THE LONGER STORY

A curiosity engineer.

Embedded systems roots. Cloud-native curiosity.
Here’s a little more about where I’m coming from.

01 / Profile

HUST excellence honors graduate with a 3.82/4.0 CPA. An embedded systems engineer moving into cloud-native infrastructure, with a love for Linux and learning by doing. Currently experimenting with resilient Kubernetes clusters on mini-PCs to explore real-world DevOps and SRE challenges.

02 / Hands-on experience

Kubernetes on Proxmox ONGOING

I run six Debian VMs across two Proxmox hosts, provisioned with Terraform and bootstrapped with Ansible and kubeadm. kube-vip provides a stable API address, and Cilium handles the cluster network.

Read the cluster notes ↗

Managing the cluster with Argo CD ONGOING

An app-of-apps setup manages Cilium, Sealed Secrets, and VictoriaMetrics collection from Git. vmagent sends the cluster’s metrics to my cloud VPS using a client certificate.

Read the GitOps story ↗

Google Cloud services and backups ONGOING

My VPS runs Headscale, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, and personal services with rootless Podman. systemd handles Git-driven deployments, while workstation timers pull persistent state over SSH for Restic backups.

Read the VPS story ↗

Embedded Systems Project

I built a gesture-controlled Air Mouse with STM32 and nRF24L01, and used eBPF to capture WLAN packets for network analysis. I also worked on the design and simulation of a SPAD single-photon counting circuit and on real-time e-target processing. The latter two projects are covered by NDAs, so only their broad scope is public.

Explore the four embedded projects ↗

03 / Education

Master of Science in Control & Automation 2025 — 2027

Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST)

Bachelor of Science Control & Automation 2021 — 2025

Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST)
Excellence honors graduate · CPA 3.82/4.0

04 / Achievements

Academic recognition and English-language credentials are collected on a separate page.

See scholarships and certificates ↗

05 / Skills & technologies

Infrastructure

Kubernetes Docker Terraform Ansible Linux Proxmox

Programming (Basic level)

Python Go Bash C C++

Observability

VictoriaMetrics Grafana