Viet-hung Nguyen is a pragmatic engineering leader and self-taught developer with 10 years building web products and shipping secure, user-focused software. Currently Team Lead for Geneious Biologics at Dotmatics, he blends hands-on full‑stack development with security-minded product leadership, having progressed from front-end maintenance work on the popular open-source Boostnote to leading teams. A Rust enthusiast who “fights the borrow checker,” he contributes to web projects and is even building a browser from scratch in Rust, reflecting deep systems-level curiosity. His background spans automated business workflows, IoT, and translation/localization work in UX, demonstrating an ability to move between low-level engineering and product polish. Based in Auckland, he pairs community-driven open-source experience with practical delivery across startups and enterprise environments.
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Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:108 commits, 78 PRs, 2 branches in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Viet-hung primarily contributed to the front-end of the Boostnote Legacy application by modifying the user interface and fixing bugs. Their commits demonstrate work on theming, language selection, and handling user interactions through key presses and mouse events. The changes made included fixing typos, resolving eslint errors, and removing debugging statements. The user also added a feature to expand text snippets.
Boost Note is a document driven project management tool that maximizes remote DevOps team velocity.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:15 commits, 10 PRs, 54 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Viet-hung primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the Boost Note application. Their work included adding and updating language translations, specifically Vietnamese, and incorporating language controls in the header. They also focused on improving the user interface, as demonstrated by adjustments to the preferences modal and the addition of front-matter export functionality in the markdown editor. Furthermore, the user addressed UI-related issues like table alignment and keyboard shortcuts in the markdown previewer.
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Viet-hung Nguyen - Team Lead, Geneious Biologics at Dotmatics