Dong Huynh
Backend Engineer at iwoca
Southampton, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDong Huynh is a backend engineer and seasoned Python developer with 14 years of experience building production-grade Django applications and scalable ML-enabled systems. He blends academic rigour—holding a PhD and a track record of W3C provenance standard contributions—with hands-on startup delivery, having led teams to launch platforms for carbon attribution and automated decision explanations. Dong has deep expertise in provenance technology (authoring the PROV Python package and maintaining ProvStore) and has applied graph ML to real-world problems, including demonstrators cited by the ICO. Comfortable across infrastructure, DevOps and API design, he has contributed to well-known community tooling such as cookiecutter-django to streamline deployments. At iwoca he continues to bring research-led approaches to product engineering, combining technical leadership with a penchant for reproducible, auditable systems. An understated strength is his ability to translate complex provenance and ML research into practical, production services used by industry and government.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Computer Science, Distinction, MSc, Computer Science, Distinction at University of OxfordPhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at University of SouthamptonBS, Computer Science, First Class Honours – GPA: 86%, BS, Computer Science, First Class Honours – GPA: 86% at University of Natural Sciences, Ho Chi Minh City
Vietnamese
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Github Skills (15)
python10
devops10
django10
dockers9
docker9
sentry9
celery7
gunicorn7
aws6
gcp6
postgresql5
rest-api4
api-rest4
restful-api4
api-design4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cookiecutter/cookiecutter-django
May 2016 - Jan 2020
Cookiecutter Django is a framework for jumpstarting production-ready Django projects quickly.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:36 commits, 2 PRs, 6 comments in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Dong primarily contributed to the configuration and maintenance of the Django project, including updating settings files and WSGI configurations. They updated the project's dependencies and configurations to align with newer versions of supporting libraries like Whitenoise and Sentry. Additionally, the user made changes to documentation and configuration files related to deployment and the overall project setup. The user's work demonstrates a focus on ensuring the project's functionality, deployment, and integration with third-party services.
herokupythonboilerplatedjangoproduction-ready
openprov/ROSProv
Jan 2020 - May 2022
Contributions:9 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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