PDFForge
26 PDF tools where files never touch a server — privacy is the architecture.
Thăng Long — 昇龍 — the ascending dragon
● Product Engineer
I work at the collision of design and engineering — where most people pick a side.
Scroll — ink to grid
An AI-powered B2B prospecting platform, used daily inside FPT — rebuilt to survive the death of its core data vendor.
95%
cheaper than per-seat prospecting tools
“Build for the failure case first — vendors will die on you.”
An essay grader whose scores land as close to a human examiner's as two examiners land to each other.
99%
cheaper per grading than a human tutor
“Knowing a metric's limits is part of the work.”
Four more shipped — different domains, same instinct.
26 PDF tools where files never touch a server — privacy is the architecture.
Paris ↔ Vietnam flight finder tagging every route by airspace safety. The failure-first thesis, again.
UX audit delivered as a full design system: tokens, components, docs.
A learning PWA built as a complete design system, Nothing-OS aesthetic, end to end.
Most people pick a side — design or engineering. I never could. I build at the seam between them, because that's where the interesting problems live. I can take something from a user interview to a deployed, AI-powered product without a hand-off losing the thread.
Before the AI work I ran cross-regional UX research at FPT — 15 participants across Europe and Asia. And my first product was growth: four years running digital for my family's restaurant in Germany — 3.8 to 4.5 stars, 1,400+ reviews. Shipping means moving a real metric.