Summary
Cuong Nguyen is a Lead Engineer with 13 years of experience building full-stack web and cloud-native products, currently leading engineering at Tekai in Helsinki. He bridges frontend and backend with hands-on expertise in React, Typescript, Python, Elixir and containerized CI/CD across AWS, GCP and Azure, having shipped features for startups and enterprise clients alike. A former co-founder and game-engine developer, he brings a rare mix of product sensibility and hobbyist game programming—having built a 2D WebGL/Electron engine and character generator—into pragmatic engineering choices. Known for clear documentation, user-focused UX and mentoring peers, he consistently shapes maintainable systems and helps teams adopt the right technologies. Comfortable moving between languages and paradigms, he thrives on tackling hard problems and translating them into reliable, well-tested services.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Software Engineering at Oulu University of Applied Sciences
High School Diploma Physics, High School Diploma Physics at Hanoi-Amsterdam High School for the Gifted
Vietnamese, English, French