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Nguyen Chi Cong

AI-First Engineering Manager · CTO · Solution Architect · PhD Candidate

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnamchicong115@gmail.com+84-96492-5885linkedin.com/in/chicong115github.com/chicong115

Professional Summary

  • •AI-First Engineering Leader — founding team @ PhoenixDX Vietnam, building an org of senior AI experts, architecting Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) and autonomous AI pipelines for full-scale digital transformation.
  • •10+ years of software development expertise spanning application development, cloud infrastructure, big data/ETL, and cross-border operations (Vietnam, Singapore, France, Japan, Hungary).
  • •PhD Candidate specializing in Collaborative AI (AI-AI & AI-Human Interaction) at RMIT University.
  • •6+ years Solution Architecture — enterprise-scale systems, presales engineering ($1M+ deals).
  • •100TB+/month big data pipelines across BigQuery, ClickHouse, Redshift, ETL/ELT.
  • •7+ years leading and scaling engineering teams (2 → 70+ members) across 5 countries.
  • •Founded Egitech Group: 50+ game titles, 20+ enterprise projects, 1M+ downloads.

Professional Experience

Engineering Manager & Founding Team — PhoenixDX Vietnam
Mar 2026 – Present
HCMC, Vietnam
  • •Founding team member building an AI-first engineering organization from the ground up — leading the entire Vietnam team and establishing the AI engineering culture
  • •Lead a team of senior AI experts (10–20 yrs experience, ex-NAB, SAP, MoMo, Binance, Pyco, VinAI) — both AI-skilled engineers and dedicated AI engineers
  • •Architect Multi-Agent Systems (MAS): agent orchestration, agent conflict resolution, and agentic AI pipelines for autonomous software delivery
  • •Drive AI-powered digital transformation — AI-driven legacy migration of 100+ repos into microservices, Angular 7 → modern React frontend, fully automated by AI
  • •Build Elasticsearch-based rule management & RAG knowledge base for enterprise knowledge automation
Software Engineering Manager — OPSWAT
May 2025 – Feb 2026
HCMC, Vietnam
  • •Led Vietnam engineering division for MetaDefender MFT — 11 engineers (2 Dev + 1 QA squad), co-managing 26 globally (VN + Hungary + Americas)
  • •Drove architectural decisions, QA standards, CI/CD best practices (trunk-based dev, feature flags, ArgoCD)
  • •Interfaced with VP of Product for roadmap execution; presales engineering for enterprise deals (ITAR, CMMC, GDPR)
  • •DORA: Deploy multiple/day, lead time <2hrs, MTTR <30min, CFR <5%
Founder, CEO & CTO — Egitech Group
Jun 2021 – May 2025
HCMC, Vietnam
  • •Founded and scaled enterprise software agency from 2 co-founders to 70+ headcount
  • •Clients: IBM, Singpost, banking institutions (SEA). 20+ projects, >85% retention. ODC model.
  • •SellnShip: Built fulfillment platform (.NET Core, React, PostgreSQL, AWS)
  • •Game Studio: 50+ titles, 1M+ downloads, 10–20K DAU (Unity, Firebase)
  • •Lead Architect & presales engineering — C4/UML proposals, effort estimations
Co-Founder & CTO — Agfovi
Jun 2024 – Feb 2025
HCMC, Vietnam
  • •Agri-Tech AI startup — computer vision for automated quality inspection (YOLO v5, >95% accuracy, <50ms edge inference)
  • •RMIT research collaboration — contributed to 2 academic papers on AI in agriculture
  • •Deployed prototype for 3 pilot farms in Da Lat
Lead Vietnam Squad / Solution Architect — TasConnect
Aug 2023 – Jun 2024
HCMC, Vietnam
  • •Led Vietnam squads building Supplier & Invoice modules for enterprise procurement platform
  • •Improved team velocity +30%, reduced production bugs −40%
  • •Top performing squad in completed user stories per sprint
Senior Solution Architect — FPT Software
Sep 2022 – Sep 2023
HCMC, Vietnam
  • •Secured mega-deals ($1M+ USD) via end-to-end architecture proposals (C4, NFR analysis, cost modeling)
  • •CI/CD pipeline automation across 2,000+ repositories for SHAW (telecom)
  • •Authored multi-tier SA training program — trained 50+ engineers
  • •Led WMS platform architecture (microservices for inventory, fulfillment, logistics)
Software Engineering Manager — Air360
Jun 2021 – May 2022
Hybrid (Vietnam / France)
  • •Managed distributed teams across Vietnam, France, New Caledonia, Japan (4 time zones)
  • •Re-architected 100TB+/month pipeline: PostgreSQL → ClickHouse/BigQuery (sub-second on billions)
  • •.NET Core 2.1→6.0 upgrade (strangler-fig): +35% throughput, −20% memory
  • •Migrated to Kubernetes (AWS EKS), 99.95% uptime SLA, Datadog observability
CTO & Lead Software Engineer — Modoho
Jun 2019 – Jun 2021
HCMC, Vietnam
  • •Designed complete Prop-Tech SaaS from scratch — 6 microservices (ABP Framework, .NET Core)
  • •Full-stack: .NET Core + Angular + React Native. 12+ services containerized via Docker.
  • •Scaled team from 2 to 12 engineers. Code review gates, CI/CD via Jenkins.
DevOps Team Lead — StarHub
Oct 2017 – May 2019
Singapore
  • •Managed VARICENT commission system (IBM Cognos BI) — ETL for millions of records/month, 4-hour batch SLA
  • •Migrated Cognos 8→10 + Varicent to cloud with IBM Canada — zero data loss
  • •Automated regression testing — reduced manual QA by 60%
Full-stack Developer — Restaff (House of Norway)
Jun 2015 – May 2017
HCMC, Vietnam
  • •Built OnixWork: Web (ASP.NET + Knockout.js) + Desktop (WPF) + Android (Java) + iOS (Objective-C)
  • •B2B compliance platform for Norwegian Oil & Gas — audit trails, offline sync on offshore platforms

Education

PhD Candidate — Computer Science (Collaborative AI) — RMIT University, Melbourne
2026 – Present
Executive MBA — Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand
2023 – 2024
MSc Computer Science — University of Bordeaux, France
2019 – 2021
BEng Software Engineering — VNUHCM — University of Science
2010 – 2014

Certifications

  • •AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
  • •AWS Certified Developer – Associate

Technical Skills

Backend: .NET Core 6–8, Node.js, Python, Java (Spring Boot), ABP Framework
Frontend: React, Next.js, Angular, Tailwind CSS
Data: BigQuery, ClickHouse, Redshift, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, MongoDB
Cloud & DevOps: AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, ArgoCD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions
Architecture: Microservices, CQRS, DDD, Event-Driven, C4/UML, Hexagonal, Serverless
AI/ML: TensorFlow, PyTorch, YOLO v5, OpenCV, TFLite, Collaborative AI
Leadership: Team Scaling (2→70+), Cross-border Mgmt, Agile/Scrum, Mentoring (50+ engineers)

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