Hello, I'm

Phuoc Nguyen

Software Engineering Manager

Passionate about building products and developing excellent engineering teams

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Featured Posts

Process Tax: When Agile Teams Are Busy With Rituals Instead of Work

How many hours does your team spend each sprint just 'telling each other where things are'? Convention first, Automation next, AI last — here's how I design world-class PO-Dev-QC workflows.

Feb 15, 202616 min read

Don't Use a Scalpel to Peel an Apple

AI Agent is a sharp scalpel. Cron job is a fruit knife. Both can cut. But use them wrong and one wastes money, the other costs lives.

Feb 15, 202610 min read

3 AM, 47 Alerts, and Lessons About AI in Monitoring

That night Tien received 47 alerts at once. No one knew where to start. Until the team learned: some things cron jobs must handle, some things only AI can process - and never confuse the two.

Feb 10, 202610 min read

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Java

Spring Boot

Vert.x

Quarkus LangChain

AI Agent

Kafka

RabbitMQ

MySQL

Redis

Cassandra

Docker

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ArgoCD

Prometheus

Grafana

Jenkins