Outside the editor
This site argues that I can build fast, well-structured frontends. It says nothing about who is doing the building. This page is for that.
Roots
I live in Da Nang and most of my career has been spent with European teams. Most of what I know about writing things down, deciding in public, and leaving a trail someone can follow came from that, not from a book about process.
From my second year at university until a year after graduating, I mentored frontend at S-GROUP, a non-profit here in Da Nang. I had been mentored there myself when I started, which is a tidy shape for a thing to have: you get taught, you teach, you leave when it is someone else's turn.
I still mentor at work. One of the engineers I worked with moved from junior to middle, which is the part of the job that does not appear in any commit history.
The number ten
This site is blue and garnet, the nav says PLAYMAKER, and the hero calls me a number ten. That is FC Barcelona, and it is Messi, and until now the site has never explained itself.
The reason it is not decoration: a playmaker's job is to see the pass before it exists. Not to be fastest, not to be strongest, but to have already read where everyone will be. That is the same habit as designing a frontend architecture, and it is the only football metaphor in software that I think survives contact with the actual work.
Badminton is the version I play rather than watch. It punishes reacting. Whoever reads position early gets to hit a comfortable shot; whoever reads it late spends the rally recovering. I have lost enough points to that to take it personally.
Over coffee
Da Nang runs on coffee, and so does most of my thinking. Not the productivity kind. The kind where a friend or my partner asks what I am working on and I have to explain it without the vocabulary, which is usually when I find out whether I understand it.
Family gets the hours that are not spoken for. I do not have a clever framing for that one.
I read, and I keep picking up skills that nobody asked me for. The AWS certification in 2025 came out of that habit rather than a requirement. It is the same instinct that led me into agentic delivery workflows.
Places
Travelling is the thing I actually save for. Most provinces in Vietnam, by now, in the unglamorous way of going back to the same coastline in different weather.
Abroad it has been eight countries so far. Four of them are in Europe, which is where the teams and clients I have worked with for years actually sit. Working German business hours from Da Nang and having stood in those places are not the same kind of knowing, and I would rather have both than either.
Where I have been
Vietnam
- Most provinces
Europe
- Germany
- France
- Belgium
- Switzerland
South East Asia
- Laos
- Thailand
- Malaysia
East Asia
- South Korea
Thailand was my first trip abroad, followed by Malaysia, Laos, Europe and South Korea. Every place leaves another reason to keep exploring.