Curly Nguyễn

Curly Nguyễn

Nguyễn Hoàng Đức Trung

Full-Stack Developer · Data Engineer · Indie Hacker

I build products end-to-end — from data pipelines to full-stack web apps to AI-powered tools. Passionate about shipping fast, building in public, and solving real problems with code.

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Experience

Indie Hacker & Founder

Curly.ng

2023 – Present·Ho Chi Minh City

Building and shipping indie products. Full-stack development with Next.js, TypeScript, and modern tooling. Creating developer tools and open-source projects.

  • Built CoreDoc — AI-powered documentation search engine
  • Developed CLI tools for workflow automation
  • Running an SSG-only Next.js platform with 95+ Lighthouse scores
  • Active in the Build Stuffs Hacker House community
Next.jsTypeScriptBunHonoDrizzle ORMLLMs

Senior Data Engineer

Enterprise

2021 – 2023·Ho Chi Minh City

Designed and built data infrastructure for analytics and ML teams. Led migration of legacy ETL to modern data stack.

  • Architected data lakehouse on AWS (Glue, Athena, S3)
  • Built CI/CD pipelines for dbt models with Airflow orchestration
  • Reduced data processing costs by 60% through optimization
  • Mentored junior engineers on data engineering best practices
PythondbtAirflowAWSSparkTerraform

Data Engineer

Fintech Startup

2019 – 2021·Ho Chi Minh City

First engineering hire. Built the data platform from scratch — ETL pipelines, analytics dashboards, and ML data access.

  • Built company's first data warehouse from scratch
  • Created real-time analytics pipeline serving business dashboards
  • Implemented data quality monitoring and alerting systems
  • Collaborated with ML team on feature engineering pipelines
PythonPostgreSQLRedisDockerAWSGrafana

Projects

Skills & Stack

Languages

TypeScriptPythonSQLGoBash

Frontend

ReactNext.jsThree.jsTailwind CSSshadcn/ui

Backend

Node.jsBunHonoFastAPIPostgreSQL

Data

dbtAirflowSparkAthenaGlueS3

DevOps

DockerTerraformGitHub ActionsAWSVercel

AI/ML

LLMsRAGAnthropic APIEmbeddingsVector DBs

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science

University

Focus on Software Engineering & Data Systems

2015 – 2019

Interests

Indie HackingBuilding in PublicOpen SourceData EngineeringAI/LLM ToolsCommunity BuildingTechnical Writing