Senior Blockchain Engineer

Nguyen Nguyen

  • 11+ Years Experience
  • 10+ Blockchain Networks
  • 200+ TB On-chain Data Processed
  • Managed infrastructure with 100+ validator nodes, handling up to 2000 TPS
  • Built 3 blockchain explorers from scratch
EthereumSolanaTypeScriptGoSoliditySystem DesignScalable Systems
Nguyen Nguyen

📍 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam - UTC + 07

Available for Remote

About

Professional summary

Blockchain engineer focused on scalable systems, clean architecture, and production reliability. Collaborates closely with product, QA, DBA, and DevOps teams.

  • Strong expertise in blockchain protocol, smart contract development, integrating backend systems with multiple blockchains.
  • Good knowledge in Blockchain, DeFi, demonstrated ability to translate product requirements into scalable, secure system designs and analyze technical trade-offs.
  • Experienced in building production-grade public blockchain, decentralized applications, distributed systems interacting with blockchain networks.
  • Proven ability to design and implement complex on-chain and off-chain systems, optimize performance, and handle production issues in high-throughput environments.

Domains

  • Blockchain / Web3: Blockchain Protocol, Data Indexing, DeFi, DEX Aggregator, Decentralized Applications
  • E-commerce
  • Trading System

Skills

Tech stack

My core technologies, frameworks, and engineering tools.

Top skills

Core strengths

What I reach for most when designing systems, shipping features, and keeping production healthy.

EthereumSolanaSystem DesignMicroservicesDistributed SystemsTypeScriptGoSQL/NoSQL

Full breakdown by area

A

Architecture

  • Microservices
  • Distributed Systems
  • Event-driven Architecture
  • Event Sourcing
  • Domain-Driven Design
  • Database Sharding
  • High Availability (HA)
  • Horizontal Scaling
B

Blockchain

  • Blockchain Protocol Development
  • Consensus
  • Smart Contract Development & Integration
  • Ethereum
  • Solana
  • DeFi
  • Dex Aggregator
  • Data Indexing
  • Web3.js
  • Ether.js
  • Hardhat
  • Foundry
B

Backend

  • System Design
  • API Design & Implementation
  • REST API
  • GraphQL
  • gRPC
  • WebSocket
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • Go
  • C++
  • PHP
C

Cloud, DevOps & Testing

  • AWS
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • CI/CD
  • Git
  • Jest
  • Mocha
D

Databases & Cache

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • ClickHouse
  • Elasticsearch
  • Cassandra
  • Redis
  • Memcached
F

Frontend

  • React.js
  • Next.js
  • Vue.js
M

Messaging & Realtime

  • Kafka
  • RabbitMQ
  • Redis Pub/Sub

Experience

Work experience

My professional experience and key contributions.

Senior Blockchain Engineer

Birdeye·Hanoi, Vietnam

April 2024 – February 2026

Highlights

  • Designed and implemented streaming data pipelines to ingest, process and transform on-chain data into structured, queryable formats
  • Designed backend system to process and manage 200+ TB of blockchain data across 19 blockchains, supporting analytics and real-time applications at scale
  • Developed high-performance APIs and WebSocket services delivering low-latency data to client applications
  • Improved system reliability by handling edge cases in real-time processing and data pipelines
  • Optimized infrastructure strategy for performance, cost and scalability

Technologies & tools

EthereumSolanaJavaScriptRabbitMQRedisMongoDBClickHouseElasticsearchBackend System Design & ImplementationEvent-driven ArchitectureMicroservicesDatabase Sharding

Blockchain Lead

Ninety Eight (formerly known as Coin98)·Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

July 2023 – April 2024

Highlights

  • Managed infrastructure for 50 Node Validators of Viction public blockchain, VicScan (blockchain explorer), VicMaster (Core Governance DApp)
  • Led the development of scalable backend systems and services, delivering production features for a public blockchain
  • Designed backend architecture for data-intensive applications, ensuring reliable and efficient data access
  • Operated and maintained high-availability infrastructure supporting production systems under heavy load
  • Provided technical leadership through architecture design, code reviews, engineering best practices

Technologies & tools

EthereumJavaScriptRabbitMQRedisMongoDBBackend System Design & ImplementationEngineering LeadershipMicroservicesSystem DesignEvent-driven Architecture

Senior Blockchain Engineer

Pandora Network·Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

November 2022 – June 2023

Highlights

  • Built a high-performance DEX aggregator with real-time routing, achieving top-3 aggregation performance in the market at the time
  • Designed and implemented smart contracts (Solidity) to execute swaps and integrate with multiple DeFi protocols, ensuring secure and efficient on-chain transaction execution
  • Optimized routing algorithms to determine optimal execution paths under dynamic liquidity and pricing conditions
  • Integrated backend services with on-chain components and external systems to enable reliable and efficient transaction processing

