Summary
Kai Thienly is a Senior Engineer based in Ho Chi Minh City with 10 years of experience building scalable, reliable systems for startups and tech firms. He specializes in product-focused engineering, having designed search and recommendation services, enterprise micro-applet platforms, and AI-integrated infrastructure. At Tiki he led architecture and developer tooling that supported millions of users and over 1,000 developers, and more recently has been building AI-powered CXM platforms and enhancing AI infrastructure. Kai writes about LLMOps, software architecture, and system reliability, signaling a strong bias toward knowledge sharing and operational rigor. He combines hands-on implementation—Elasticsearch, GraphQL, Typescript, CI/CD—with an attention to detail that improves long-running platform reliability. Outside day-to-day work he hustles as a public-facing engineer, turning deep technical topics into practical guides for peers.
10 years of coding experience