Trong Pham Tran Duc

Hi 👋, I'm Trong, a software engineer in Ho Chi Minh City. Right now I'm at VNG Games, working on the platform behind player rewards. Before that came just over three years at Hasaki, on the internal systems the whole company worked in every day.

Most of my work sits underneath — where the data moves and things have to be right. But I still like finishing the interface myself, because you only really see what a product feels like in someone's hands when you follow it all the way through.

I care more about how a system ages than how new it is: whether the next person can read it, and whether they're afraid to change it. I keep scope honest, say something early when I hit a wall, and treat a boring deploy day as a good sign.

Outside of code I spend a fair amount of time teaching — the full-stack program at VTC Academy since 2024, and before that coaching student teams through their projects. I'm also working through a Master's at HCMUT alongside the day job.