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Tien Dung Nguyen
Senior FullStack Software Engineer (Golang, ReactJS, NodeJS) @ NFQ.
Tien Dung Nguyen is a results‑driven software engineer who combines deep technical expertise with an entrepreneurial mindset. Based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, he has advanced from a junior backend role to a Senior Full‑Stack Engineer at NFQ within five years while concurrently pursuing a Bachelor of Information Technology in DevOps at RMIT University Vietnam.
Professional background and credentials
Tien Dung Nguyen specialises in building and optimising scalable web applications, APIs and microservices. At NFQ, he currently leads end‑to‑end development of high‑traffic e‑commerce platforms and administrative systems, using Go, Node.js and React. He has implemented microservice architectures with gRPC communication, integrated React front‑ends with Go back‑ends and delivered complex CMS solutions. His projects have achieved measurable business impacts, such as a 25 % increase in conversions and 40 % reduction in page‑load times for an e‑commerce platform, a 40 % reduction in administrative task time through a car‑admin system, and a 15 % boost in customer retention via CMS enhancements. He is also recognised for mentoring junior engineers and fostering best practices in full‑stack development.
Earlier NFQ roles included Standard++ Backend Engineer and Standard Backend Engineer, where he optimised services to cut server costs by 25 %, implemented customer‑review systems boosting sales by 18 %, and developed personalised recommendation features that raised average order value by 25 %. He also interned at Accenture Vietnam in 2020, gaining hands‑on experience in cloud infrastructure (Google Cloud and Azure), VM and server configuration, WordPress/.NET deployment, network topology design, Terraform and CI/CD pipelines. Before focusing on software engineering, he worked as an Executive Assistant at Kelly Serviced Apartment (2018–2020), managing IT systems and customer services, and collaborated on an edX‑based e‑learning platform for SAT math tutors.
Tien Dung Nguyen’s technical toolkit spans Go, Node.js, React, Express.js, Docker, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ and API gateways such as KrakenD. He is comfortable with Linux and Windows administration, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and DevOps practices like Terraform scripting and GitHub Actions. His education at RMIT (expected completion in 2025) has reinforced his foundation in databases, programming (Python, Java), software engineering, cloud computing and project management; he previously attended Monash University and holds an International Baccalaureate diploma. He has earned certifications in AWS Cloud Foundations, JavaScript fundamentals, C# programming, SQL, CSS/HTML and achieved a perfect PTE Academic score (90/90).
A tech and business enthusiast, Tien Dung Nguyen is active in student clubs focused on fintech, innovation and entrepreneurship and is motivated by projects that solve complex challenges, improve user experiences and drive business value. He enjoys mentoring others and continuously expanding his skill set, making him a strong full‑stack engineer with a strategic, results‑oriented mindset.