Thai Bui
Staff Software Engineer at Self-employed
Kailua, Hawaii, United States
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Top SchoolThai Bui is a Staff Software Engineer with seven years of hands-on experience building low-level distributed systems and backend infrastructure, currently based in Kailua, Hawaii. He has driven large-scale data and search engineering efforts across companies like Optiversal, Twitter, Facebook, and a multi-role tenure at Bazaarvoice where he built declarative metadata, caching, and workflow systems that scaled from single 24GB jobs to 10TB clusters. Comfortable shipping both architect-level designs and pragmatic implementations, he also runs quantitative trading projects independently, applying engineering rigor to markets. His background includes academic research in distributed volunteer computing and anti-spam proof-of-work, reflecting a long-standing interest in novel infrastructure and applied machine learning. Known for accelerating query performance by 3–10x through adaptive caching and for creating vertically integrated tooling to deploy big data platforms, he blends deep systems knowledge with product-focused delivery. Outside work he signs GitHub with a poetic note—“and in this moment, i swear we are infinite”—hinting at a creative, curious approach to engineering.
7 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Portland State University
English, Vietnamese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (25)
golang10
programming-language9
interpreter9
go9
odin8
compiler8
goplus7
google-chrome6
opencv6
hbase6
hadoop6
dockerfile3
aws3
file-server3
react3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
handl3r/blogsite
Jul 2020 - Jun 2024
My IT blog
Contributions:5 PRs, 33 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 11 months
handl3r/proxy-fileserver
Feb 2021 - Jun 2021
Proxy file server integrates with google drive and local file system
Contributions:29 commits, 5 PRs, 3 pushes in 3 months
file-serverfile-systemgoogle-driveproxy
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