vinh.pham_

> principal software engineer

Engineering systems that scale.

13+ years building platforms, leading teams, and scaling distributed systems from startup to enterprise.

./projects

> ls ./projects

Things I've built

Side projects, tools, and experiments — from platform engineering to full-stack apps.

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SIGN & SCAN

Make digital documents look wet-ink signed & scanned, fully offline on your desktop.

demo

More Projects

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Package Recorder

Professional video recording solution with QR code integration, cloud storage, and intelligent management for your packaging operations.

demo

> git log --oneline

The journey so far

A timeline of roles, growth, and the people I've worked with along the way.

NOW

CVS HEALTH

Current2

Staff Software Engineer / Lead·2021 — Present

Led architecture and delivery of a multi-service re-platform of legacy AS/400/COBOL payment systems into cloud-native Java/Spring microservices on GCP, supporting large-scale transaction workloads with explicit availability and latency SLOs.

  • Designed and implemented resilient, event-driven data pipelines (Dataproc, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, BigQuery) to power analytics and operational telemetry, accelerating critical reporting from batch-oriented cycles toward near real-time.
  • Drove end-to-end API design for internal integrations (REST, message-based), including schema evolution strategies, contract testing, and backward-compatible rollouts.
  • Established observability standards (structured logs, metrics, tracing, dashboards, alerting) using Splunk and Dynatrace; improved incident detection and reduced time-to-diagnosis through actionable instrumentation.
  • Owned technical direction for a cross-team rebate platform initiative; led and mentored an 8-engineer team, partnering with product and operations to sequence the roadmap, manage dependencies, and align on SLAs.
Java 17+Spring BootREST APIsOracle/DB2/SAP HANARabbitMQDockerKubernetes/GKEAirflowDataprocPub/SubBigQueryJenkinsArgo CDGitHub ActionsSplunkDynatraceTerraform
“Vinh is an excellent engineer and teammate - he is always great to pair and collaborate with because he has a curious mind and a desire to do things the right w...”
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Sean Taylor · Principal Engineer at CVS

LAZADA (ALIBABA GROUP)

Principal Software Engineer·2019 — 2020

Served as principal engineer for re-platforming a regional e-logistics system used across 5 Asian countries, evolving a legacy system toward Java/Spring microservices and event-driven communication.

  • Architected and implemented core services with high-availability and fault-tolerant patterns (idempotency, retries, circuit breakers, graceful degradation).
  • Reduced end-to-end transaction latency 4× (20s → 5s) for high-traffic flows (5M+ transactions/day) by introducing streaming pipelines (Blink/Flink, Airflow) and optimizing database access.
  • Led multi-country collaboration, aligning teams on API contracts, data models, and operational practices through design reviews and knowledge sharing.
  • Contributed to observability and capacity planning by defining service-level metrics (p95 latency, error budgets) and supporting load-testing before peak events.
JavaSpring BootMyBatisMySQLHBaseRabbitMQRocketMQElasticsearch/OpenSearchFlink/BlinkAirflowDockerGit

BMG AMI

Co-Founder & CTO / Software Architect·2015 — 2019

Co-founded and scaled a SaaS/IoT platform for property management from idea to 11 production products and a 28-engineer organization.

  • Led architecture and implementation of multi-tenant web and mobile applications for operators and staff, integrating IoT telemetry with operational dashboards.
  • Built engineering standards (code review, design docs, releases, incident response) and mentored tech leads to improve ownership and delivery quality.
  • Partnered with operations, sales, and customers to translate workflows into product features, prioritizing reliability and usability.
  • Recognized as Techfest 2017 winner (Vietnam Ministry of Science and Technology) and awarded 2nd prize at Ho Chi Minh City Creative Awards.
JavaVertxPythonDjangoAngularGraphQLPostgreSQLAzureIoT HubDockerJenkinsReact/React Native

MOBILIZE INC

Senior Software Engineer·2017 — 2017

Remote

  • Re-architected and optimized a legacy big data application; delivered new backend features and presented technical proposals directly to the CTO.
JavaSpring BootHibernateKafkaStormAWS EC2MongoDBTeamCity

NAKIVO INC

Senior Software Engineer·2015 — 2016

Remote

  • Delivered major product features end-to-end (backend + frontend) and resolved ambiguous requirements through iterative design and implementation.
JavaSpringHibernateExtJSProtobufLiquibaseAWS EC2

Earlier Experience

Senior/Java Engineer·2013 — 2015

  • Built web services and integration layers across automotive, banking, insurance, hospitality, and media domains; introduced Agile practices and improved code quality through mentoring and reviews.

> cat ./about.md

A bit about me

I'm a Principal Software Engineer specializing in platform engineering and distributed systems. Over 13+ years, I've architected cloud-native microservices, led cross-functional teams, and scaled systems handling millions of transactions daily.

I co-founded a SaaS/IoT startup, growing it from zero to 28 engineers and 11 production products. I've held principal-level roles at Alibaba Group (Lazada) and currently drive platform modernization at CVS Health.

I hold a Master's in Computer Science with a specialization in Data Science and actively use GenAI tools like Cursor and Claude in my daily workflow.

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