Chi Trung Nguyen

Cloud Architect | interim Engineering Manager

Chi Trung Nguyen
Berlin, Germany

Experience

Apr 2023 - Present
1 year 11 months

Staff Software Engineer - Infrastructure

Workpath

  • Owning, designing, securing, maintaining reliability of the cloud based platform environments, increasing developer productivity and growing the infrastructure team horizontally and vertically to 5 engineers
  • Realised infrastructure cost reduction of 50% by utilizing efficient spot instances
  • Improved PE developer efficiency by 15% with survey led development process
Apr 2021 - Apr 2023
2 years 1 month

Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Workpath

  • Halved response time of backend while requests were increasing two fold
  • Moving the product from on premise to native cloud on EKS
  • Educating engineers on development experience best practices and shaping the organization to adopt these in a formal, repeatable way
  • Reduce barriers for engineers to deploy and optimize systems, and actively build bridges between security, development, operations, qa, and customer technical support
  • Responsible for managerial tasks such as 1:1, performance reviews, participating in interview loops, introducing engineering levels
Sep 2018 - Aug 2020
2 years

Infrastructure Security Engineer

Contentful

  • Owning and securing the cloud based content platform production environment
  • Leading, designing and implementing projects across multiple teams such as: secrets management synchronization component as Kubernetes operator in golang, company wide cloud SSO(Okta) roll out across 200 internal apps
  • Responsible for corporate security best practices, employee training and SDLC
  • Management of bug bounty program
  • Conducting job interviews of candidates
  • Supporting ISO27001 implementation by facilitating process and writing policies
Sep 2017 - Aug 2018
1 year

DevOps Engineer

Funke Digital

  • Providing general strategic direction of cloud migration/IT security
  • Migrating production from on premise data center to cloud platform (AWS)
  • Building and Managing Kubernetes cluster
  • Migrating micro services from native execution to container environment
  • Automating infrastructure as code with Terraform, Ansible
  • Building Jenkins multi branch pipeline
  • Building one command dev environment using docker-compose, docker-machine
  • Monitoring system with Grafana
  • Log Aggregation with ELK Stack
  • Conducting job interviews of potential new hirees
Mar 2016 - Aug 2017
1 year 6 months
Berlin, Germany

IT System Administrator/DevOps

Bytepark

  • Planning and execution of VMware ESXi3 to ESXi5 migration
  • Deployment of a Selenium Grid test-environment with different Hosts (Windows/Linux) and WebDrivers (PhantomJS, Firefox, InternetExplorer, WebKit)
  • Designing of the hosting infrastructure with Ansible, based on Docker, Nginx, PHP and MariaDB
  • Container Orchestration(Ansible, Docker Compose), Designing of CI/CD Pipelines with Gitlab
  • Designing and applying security concept for internal IT/Infrastructure/Employees
Apr 2015 - Nov 2017
2 years 8 months

IT Consultant/Full Stack Development

  • adIQ: Analysis and evaluation of the existing database; optimization of queries and structures
  • geoberlin: Full development and design of the geoberlin blueprint download app, Rollout of the Redmine Project Management System
  • JallousDruckhaus: Webdesign and Front End Development for Clients with Ruby(on Rails) and Jekyll
  • Respatex: Update of the old static page into a mobile-responsive website
  • System Administration of aforementioned clients(Web and Database)
Jan 2011 - Mar 2015
3 years 3 months

IT Security Test Analyst

T-Systems

Penetration testing of various Systems, Databases(including Oracle, MySQL, MSSQL), Web Applications and Servers.

Analysis and evaluation of IT-Systems, documentation of security vulnerabilites.

Jan 2010 - Dec 2013
2 years

Software Developer

T-Systems

Development of a tool for statistical analysis out of support ticket data. Implementation as a Joomla Plugin in PHP.

Summary

Owning, designing, securing, maintaining reliability of the cloud based platform environments, increasing developer productivity and growing the infrastructure team horizontally and vertically to 5 engineers Realised infrastructure cost reduction of 50% by utilizing efficient spot instances Improved PE developer efficiency by 15% with survey led development process

Languages

German
Native
Vietnamese
Native
English
Advanced
Spanish
Elementary

Education

Oct 2011 - Jun 2015

Hochschule für Telekommunikation Leipzig

Bachelor of Science · Wirtschaftsinformatik · Leipzig, Germany

Certifications & licenses

VS-NfD Belehrung