Summary
Hải Thanh is a Lead Software Engineer in Ho Chi Minh City with 12 years of experience and more than six years driving backend systems at Zalo. He specializes in scalable, event-driven server-side architectures—designing group chat, cloud messaging, and system message features that handle high daily message volumes. His hands-on path from fresher to lead included research and production work with Kafka, Docker, microservices, and message-queue technologies, plus mentoring junior engineers. He combines strong academic grounding in IT (Ho Chi Minh University of Technology, GPA 8.04) with deep operational knowledge of backup/restore, search, and real-time notification systems. Known for a continual learning mindset (“Learns more, contributes more”), he focuses on pragmatic, reliable solutions that expand product capabilities. An understated strength is his track record of iterating on large-scale messaging features while keeping systems maintainable and observable.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, 8.04, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, 8.04 at Ho Chi Minh University of Technology