan-driven delivery, DevOps configuration and release management, technical training, architecture workshops and engineering policy development across onshore and offshore teams.

Co-founded a game studio covering product engineering, backend, web, mobile, Unity, DevOps, security, digital marketing and SEO in a resource-constrained environment.

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