Independent Builder
Building an ecosystem
where every tool serves every other.
Backend developer from Vietnam with 7 years shipping Node.js and AWS at scale.
Now building an indie game dev ecosystem — tools, games, and content pipelines
where every piece feeds the others. Also available for select freelance work.
What I'm building
Projects
Wildtide
An indirect auto-city builder where you govern through policies instead of placing buildings manually. Imagine WorldBox meets Frostpunk, wrapped in a peaceful Terra Nil aesthetic. It packs hex terrain, faction AI, wave survival, and a working economy. It's a chaotic early prototype right now, but under very active development.
Bookie AI Video Pipeline ↗
An end-to-end pipeline that turns books into narrated video content for Bookie (a Vietnamese reading community I co-founded). n8n orchestrates 10 workflows across the full production chain — research, storyboarding, scripting, AI visuals, TTS, and Remotion video assembly. Three ways to run it: CLI, n8n's web UI, or a Google Sheets control panel. Pick your interface, hit go, come back to a finished video.
Agent Hub ↗
My personal infrastructure to keep Claude Code sane. It manages global skills, plugins, hooks, and bootstraps projects across a messy multi-repo workspace. Effectively, it turns Claude from isolated per-project islands into a unified, connected assistant that actually remembers my preferences.
Track record
Past work
36 hrs → 2 hrs
Matching System Optimization
A classic nightmare: a nightly matching job was taking 36 hours to chew through data, completely breaking our SLAs. Instead of throwing expensive servers at the problem, I dug into the query planner, rewrote the core algorithm from scratch, and added targeted indexes. The job now casually finishes in under 2 hours using the exact same infrastructure.
Manual → automated
AI-Powered Content Pipeline
The content team was stuck manually drafting and scheduling posts across three platforms, eating up 5 hours a week. I built an n8n pipeline that slurps up raw notes, formats drafts via the Claude API, and queues them for human review before auto-publishing. The team now spends 30 minutes clicking 'Approve' and 4.5 hours doing actual creative work.
Available for hire
Services
Backend Architecture & APIs
I design APIs, optimize databases, and wrangle AWS infrastructure. After 7 years of building production systems, handling 15M+ record datasets, and slashing processing times by 95%, I've developed a sixth sense for exactly where things are going to break. Let's fix them before they do.
AI Integration & Automation
I connect your scattered tools and automate the soul-crushing repetitive work. Whether it's wiring up the Claude API, OpenAI, n8n, or custom Agentic workflows, I build pipelines that actually execute in the real world. Forget the AI hype—I just build the plumbing that works.
Available for select projects on Upwork and direct contracts. Get in touch →
Background
About
I'm a backend developer based in Ho Chi Minh City, currently building my way out of traditional employment. After 7 years of wrestling with Node.js and scaling AWS infrastructure, I decided it was time to build things for myself. Now, I'm piecing together my own indie game dev ecosystem—where every tool, game, and content pipeline I write inevitably ends up serving the others.
Nine years ago, I co-founded Bookie , a Vietnamese reading community. These days, I've built an AI video pipeline for it—n8n orchestrates 10 workflows that turn books into fully narrated videos, triggered from CLI, a web UI, or a Google Sheet (because manual editing is for the birds). I'm also developing Wildtide, an indirect city builder in Godot, and hacking on Agent Hub to make Claude Code actually useful across multiple projects without losing its mind.
I'm a systems thinker by day, an unapologetic city-builder addict by night, and I'm expecting my first kid in April 2026. Send sleep tips.
Backend
AI
Game Dev
Video
Tools
Get in touch
Let's build something
I'm currently available for select freelance gigs on Upwork or direct contracts.
If you want to collaborate on game dev tools, AI pipelines, or anything that automates away boring work, I'm all ears.
I usually reply within 24 hours (unless I'm catching up on sleep before the baby arrives).