ice.breaker Vietnam

From #1 leading e-learning platform in Vietnam to #1 leading online classified website in Vietnam. And, in between 2 x Iron man 70.3. An inspiring conversation with Duy Truong – Director of Engineering at Chotot.vn. In this episode, Truong shares his journey from becoming a manager and building an engineering team, to building and scaling new services and applications. Truong also shares his experience on how and when is the right direction for using microservices. Last by not least, what the Ironman training journey and the racing taught him. Chapters of the episode: 00:45 Career Journey 06:31 Building with Microservices 07:35 Slips into over-engineering 12:00 From Engineer to manager 13:30 Building a company through structure, process, and human 16:45 Managing an engineering team 18:00 Hiring and keeping talent 24:30 From "zero" to IRONMAN 70.3 33:00 Experience failure If you are a builder, Developer, Cloud enthusiast, and looking forward to stepping up to IRONMAN racing, this episode is for you! 

Listen in as we discuss with Khanh Ho – Head of Cloud Center of Excellence at Sovico Group – a leading conglomerate in Vietnam operating in various fields including HDBank, Vietjet, Phu Long and GalaxyOne. Here’s the chapters of the episode: 01:50 Career Journey 03:00 Joining Vietjet 05:31 Becoming a cloud warrior 06:30 Building native program to connect Vietjet's website to Super app WeChat 08:15 Speaking at AWS Re:invent 2020 10:00 Building a cloud center of excellence for Sovico Group 11:50 Engaging with business leaders 14:45 Business leaders and hiring IT talent 16:07 Solving business problems and reaching business leaders 20:00 Working with cloud vendors 21:15 Learning cloud 23:00 Experiencing failure out our new episode featuring Khanh Ho

Ever wondered what it takes to achieve all 13 AWS certifications? Check out my chat with Thanh Nguyen – 13 times AWS certified, 2x Google Cloud, 3x Azure. Thanh has re:Invented himself from a System Admin to a Cloud Architect helping large scale organizations shift from legacy to modern IT landscape with an extensive experience working with financial institutions, Banks & Insurance. Everyone I know on a Cloud Certification Journey has or has had a very personal and different journey. Thanh’s first time working on a computer was during high school, at an internet cafe where is spent most of his free time, learning how to code. Starting hands-on with AWS back then in 2014, Thanh did not engage in his cloud certification journey until 2019 when he felt the need to deep dive and further build his competency, confidence, and practical cloud skills. He only planned to pass few AWS certifications, however, learning cloud is fun and… addictive! With today’s single biggest challenge in IT being the growing Cloud Skills Gap, it turns out to be a healthy addiction though :)

Featured Speaker: Pham Quang Minh, Country Manager @Mambu  Banking has become an industry of extremes as it continues to undergo a massive change at an accelerating pace. Banking transformation is not new, but there is now a heightened urgency for traditional banks to modernize not only their technology but their mindset and culture.  To explore this critical challenge and determine some best practices, Pham Quang Minh, Country Manager for Mambu, join us and share 20+ years of experience in IT, Digital transformation in banks and nonbanks. He shares key do’s and don’ts and lessons learned from banking transformation projects around the world.   Chapter overview:  From 01:17 Career Journey  From 05:18 Main 5 key areas of Digital transformation  From 19:54 What are the main reasons that transformation efforts fall short in some traditional banks?  From 22:22 The role of Technology in Digital transformation  From 26:18 Underserved segments in Vietnam  From 31:58 Experiencing failure and lesson learned Follow Minh:   LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/1208quangminh/  Mambu – https://www.mambu.com/

A Ph.D. turning his 5 patents in Computer Vision and Al into powerful Analytics for brick-and-mortar retailers in Vietnam. Thong is a serial tech entrepreneur and data scientist. Prior to moving back to Vietnam, he founded Arimo, a Big Data company based in California, recently acquired by Panasonic US and ranked as one of the top ten most innovative tech startups in Big Data and AI by Fast Company. With his two co-founders, he started Palexy in 2020 with one obsession: to put the technological potential of Vietnam to use, and shake up the traditional retail market. The startup has bagged US$1 million in a funding round recently. If you are a builder, data scientist, developer, or/and entrepreneur and looking for what's happening in Vietnam.

Hoang is the CEO & Founder of VinHMS, an innovative hospitality solution powered by Vin Group. Prior to that, he founded several startups and joined Amazon Vietnam as their first employee. Hoang has built himself around technology for many years, starting as a developer, studying the cloud as one of the first, back then when just a small group of cloud pioneers.

The ice.breaker is a special podcast series hosted by Samira Kabbour dedicated to builders who are changing Vietnam through Tech.