Work with me
I build technology companies, and I have run one end to end.
Twenty years in engineering and management, most of it with full profit and loss ownership. I am currently open to both full-time leadership roles and consulting engagements. This page is here so you can decide whether a conversation is worth your time.
Where I am actually useful
Your delivery team has to grow fast, and quality is slipping
Hiring is the easy part. Keeping code review, architecture decisions and onboarding coherent while headcount doubles is the hard part. I have run this exact problem at speed and know which controls are worth the overhead and which ones just slow everyone down.
You are entering a market where you have no operating history
Entity setup, banking, local hiring, contracts, and the first delivery team — all of it before revenue arrives. I have opened three overseas markets on three continents, and the failure modes are more about sequencing and cash than about technology.
Your product needs to become data-capable, not just feature-rich
Adding a model to an existing product rarely fails on the model. It fails on the data path underneath it. I work on the architecture first, then the analytics and machine learning that the architecture makes possible.
Track record
Full career history on the resume page.
Founded a technology company and grew it past 100 people and beyond $1M in profitable annual revenue, without outside funding. Every payroll came from the previous month's revenue, which shaped every decision that followed.
Quadrupled the technical delivery team to meet client demand, while keeping delivery quality intact. The interesting part is not the hiring rate — it is what had to be standardised beforehand for it to survive.
Established a fully operational company from scratch, covering the legal, financial and operational setup, then staffed and ran it.
What I am not
I am not the right person for pure research work, for a role with no access to the people doing the building, or for an engagement that needs someone to sign off on decisions already made. I am most useful where the technical and the commercial questions are the same question.
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Tell me what you are trying to do and where it is stuck. I read everything and reply within a few days. Vietnamese or English, both fine.