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

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.

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.

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.