Truong Giang
Hanoi, Viet Nam
Summary
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RockstarTruong-giang Vu is a software engineer with a decade of experience building reliable web and backend systems, currently modernizing Bloomberg Tax products. He combines academic rigor from a Master's in Computer and Information Science at UPenn with hands-on contributions to high-profile WordPress projects—fixing core Meta Box and Sensei LMS issues that improved data handling, uploads, cloning, and lesson counting. His background includes work on social security systems in Vietnam and research in differential privacy and federated learning, reflecting a focus on privacy-aware, mission-critical software. Comfortable across full-stack and backend roles, he also brings practical AI exposure from a competitive global bootcamp where his team placed second. Based in Hanoi and active in open source, he blends production-grade engineering with research curiosity and an eye for robust, user-facing integrations.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
plugin-development10
wordpress10
code-optimization10
php10
javascript10
metaboxes10
lms10
wordpress-plugin9
custom-fields9
jquery8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/sensei
May 2019 - Sep 2020
Sensei LMS - Online Courses, Quizzes, & Learning
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 8 PRs, 18 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Truong primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the Sensei LMS plugin. Their work involved fixing notices on various pages, such as the Order Courses and Grading pages, and correcting the singular/plural forms of "Lesson". They also addressed coding standards, such as output escaping and removing unnecessary `intval()` calls, and implemented a function for counting lessons within modules. The user interacted with PHP files related to courses, lessons, and widgets.
lmssenseiphpwordpressteaching
wpmetabox/meta-box
May 2017 - Jun 2018
The best plugin for WordPress custom fields and custom meta boxes
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:47 commits, 35 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Truong primarily focused on bug fixes and improvements to the Meta Box plugin's functionality. They addressed issues related to saving text_list fields, image/file uploads, and cloning features, indicating a focus on data handling and user interface interactions. The contributions also involved changes to the core cloning mechanism and fixing issues with quicktag functionality, suggesting involvement in the plugin's foundational elements. Further work included refactoring and enhancing the Google Maps integration.
metaboxeswordpresswordpress-pluginwordpress-developmentwordpress-php-library
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