@rurimeikoBackend · Reverse engineering · Security

I teach naughty apps to behave.

★ teaching mode: on

Nguyễn Trần Hoàng Long — backend engineer writing C#, Rust and JS. I reverse-engineer apps, dig into security, and run the servers (and local AI) for a university.

Nguyễn Trần Hoàng Long standing in a field at dusk

“If I can't take it apart, I don't trust it.”

Born 16 October 2003. Backend developer: C#/.NET at work, Rust and JavaScript for everything else. My favourite hobby is reverse-engineering apps and finding out how they break, which is how I ended up porting Zalo to Linux. I also run the servers (and the local AI) a university depends on. Off the keyboard it's music, movies and the occasional Rubik's cube.

Born
16 Oct 2003
Based
Can Tho, VN
Now
M.Eng, weekends
Off-keys
Rubik's sub-50s · music
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01Personal

Selectedwork

02NCTU

ProductionsystemsIbuildandrun

Software Center, Nam Can Tho University

I build and operate internal systems for a university: the portals students and staff use every day, and the infrastructure behind them. Details and source stay inside the organization; this is a reference, not a link.

Reference only · Sep 2025 – present

~4,900
pushes
30+
internal systems
13
months

Headline strength · Local AI

Local AI stack for the university

Set up and run the on-prem inference platform the whole center shares: a chat LLM on dual-GPU vLLM, CPU-served embedding and reranking for Vietnamese RAG, document OCR and speech, a chat UI, all exposed through a secure tunnel. One API, many projects.

  • Dual-GPU LLM serving with 256K context and continuous batching
  • Vietnamese-tuned embedding + reranker for retrieval
  • Document OCR, speech, and ticket-assist pipelines
  • RAG and AI assist wired into the student and staff portals

Systems I shipped and keep running

My DNC portal

Lead

Student and staff portal: web PWA plus native Android (Compose) and iOS (SwiftUI).

React · Kotlin · SwiftUI

Admission system

Build & operate

Online admissions: registration, review, and payment flow end to end.

React · CodeIgniter · Docker

EMS

Desktop & API

Education-management suite for staff and registrars, shipped as a desktop app over a C# API.

Tauri · React · C#

Canvas LMS + NCTU theme

Deploy & theme

Self-hosted Canvas with SSO, a lightweight institutional theme, and video tracking.

Ruby · SSO · MinIO

AI API server

Build

REST backend for RAG, document extraction, and ticket assist over the local models.

FastAPI · Python

3D campus map

Build & optimize

An interactive 3D campus on the web, compressed and tuned to stay smooth.

WebGL · glTF

University System Core

Architecture

A microservice foundation: API gateway, identity, notifications, event bus, observability.

Kong · Kafka · Postgres

Realtime person tracker

Build

Webcam person detection and tracking with YOLO, emitting movement commands for robotics.

Python · YOLO

03Background

Studying&building

Education

  1. 2026 – 2028In progress

    M.Eng, Software Engineering

    Can Tho University

    Research-based master's, studied on weekends alongside full-time work.

  2. 2021 – 2025Graduated

    B.Eng, Software Engineering

    Can Tho University of Technology & Engineering

    Four years of software engineering; graduated 2025.

Experience

  1. 2025 – Present

    Backend Developer & IT Engineer

    DNC Software Center, Nam Can Tho University

    • C# / ASP.NET Core + EF Core APIs for the university training system, used by every student and staff member daily.
    • Deploy and keep 6+ production servers running, and fix problems fast when they break.
    • Set up and run local AI servers, including for business customers.
  2. 2022

    Collaborator

    NextGen Vietnam JSC — Dai Viet Group

    • Built a batch tool to remove objects from many images at once, using the open-source LaMa inpainting model.
04Timeline

HowIgothere

  1. 2026

    Running a university's AI and portals

    Stood up the local inference stack, shipped native My DNC apps, and ported Zalo's native modules to Linux on the side.

  2. 2025

    Joined the software center

    Started building internal systems at Nam Can Tho University: the student portal, admissions, and course registration.

  3. 2024

    Moved to the edge

    Servers on Cloudflare Workers, Telegram bots on MongoDB, and a driver bridge so the two could talk.

  4. 2023

    First things people used

    NFC Keeper on Android, a CTUT course-review extension, a shared streaming site, and a working Hackintosh.

  5. 2022

    Hello, world

    A Discord bot, a translator and a calculator I proudly labelled useless. All Python.

  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • Bun
  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • Rust
  • Tauri
  • Kotlin
  • Swift
  • Electron
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Cloudflare
  • GPU / vLLM
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • Linux

Let's build something that holds up.

Have a bug nobody can fix, a system to build, or an interesting engineering problem? Send a direct dispatch — it reaches my Telegram in seconds.