Hien Nguyen

Summary

 I’m a normal but cool engineer who always wants to solve problems with simple think. I have over 10 years experience working in IT industy in various positions, mostly in software development. I’m interested in technology and love to work in the innovative organizations that are building things to help the world transformed.

Experience

2017 – Present 

I have been Agile Coach at VNDirect, VNPT-Net, Viettel, VTC.

2012 – PresentAgile Vietnam, Hanoi Scrum

I co-founed Hanoi Scrum in 2010 but wasn’t active until 2012 when I came back and became a board member. In begining of 2014, Hanoi Scrum and Agile Vietnam were merged together as the biggest Agile community in Vietnam and I’m also in a board.

Agile Vietnam was found as a non-profit ogranization by a mission of promoting Agile methodology under Vietnam community. By that, we are doing by:

  • Organize the conferences such as Scrum Day (2012, 2013), Agile tour (2011 – 2015), Scrum Gathering (2015), Agile Conference (2016)
  • Organize workshops and training courses such as Lean Mindset, CSM, CSPO …
  • Orgainze monthly meetup
  • Run the program: Scrum Coffee, Agile4U
  • Translate books: Scrum Guide (scrum.org), Scrum and XP from the Trenches (Hennrik Kniberg, ISBN: 978-1-4303-2264-1)
  • Other on-demand events such as XP Day, meetup…
July 2013 – PresentPlanday

I joined Planday, a Danish startup, as a first Vietnamese engineer. Planday provides a SaaS workforce scheduling service and aim to become the number 1 player in this domain by

raising funds to serie B after growing 100% year by year in both company size and customers. In Planday, I’m doing some roles:

  • Solution Engineer
    • Design and build the solution for new API while optimising the existing system to serve over 100.000 concurrent paid users over the world.
    • Design solution for app in iOS and Android.
  • Agile Coach
    • Coach teams for working and being Agile.
  • General Manager
    • Do ‘everything’ for building the good working environment such as hiring, training, designing working method… etc. I love doing these works where I build the really Agile organisation with flat-management promoted. There were 4 strong teams with 20 colleagues in 2.5 years when I hired a new general manager and just focus on a techinical works.

Now I’m Mobile Engineering Manager.

September 2010 – June 2013FPT University

I have been teaching in Information Technology Specialization department, subject head of IT Applicaiton in Enterprise, e-commerce. I also have been teaching other subjects such as Introduction to Computing, Programming with Java, Programming with C#…

I have been a co-coach of ACM/ICPC and Information Technology Olympiad teams for 3 years, coach of Information Technology Security teams for 2 years.

March 2009 – September 2010FPT Aptech

I have been in charged as instructor and also building the course content for 2nd-year subjects.

April 2009 – April 2010Applistar Vietnam

I have worked as a mobile developer and sometimes as project manager in the oursourcing projects such as Voice Morph Pro, Secret in Dream…

June 2007 – July 2008NextG Solutions

I have worked as a developer and sometimes as project leader in a consulting company for some projects of big customers such as Traphaco, Yamaha, Salecore, FBI…

January 2007 – July 2007VC Corp

I have worked as a developer in the large projects: P2P file sharing system, TTVN chatting system

EXTRA ACTIVITIES

PUBLICATIONS

 

Agile Y

The first Agile book in Vietnam, covers A àY about Agile methodology from new software

development method to building effective team and organization.

http://gurunh.com/agile-y/

ISBN-13: 978-604-943-452-5

Licence: 4254-2016/CXBIPH/2-48/TrT

Publisher: Tri Thức

Translator / Editor

 

Security+ Guide to Network Security Fundamentals, Fourth Edition

Author: Mark Ciampa, Ph.D

SBN-13: 978-1111640125

Murach’s SQL Server 2008 for developers

Author: Bryan Syverson and Joel Murach

ISBN-13: 978-1-890774-51-6

Databases: A Beginner’s Guide

Author: Andrew J. Oppel

ISBN: 978-07-160847-3

Network Know-How

Author: John Ross

ISBN: 978-1-159327-191-6

EDUCATION

  • University of Engineering and Technology – Vietnam National University, Hanoi
  • Master of Software Engineering, 2009 – 2012
  • Bachelor of Software Engineering, Distinction, 2005 – 2009

CERTIFICATES

Certified Scrum Professional, Scrum Alliance

Certified Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance

CCNA, Cisco