Phong Thieu
Ai Goes Brrr at Brickroad
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolPhong Thieu is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with over a decade of experience building and scaling AI-enabled products, developer tooling, and workflow automation. He has repeatedly taken small teams from prototype to production—architecting integrations, compliance-ready systems, and agent-style AI features—while keeping delivery on schedule and teams healthy. As founder of Lab Forty Six and founding engineer roles at Indie Mortgage and Commit.dev, he blends full-stack engineering, infra, and AI model orchestration (Claude, OpenAI, LangChain) to accelerate product velocity. Notably, his products have reached thousands of users and tens of thousands of companies (e.g., Task Reminder trials across Samsung, Walmart, Disney), showing a rare mix of technical depth and commercial impact. Now leading data procurement engineering at Brickroad, he continues to bridge hands-on implementation with strategic roadmap and team mentorship.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Nights & Weekends (S4-S5), Nights & Weekends (S4-S5) at buildspaceBachelor of Applied Science (B.ASc) Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.ASc) Engineering at University of Waterloo
English
Github Skills (200)
bots10
chat10
conversational-ui10
portable10
api10
chokidar10
child-process10
nodejs10
twitter-client10
signature10
frontend10
messaging10
api-client10
sms10
botkit10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
AdeptMind/adept-rest-api-postgres-boilerplate
Jun 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:12 commits in 8 months
AdeptMind/adept-react-redux-boilerplate
Oct 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:3 commits in 1 year 5 months
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