Experience
8 yrs
BERLIN · AVAILABLE REMOTE
I build products that turn AI's efficiency into outcomes that compound.
$ whoami
Linh Phung Hoang — Software Engineer & Product Builder. Eight years full-stack: a 25,000-user innovation platform, enterprise systems for 70+ brands, and my own shipped SaaS.
$ ./status --now
shipping prototype → production in days, not quarters
Linh Phung Hoang — Software Engineer & Product Builder. Eight years full-stack: a 25,000-user innovation platform, enterprise systems for 70+ brands, and my own shipped SaaS.
$ ./status --now
shipping prototype → production in days, not quarters
stats — engineer/linh-phung-hoang
Users built for
25k
Enterprise brands
70+
Based
Berlin
// 00_the_thesis
Software got cheaper to build. That changes who wins.
For most of my career, shipping was the bottleneck. That bottleneck is mostly gone — and speed is only leverage if you can aim it.
Eight years across a 25,000-user platform, enterprise systems and my own SaaS taught me where returns actually compound — in the unglamorous parts. Auth that doesn't break. Pipelines that deploy themselves. Data models that hold under load.
AI didn't replace the engineering judgment. It made judgment the whole game. I build the foundations well, then use AI to move fast on top of them — that's how efficiency turns into returns, not just more output.
// 01_the_stack
The toolset, end to end.
Eight years of production work — frontend through infra, with AI layered on top.
frontend/ui · state · styling
Next.jsReactTypeScriptAngular 4→18TailwindNgRxZustandShadCN
backend/apis · services · data
NestJSNode.jsGraphQLHasuraPostgreSQLFirebaseREST
data & infra/ci/cd · cloud · pipelines
DockerGitHub ActionsNxBigQueryOpen Telekom CloudVercelSupabase
ai/rag · agents · embeddings
Vercel AI SDKLangChainpgvectorOpenAI embeddingsRAGtool-use
native & tooling/desktop · mobile · testing
TauriSwiftSQLiteApple MDM APICypressGatsbyJSNuxtJS
// 01_building_now
Corporate-venturing software, idea to live workspace.
01
ekipa · Lead Developer · 2026
VentureKit
A toolkit for running corporate-venturing programs end to end — from defining an innovation challenge to a validated pilot: scoping the problem, scouting and matching startups, guiding the engagement, and producing the business case a board needs to decide on scaling. The structure, milestones and audit trail enterprises expect, in one workspace.
Next.jsTypeScriptGraphQLPostgreSQLTailwind
venturekit.ekipa.de ↗
● live
02
ekipa · Lead Developer · 2026
Innovation Ambassadors
One workspace for internal corporate innovation. Employees submit ideas, ambassadors score them, and the innovation team decides — audit-ready from intake to funded initiative. It replaces the usual sprawl of email threads, spreadsheets and sticky notes with a single accountable pipeline.
Next.jsTypeScriptNestJSPostgreSQLTailwind
innovation-ambassadors.ekipa.de ↗
● live
// 02_selected_work
A decade of shipping.
2017 — 2025 · Co-Founder & Lead Developer
ekipa — Open-Innovation Platform
Built, migrated and grew the platform to 25,000 users, hosting 200+ open-innovation projects with 70+ brands — BMW, Samsung, Huawei, Deloitte. Shipped v1 in Angular + Firebase, migrated to a Hasura GraphQL backend, refactored for SSR, built a NestJS admin panel, and owned CI/CD from Docker Compose to GitHub Actions.
Angular 4→18NgRxHasura / GraphQLNestJSNxBigQuery
2025 · AI Engineer
Internal AI Content Workflow1st place
AI content-automation product built with Telekom IoT during a 6-month open-innovation program — first place with a team of two. Built a RAG system over marketing content with pgvector and OpenAI embeddings, the chat interface and tool-use logic, a mention system to reference indexed sources, and an editor with smart autocomplete.
Next.js 14Vercel AI SDKLangChainpgvectorShadCN
2022 · Lead Full-Stack Developer
TechBoost Telekom — Matchmaking Platform
Digital matchmaking connecting startups with enterprise partners inside Telekom's incubator. Built a dedicated auth service with permission control and invitations, applied Telekom's corporate design, and deployed to the Open Telekom Cloud to meet on-premise requirements.
Angular 9Hasura / GraphQLNestJSOpen Telekom Cloud
2019 — 2020 · Frontend Developer
Mankido — POS Device Management
Back-office to manage 1,000+ POS iPads via Apple's MDM API — enroll and configure devices before shipping, with a drag-and-drop builder to remotely manage apps and environments.
Angular 8Apple MDM APICypress
// 03_independent_products
Solo, shipped.
Indistractable
live · 50+ usersContext-aware screen-time app for macOS — blocks distraction by what you're actually doing, not just a timer.
Tauri · Next.js 15 · Swift · SQLite · Supabase
Immolanding
archivedListing-optimization web app for German real-estate agents — generate sharper exposés faster.
Next.js · TypeScript
// run
Have something that needs to ship?
Tell me what you're building. If it's a fit I'll come back with a plan — usually inside a day.
▸ hello@codevagabond.com