Khoa Tran
Backend Technical Lead - SmartID at Grokking Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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Top SchoolKhoa Tran is a backend technical lead with 8 years of experience building and modernizing high-performance services in Vietnam, currently leading SmartID backend at NAVER Vietnam. He focuses on SOLID design, OOP, and performance tuning—having cut search API latency from 600ms to 100ms, driven migrations to Kubernetes, and maintained >87% test coverage to support 100% SLA. He mentors engineers with the goal of accelerating their careers (and “eventually outshining” him), while sharing expertise in AI and model context protocols internally. Prior roles span fintech and consumer platforms where he revived legacy codebases, boosted code quality dramatically, and implemented cost-saving tooling and caching strategies. Practical, hands-on, and research-minded, he also investigates networking and OS topics through lab work, blending deep systems knowledge with pragmatic delivery.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Information Technology at HCMC University of Technology and Education
English, Vietnamese
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Github Skills (191)
ui-components10
spring-jdbc10
spring-security10
maven10
react-components10
commons10
mybatis10
api10
sql10
powershell10
mapper10
typescript10
java10
sql-generation10
spring-boot10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
TranNgocKhoa/hellodoctor-microservices
Sep 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:14 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
201DevC/201-Backend
Nov 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:18 commits, 16 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
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