Summary
Hung Nguyen is a seasoned engineering leader with nine years of professional experience and a long history in open-source, currently serving as Head of Engineering at Zalopay in Ho Chi Minh City. He has risen through multiple technical and leadership roles at Zalopay—spanning platform, payments core, technical operations, and enterprise architecture—demonstrating a consistent focus on reliable, scalable financial systems. Prior to Zalopay he founded a P2P content distribution startup (PCDN.IO) and led engineering teams at VNG, showing both entrepreneurial drive and hands-on systems design. An active free software contributor and blogger (lazyval.com), he blends deep technical know‑how with product-minded operational leadership. Notably, his background combines platform architecture with real-world payments operations, positioning him to bridge engineering, reliability, and business risk in fintech.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer