BACKEND ENGINEER / CLOUD-NATIVE SYSTEMS

Systems that read clearly, run reliably, and age well.

Software Engineer - Ahamove, G1. Full-time since Feb 2026. I build Go services, cloud-native infrastructure, and backend workflows with product context.

Ho Chi Minh City, VN

01 / ROLE SNAPSHOT

Proof before polish

A recruiter should understand the current role, core stack, and strongest projects in the first 30 seconds.

ROLE

Ahamove G1

Full-time since Feb 2026 — backend product delivery.

SHIP

Go services in production

Gin APIs across TANCA, ROBO-HI, and current Ahamove backend work.

SCALE

Kubernetes operated daily

Homelab cluster plus production deployments on AWS.

DATA

Queues, stores, object I/O

RabbitMQ, Redis, Postgres, MongoDB, MinIO, MQTT pipelines.

02 / EXPERIENCE

A concise engineering ledger

Feb 2026 - Present

Software Engineer, G1 - Ahamove

Full-time engineering role after the February transition, focused on backend product delivery and operational reliability.

  • Work on backend services where correctness, API contracts, traceability, and production behavior matter more than surface polish.
  • Bring production Go, queueing, database, and cloud-native experience into a larger product engineering environment.
GolangBackend APIsOperational reliabilityProduct delivery

Oct 2025 - Dec 2025

Backend Developer (Part-time) - ROBO-HI VIET NAM

Worked on robot dispatcher communication and AWS-backed services for IoT command handling.

  • Improved MQTT-based communication by enhancing connection handling for multiple robot clients and command flows.
  • Evaluated ROS 2 Humble and ROS 1 as alternatives to Redis Pub/Sub for robot message exchange.
  • Contributed to distributed command dispatching logic for multiple robot types and fleets.
AWSMQTTNode.jsTypeScriptGolangROS 1ROS 2

Aug 2024 - Sep 2025

Backend Developer (Part-time) - TANCA.,JSC

Built and maintained Golang microservices for a large-scale HRM system after an intensive production onboarding program.

  • Developed scalable Gin APIs for HRM domains including talent management, attendance, leave, integrations, and payment-package availability.
  • Designed talent evaluation flows with AI-assisted career path generation and multi-level performance matrices.
  • Built partner-specific CSV export and integration features for enterprise clients including Xi Mang Ha Long and Decathlon.
  • Worked with MongoDB, Jenkins CI/CD, Rancher, RabbitMQ, Swagger/OpenAPI, Docker, and Kubernetes in production-adjacent workflows.
GoGinMongoDBRabbitMQJenkinsRancherKubernetes

03 / PROJECT EVIDENCE

Projects shown as working systems

SMAP project preview

CASE 01 — GRADUATION THESIS · HCMUT 2025-2026

SMAP — Distributed social analytics platform

SITUATION
Capstone project for the HCMUT Computer Science degree. Build a social analytics platform that ingests crawl events, enriches mentions with NLP and AI, and turns raw social data into searchable insights.
STACK
Go · Python/FastAPI · Kafka/RabbitMQ · Redis · Postgres · MongoDB · MinIO · Qdrant · K8s
SERVICES
identity-srvproject-srvingest-srvanalysis-srvknowledge-srvnotification-srvscraper-srvshared-libsweb-ui
OUTCOME
9 microservices split by domain, with event pipelines, vector search, object storage, trace propagation, and homelab Kubernetes deployment. Defended June 2026.
Kanban project preview

CASE 02 — KANBAN · 2024

Real-time collaboration board

SITUATION
Multi-user task board needing live state sync, file storage, persistence, and predictable collaboration behavior.
STACK
Go · Next.js · PostgreSQL · MinIO · WebSocket
OUTCOME
Backend events bridge socket clients to stored state with conflict-safe ordering and S3-compatible attachment handling.

Caption Flow

CLI · Apple Silicon

CASE 03 — CAPTION FLOW · 2026

Apple Silicon video subtitle + summary pipeline

SITUATION
Automated video processing pipeline that transcribes audio with Whisper, burns subtitles via FFmpeg (VideoToolbox), and summarizes transcripts into Vietnamese DOCX using DeepSeek with Gemini fallback.
STACK
Go · FFmpeg · whisper.cpp · DeepSeek · Gemini · Metal
OUTCOME
Watch, batch, and summarize modes with hardware-accelerated encoding on Apple Silicon, rate limiting via key rotation and exponential backoff, structured logging, and automatic temp cleanup. Under 0.3x realtime on M4 Pro.

04 / STACK

Stack grouped by surface

LANGUAGES

Go · TypeScript · Python

BACKEND

Gin · FastAPI · Next.js · REST · gRPC

INFRASTRUCTURE

Kubernetes · Docker · Terraform · Ansible · AWS

DATA & MESSAGING

Postgres · MongoDB · Redis · Kafka · RabbitMQ · MinIO · Qdrant · MQTT

EDUCATION

HCMUT · Computer Science · Sep 2022 - May 2026

ENGLISH

TOEIC 847

SYSTEMS

Linux · pfSense · VPN · ESXi · Harbor · Nginx

Direct line for backend work.

nguyentantai.dev@gmail.com

linkedin.com/in/ngtantai2104 · Ho Chi Minh City, VN · 0369169678