Drake Vu is a software engineer with a decade of experience building high-throughput, production-grade systems across backend, mobile, and firmware domains. Currently on Pinterest’s Trust and Safety team, he previously drove major voucher and performance initiatives at Shopee that cut discount costs by $300k+/month and scaled APIs to handle 500k+ QPS. A Golang and Flutter enthusiast, he introduced company-wide Go blueprints, generics-based libraries, bi-temporal data models, and distributed rate limiters—demonstrating both architecture-level thinking and hands-on delivery. He also led a 15-engineer Flutter team and has a background in low-level systems work (kernel modules, OpenSSH modifications) and IoT firmware, giving him a rare full-stack-to-kernel perspective. Based in Toronto, he combines pragmatic performance engineering with a track record of shipping impactful cross-team products.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree Automation Engineer Technology/Technician, Engineer's degree Automation Engineer Technology/Technician at Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology
High School Natural Sciences, High School Natural Sciences at VNU-HCM High School for the Gifted
Contributions:4 PRs, 16 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 8 months
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