Hi, I'm Thinh Dang 👋
Engineering Manager and hands-on technical leader with 8+ years building and scaling backend systems. I set technical direction, grow engineering teams, and deliver high-reliability platform infrastructure.
What I Do
- Define technical strategy for backend and platform systems — from architecture decisions to production operations
- Architect and operate distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven pipelines at scale
- Hands-on in Go and Python: writing, reviewing, and owning critical systems end-to-end
- Champion observability, clean architecture, and engineering practices that raise the whole team's baseline
Current Focus
- Setting technical direction and growing senior engineers into tech leads
- Driving platform reliability improvements and reducing toil across the delivery pipeline
- Integrating AI tooling into engineering workflows to amplify team throughput
- Deepening expertise in Kafka-based event streaming and high-throughput data pipelines
Featured Projects
| Project | Description |
|---|---|
| spring_grpc_http | gRPC and HTTP API integration with Spring |
| livekit-dashboard | Dashboard work for LiveKit operations |
| personal-api-gateway | API gateway project with reusable backend patterns |
Connect
- Blog: thinhdanggroup.github.io
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/thinh-dang
- Email: thinh.dang2@trustingsocial.com