PortfolioHo Chi Minh City2026

Nguyen Tan Dat · Senior Software Engineer

I build the payment systems behind everyday finance.

Senior Software Engineer at Zalo. After hours I make Peepcraft, a character creator, and write about building software.

Selected work

Systems that move money

6 projects
0code changes per new partner

Zalo · 2026

Multi-partner loan platform

Loan management and payments with a configuration-driven integration framework: a new partner is onboarded without code changes.

  • Java
  • Spring Boot
  • Kubernetes
~35%of total profit

Zalo · Fiza · 2025–2026

Finance mini-apps

Four revenue-generating mini-apps with Mcredit, CUB, F88 and VIB, each serving 12,000 to 30,000 users a month.

  • Spring Boot
  • CI/CD
  • Partner APIs
~30Kdaily users

Zalo · Fiza · 2025

Paybill bill payments

A new bill payment flow in the Paybill mini-app, integrated with a payment partner.

  • Payments
  • Integration
+100%partner revenue

Zalo · 2026

Scaling a partner service

Maintained and scaled a service to meet new demand for a lending partner.

  • Scalability
  • Observability
−75%monthly translation cost

Nexon Dev Vina · 2023–2025

Internal translation platform

Replaced third-party translation software with an in-house platform.

  • Platform
  • Cost
$320Klicensing fees removed per year

Nexon Dev Vina · 2023–2025

Localization workflow tool

A workflow manager for localization across more than 100 Nexon games.

  • Workflow
  • 100+ games

Projects

Things I make after hours

A row of people drawn in the Open Peeps style that Peepcraft builds with

Peepcraft

A character creator: build a person from hair, faces, bodies and poses, set them in a scene, and export it.

  • Open Peeps parts with a dice per tab
  • Whole figures and things for a scene
  • Four themes
  • SVG and PNG export

Open PeepcraftSupport Peepcraft on Ko-fi

About

Backend engineer for fintech products

Most of my work sits where money moves between companies: lending partners, bill payment providers and banks. I care about the parts that keep it boring in the best sense: correct, observable, and easy to extend to the next partner.

Based in
Ho Chi Minh City
Focus
Payments, lending, partner integrations
Education
Bachelor of Computer Science, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (GPA 3.5 / 4)
Languages
Vietnamese, English (TOEIC 850)

Activity

What a year of work looks like

Contributions · sample data

Now

Senior Software Engineer at Zalo: a multi-partner loan platform, the Liobank mini-app, and the plumbing every service shares.

Stack

  • Java
  • Spring Boot
  • NestJS
  • React
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Kafka
  • Redis
  • SQL
  • REST APIs
4+years in production fintech
4revenue mini-apps shipped
100+games on one localization tool
850TOEIC reading & writing

Experience

Where I have worked

  1. Jul 2026 – now

    Senior Software Engineer · Zalo

    • Cross-cutting concerns across services: central persistent log volume, system migration, instrumentation, a customised K8s Helm chart.
    • Architected a multi-partner loan management and payment platform; built the Liobank mini-app; run operations for the CAKE mini-app.
  2. Mar 2025 – Jul 2026

    Software Engineer · Zalo

    • Owned the backend lifecycle of the Fiza finance mini-apps: Spring Boot services, Kubernetes, CI/CD.
    • Delivered 4 revenue-generating mini-apps (~35% of total profit) and a new Paybill flow (~30K daily users).
  3. 2023 – 2025

    Software Engineer · Nexon Dev Vina

    • Built an internal translation platform (−75% cost per month) and a localization workflow tool for 100+ games ($320,000 a year saved).
    • Top performance rating, 2023–2024.
  4. Jun – Aug 2022

    Web Developer Intern · FPT Software

    • Led a team of 7 on a training program management system in React.

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