About Me

Thuan Tran Vinh

Senior Backend & Distributed Systems Engineer

I'm a backend-focused software engineer specializing in high-performance APIs, distributed systems, data pipelines, and production reliability. Over the past several years I've worked across fintech and healthcare technology domains, collaborating with distributed teams in Asia, the Middle East, and Australia.

Most of my work lives in the backend: designing Kafka-based data pipelines, tuning ORM queries from 4-second bottlenecks to sub-second responses, building real-time WebSocket notification systems on AWS, and deploying ML inference services to SageMaker. I care deeply about reliability, observability, and the kind of code quality that holds up under production load.

I was promoted to tech lead at PTN Global, where I managed a 5-person team while working as an individual contributor — running planning, code reviews, and knowledge transfer alongside Australian data scientists and clinicians.

I'm currently open to senior remote roles in backend engineering or distributed systems. If you're building something that needs to be fast, reliable, and scalable, I'd like to talk.

Core Positioning

Backend-focused engineer specializing in high-performance APIs, distributed systems, data pipelines, and production reliability.

Skills

Backend

PythonDjangoDjango REST FrameworkFastAPISQLAlchemy

Distributed Systems

Apache KafkaCeleryRedisWebSocketsAWS SQS

Databases

PostgreSQLMySQLCouchbaseAlembic

Cloud & DevOps

AWS LambdaAWS API GatewayAWS SageMakerAWS S3AWS RDSDockerCI/CDGithub ActionsJenkins

Observability

Elastic APMOpenTelemetryELK Stack

Testing & Quality

Unit TestingIntegration TestingpytestCode Review