Thao Dinh

Rust Consulting Engineer

Remote

Feb 2026 - Current (9 months)

• Provide independent contract consulting across Rust, embedded systems, systems programming, distributed systems and platform/DevOps, turning ambiguous client requirements into production-grade designs, implementation plans and working software.
• Build and review low-level Rust systems involving async runtimes, FFI boundaries, Linux/Windows internals, memory safety, concurrency, performance profiling and hardware- or kernel-adjacent integration points.
• Support DevOps and production infrastructure work for client projects, including Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, OpenTofu/Terraform, GitLab CI/CD/GitHub Actions, secrets management, observability and cloud/edge deployment workflows.
• Consult on distributed systems and backend in

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Principal HFT Systems Engineer

Batonics AB

Dec 2025 - Jun 2026 (7 months)

• Developed end-to-end quantitative trading and research systems, including high-frequency trading (HFT) platforms.
• Optimized performance and latency to sub-millisecond levels using low-level optimization techniques (SIMD, lock-free structures, CPU pinning).
• Added model checking, property-based testing and fuzzing to ensure correctness and resilience under extreme market conditions.
• Automated environments with infrastructure-as-code, integrating Kubernetes and Terraform with policy-as-code enforcement for governance, safety and repeatable environment provisioning.

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Principal Systems Software Engineer

Koidra AI

Dec 2025 - May 2026 (6 months)

• Owned the end-to-end architecture and delivery of industrial automation and edge-control services, from requirements and system design to deployment, observability and continuous improvement in production.
• Led the migration of a mission-critical IoTHub platform from C# to Rust for RevPi-based Linux PLC deployments, using an FFI-first strategy to replace legacy components incrementally while preserving uptime and customer compatibility.
• Designed and implemented a Rust MCU runtime for Linux-based PLCs and industrial controllers, with per-module control loops, PID/on-off controllers, safety interlocks and REST APIs for hub orchestration.
• Built latency-sensitive user-space real-time control paths on Linux using SCHED_FIFO

Principal Systems Engineer

Rise Labs

May 2025 - Sep 2025 (5 months)

• Profiled and optimized RISE & reth nodes end-to-end (CPU, memory, networking), enabling more stable validator and RPC performance on production networks.
• Integrated HTTP/3 into the RPC stack to reduce tail latency for node operators and API consumers.
• Optimized RPC endpoint latency and contributed improvements back to upstream reth.
• Researched performance bottlenecks and proposed design changes, communicating them clearly in English to a fully remote, multi-time-zone team.
• Worked independently in an Australia-aligned schedule, providing regular written status updates and benchmarking reports without needing close supervision.

Senior Systems Engineer

Seal Labs

Nov 2023 - Apr 2025 (1 year 6 months)

• Designed and implemented core blockchain infrastructure in Rust for a new AVS-based platform integrating with EigenLayer.
• Researched and implemented Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) protocol, enabling seamless asset transfers and data exchange between blockchains; contributed improvements back to Hermes Relayer v2.
• Wrote AVS specifications to integrate with EigenLayer and outlined the AVS architecture for the blockchain platform.
• Implemented the P2P networking layer for Seal AVS using libp2p and custom protocols.
• Built a core indexer library to pull events from Sui blockchain fullnode and write into PostgreSQL for analytics and monitoring.
• Designed and implemented a custom AVS Messaging Protocol to c

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Principal Systems Engineer

Litheum Capital Ltd

Mar 2022 - Nov 2024 (2 years 9 months)

• Spearheaded research, design and development of the P2P networking layer for the Litheum L1 blockchain.
• Drove key architectural decisions and implemented critical low-level components, including revm integration into litheum-core for EVM compatibility.
• Managed Linux administration and DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, observability and production operations.
• Engineered a mobile wallet application demo utilizing Rust FFI and Flutter technologies for cross-platform deployment.

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Blockchain Systems Engineer

SaitoTech

Nov 2021 - Feb 2022 (4 months)

• Designed, implemented and tested core blockchain features and supporting services for the Saito L1 blockchain.
• Created technical documentation and architecture descriptions for new components, improving onboarding and cross-team understanding.
• Conducted software architecture and design reviews to ensure code quality and maintainability.
• Onboarded and mentored new team members, helping them ramp up quickly in a fully remote, async environment.

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Senior Software Engineer / Tech Advisor

Moneycat Asia

Jan 2020 - May 2022 (2 years 5 months)

• Developed backend automation APIs in Flask/FastAPI/Django to streamline internal workflows and partner integrations.
• Set up CI/CD pipelines, logging and monitoring for microservices, improving deployment reliability and incident visibility.
• Built data pipelines using Apache Spark, Pandas and Elasticsearch to centralize operational data across products.
• Designed and grew a data lake to support analytics, reporting and experimentation.
• Implemented data protection and access-control solutions to meet compliance and security needs.

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Backend Engineer

Teko Vietnam

Jan 2019 - Jan 2020 (1 year 1 month)

• Developed automation backend APIs with Flask/Django and integrated 3rd-party APIs for internal tools and partners.
• Set up automated deployment for microservices using Ansible and GitLab CI.
• Designed and implemented services to map owners/teams to resources for better operational visibility.
• Designed and optimized MySQL database schemas and queries for reliability and performance.
• Used Apache Spark, Pandas, Elasticsearch and internal tools (Datafaucet) to develop data pipelines.

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Senior Software Engineer

B2BE GSS Vietnam

Aug 2014 - Dec 2018 (4 years 5 months)

• Developed and maintained generic B2B web portal products used by multiple customer deployments.
• Acted as a central knowledge owner, advising other teams on portal architecture, customization and best practices.
• Built web interfaces enabling customers to manage invoices, purchase orders and transactional documents.
• Migrated legacy JavaScript ES5 codebases to ES6 and created reusable UI libraries for faster development.

Associate Software Engineer → Software Engineer

VNG Corporation

Aug 2012 - Jul 2014 (2 years)

• SDK Admin Tool: Developed functionalities to support and evaluate the working flow of the 24/7 service desk group (PHP, MySQL, MongoDB).
• Monitoring Assistant: Mined alert data from Zabbix logs and centralized alerts to MongoDB; automated alert detection and incident resolution for known issues (C++, Python, MySQL, MongoDB).
• Task Manager: Connected to Outlook email to filter customer requests with defined prefixes; automated task creation and SLA evaluation (PHP, Python, MySQL).

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