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Son Nguyen

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I build scalable ML platforms, AI services, and recommendation systems from infrastructure to production.

Japan
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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to build and scale production ML systems, combining strong infrastructure practices with practical AI services such as recommendation, generation, and real-time model applications.

I'm a Senior MLOps Engineer at ZEALS in Tokyo, building the system side of ML applications. Previously at MoMo, I designed and built a Kubernetes-based machine learning platform from scratch, reducing ML model onboarding from two weeks to two days and maintenance costs by 75%.

I've delivered AI services across product generation, product recommendation, video-call AI, lip synchronization, and scoring systems. At MoMo, I also built a graph-based friend-ranking service for Vietnam's largest e-wallet, supporting roughly 40,000 monthly transactions with p99 response times under 100ms and 99.9% uptime.

I've led platform and product work at Pique and engineering teams at Kaopiz, using cloud infrastructure, microservices, search, and recommendation technology to turn ML capabilities into reliable client-facing products.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

ZA
Current

Senior MLOps Engineer

ZALS

Jun 2025 - Present (1 year 3 months)

Senior MLOps Engineer at ZALS, focusing on machine learning operations and infrastructure.

ZEALS logoZE
Current

Senior MLOps Engineer

Jun 2025 - Present (1 year 3 months)

Worked as Senior MLOps Engineer at ZEALS.

plugilo logoPL

AI Engineer

Nov 2024 - May 2025 (6 months)

• Lead the development of AI services like product generation, product recommendation.
• Help to plan to migrate services from VM based infraructure to container based infrastructure to save cost and improve scalability.

Castalk logoCA

AI Engineer

Jan 2024 - Nov 2024 (10 months)

• Responsible for development and performance optimization for AI models in video-call
• Responsible for the enhancement and maintenance of lip-sync technology and related tools

MoMo (M_Service) logoMM

Senior Lead Software Engineer

Nov 2021 - Jan 2024 (2 years 2 months)

• Designed and built a machine learning platform from scratch based on K8s.
• Optimized time to onboard new ML models from 2 weeks to 2 days, and 75% the cost of maintenance by applying MLOps practices.
• Optimized the computation cost for model training and data processing by 85% by leveraging spot instances.
• Achieved 99.9% availability SLI by building a monitoring and alerting system for our s

MoMo (M_Service) logoMM

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2021 - Nov 2021 (5 months)

Using graph-based methods, develop a advanced friend ranking service used in wallet to wallet money transfer screen and home screen of Vietnam largest e-wallet application - MoMo, contributed to approximately 40,000 transactions per month
• Performed efficient preprocessing of voluminous raw data, applying cutting-edge graph-based algorithms to compute the friend ranking scores. The data scale enc

Pique logoPI

Product & Platform Lead

Jun 2020 - Jun 2021 (1 year)

• Automated the integration of personalized recommendation engines into clients’ systems by developing an end-to-end recommendation platform using TypeScript and Azure’s services.
• Expanded client base by integrating our recommendation platform with partners like MoEngage and Haravan.

Pique logoPI

Senior Software Engineer

Dec 2019 - Jun 2020 (6 months)

• Led the development of a similar item recommendation engine and employed Elasticsearch module for the search engine for the largest online store pharmacy chain in Vietnam.
• Implemented a novel search & suggestion box and seamlessly integrate the search engine into the existing website. This strategic enhancement led to a remarkable 250% surge in daily search queries and a substantial 45% increa

Kaopiz Software Co.,Ltd logoKC

Project Manager / BrSE / TeamLeader

Jun 2019 - Dec 2019 (6 months)

• Lead a team building online scoring and online examining system based on PHP, VueJS and OCR

インサイト株式会社 Co., Ltd. logoCL

Software Engineer

Oct 2017 - Jun 2019 (1 year 8 months)

• Undertook the responsibility of maintaining and advancing the ASP and DMP modules of a large-scale affiliate advertising system for both advertisers and partner websites. With backend was developed using technologies such as SpringBoot, SQL, and AWS services (DynamoDB, Redshift...) and frontend was developed using AngularJS.
• Proficiently maintained and developed message-based chat applications

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

HT

Hanoi University of Science and Technology

Engineer's degree, HEDSPI

2012 - 2017

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