Technologies & tools

EthereumJavaScriptNestJSGraphQLRedisPostgreSQLSolidityDeFiDex AggregatorBackend System Design & Implementation

Tech Lead

Neon Labs·Remote

August 2022 – February 2026

Highlights

  • Led the development team to build user-friendly block explorer for NeonEVM blockchain
  • Designed indexing pipelines to process and transform large-scale data into queryable formats
  • Designed and implemented backend API for high traffic system
  • Researched and integrated new blockchain protocol and techniques
  • Coordinated frontend, backend teams, provided technical, roadmap leadership

Technologies & tools

EthereumNode.jsRedisMongoDBHardhatWeb3.jsBackend System Design & ImplementationEngineering LeadershipEvent-driven ArchitectureSystem Design

Senior Blockchain Engineer

TomoChain Labs·Hanoi, Vietnam

November 2018 – July 2022

Highlights

  • Contributed to the development of distributed systems and core infrastructure for a production-grade blockchain platform operating with 150+ validator nodes
  • Designed and implemented backend components supporting transaction processing and system coordination across a network with 2-second block times and throughput up to 2,000 TPS
  • Designed and implemented smart contracts for Governance Voting Dapp
  • Built and maintained data services and APIs enabling efficient access to blockchain data
  • Designed, built, operated a blockchain explorer platform, ensuring stable production performance while reducing infrastructure and service costs by over 80% compared to third-party solutions
  • Operated and optimized high-availability infrastructure, ensuring stability and performance under production load
  • Collaborated on system design, performance optimization, production issue resolution

Technologies & tools

EthereumJavaScriptGoDistributed SystemsDecentralized ApplicationsBlockchain ExplorerDecentralized ExchangeSoliditySmart Contract Development & IntegrationConsensusRedisMongoDBBackend System Design & ImplementationEngineering LeadershipSystem DesignEvent-driven ArchitectureMicroservices

Software Engineer

ZALORA Group·Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

February 2016 – July 2018

Highlights

  • Developed and maintained backend services for high-traffic e-commerce platforms serving millions of users across web and mobile applications
  • Launched the ZNOW feature, reaching 5% of Singapore’s active customer base, with subscribers increasing order frequency by 300% and average order value by 11%
  • Released an online exchange and return module, helping reduce customer service workload and operational costs
  • Improved development workflows, increased code quality, introduced unit testing and Test Driven Development (TDD) practices within the team
  • Mentored new engineers, performed code reviews, contributed to growing the Vietnam engineering team from 1 to 8 members

Technologies & tools

PHPMySQLMemcachedBackend Development

Software Engineer

TMA Solutions·Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

December 2014 – January 2016

Highlights

  • Built backend systems for network monitoring solutions
  • Processed real-time network metrics and data streams
  • Worked with networking protocols and system-level performance

Technologies & tools

C++Backend Development

Education

Academic & Early Career

Academic background, thesis work, and early professional experience.

Education Background

Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology

Computer Science (Honors Program)

Sep 2010 - May 2015

  • Grade: Very Good

Internship

Software Engineer (.NET)

Datalogic

June 2014 – Sep 2014

Software Engineering

  • Introducing Manufacturing Report Problem System to alert incidents of production area to Engineering team as soon as possible (send email, enable alert light in production area)
  • Introducing Yield Monitoring Application to monitor status of production line and export reports

Internship

Software Engineer (.NET)

PETECHIM

June 2013 – Sep 2013

Software Engineering

  • Work with 3 other teammates to introduce a Customer Order Management system(Web service + Web portal + .NET application) meet business process of the company
  • Responsible for fully developing a component of system (Web portal) : collect requirement, design, coding, test, deployment

Projects

Personal Projects

On-chain Transaction Decoding Infrastructure

Blockchain Infrastructure

On-chain Transaction Decoding Infrastructure

On-chain transaction decoding infrastructure that transforms raw blockchain transaction data into meaningful user action

Scope & technologies

EthereumSolanaETLData PipelineData TransformationREST APIWebSocketRedisMongoDBRabbitMQEther.js
Trading Indicator

SDK

Trading Indicator

JavaScript SDK to provide technical trading indicator values based on major crypto currency exchange

Scope & technologies

JavaScriptSDKTradingTechnical IndicatorCandle-stick Pattern
DEX Swap SDK

SDK

DEX Swap SDK

JavaScript SDK for token swaps on any DEX

Scope & technologies

JavaScriptSDKAMMDex AggregatorTransaction Signing
New Liquidity Pool Notifier Bot

Telegram Bot

New Liquidity Pool Notifier Bot

Telegram channels which notifies new liquidity pool for multiple blockchain: EVM and Solana

Scope & technologies

JavaScriptTelegramAMMEthereumSolanaBSCBasePolygonArbitrumOptimism
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Articles

Writing & Publications

Technical articles and blog posts on blockchain, backend systems, and software engineering.

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