# Tien Nguyen Minh's CV

- Phone: +84 869 156 149
- Email: [tiennm99@outlook.com](mailto:tiennm99@outlook.com)
- Location: HCMC, Vietnam
- Website: [miti99.com](https://miti99.com/)
- LinkedIn: [miti99](https://linkedin.com/in/miti99)
- GitHub: [tiennm99](https://github.com/tiennm99)
- Telegram: [tiennm5](https://t.me/tiennm5)


# Experience
## **Senior Software Engineer**, ZingPlay Game Studios, VNG Corp. -- HCMC, Vietnam

July 2020 – present

Progressed from Game Programming Fresher to Senior Software Engineer over 5+ years building and operating production backends for real-time multiplayer games, collaborating daily with client, QA, release, and product stakeholders.

- [Chaos Age 2](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=vn.zps.tl2): Built and operated gameplay systems, battle synchronization, matchmaking, payments/webpay, admin tooling, automated tests, and delivery pipelines as primary Java backend contributor

- Built and maintained Java 21 backend modules with Netty/Vert.x, Couchbase, Redis, Kafka, Gradle, JUnit 5, Mockito, Docker-based local dependencies, and GitLab CI pipelines; used automated tests around gameplay, payment, and release-critical flows

- Applied OOP and design patterns to reusable packet handlers, gameplay workflows, payment/config modules, and admin tooling for live products

- [Burkozel](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=zps.games.burkozel), [Show](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=zps.games.show), and [Sky Garden](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=vn.kvtm.js): Diagnosed and fixed live concurrency issues; maintained backend gameplay events, payment/config updates, metrics, and release support

- Built an internal Claude Code plugin/skill marketplace and Java game-server scaffolding guidance, standardizing packet-handler generation, framework usage, and AI-assisted delivery workflows



# Projects
## **[Store Scraper Bot](https://github.com/tiennm99/store-scraper-bot) / [Java original](https://github.com/tiennm99/store-scraper-bot-java)**

Nov 2025 – present

Telegram bot for tracking Apple App Store and Google Play app updates; original Java 21 implementation later ported to Node.js/Vercel.

- Built Java bot with Gradle, MongoDB, command-pattern Telegram handlers, reusable repository abstractions, Docker Compose, and JUnit scraper tests; ported to serverless Node.js with Upstash Redis, Vercel Cron, and GitHub Actions checks



## **[Gomoku](https://github.com/tiennm99/gomoku)**

2026

Multiplayer Gomoku game with authoritative Go WebSocket backend, protobuf binary messages, Docker Compose, GitHub Actions CI, and Phaser client.

- Designed server-authoritative gameplay (move validation, win detection, PVP/PVE/spectator modes, minimax AI with alpha-beta pruning) with Go tests over game, lobby, and codec flows; CI runs vet, tests, and builds



## **[miti99bot](https://github.com/tiennm99/miti99bot)**

May 2026 – present

Modular Go Telegram bot framework on AWS Lambda (SAM) with pluggable KV storage providers (Firestore/DynamoDB) and AI integration with rate limiting.

- Covered modules, storage providers, and AI rate limiting with 53 Go test files; GitHub Actions CI plus OIDC-authenticated AWS deploy pipeline



# Skills
**Languages:** Java, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, Shell

**Frameworks & Libraries:** Netty, Vert.x, Spring Boot, JUnit 5, Mockito, Cocos2d-x, Godot, WebSocket

**Data & Messaging:** Couchbase, Redis, MySQL, Kafka, ClickHouse

**Infrastructure & DevOps:** Docker, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Linux, AWS Lambda/SAM, Cloudflare Workers, Vercel

**Architecture:** OOP and design patterns, reusable components, real-time multiplayer game-server architecture, event-driven design

**Delivery Practices:** Unit testing, code review, production debugging, continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), DevOps collaboration, AI-assisted development workflows

# Education
## **Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology**, B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering -- HCMC, Vietnam
Sept 2017 – June 2023

- GPA: 8.0/10 — Academic Excellence Scholarship; Five Good Student Award

- Thesis: Survival2D — multiplayer Battle Royale game server in Java (Netty/WebSocket) with authoritative architecture, FlatBuffers serialization, behavior-tree AI bots, and server-side anti-cheat