Minh Vu
Software Engineer · Compilers & Systems
I'm a competitive programmer turned Software Engineer — Third Prize at the ICPC Asia Hanoi Regional Contest (ranked 32/126) and Second Prize at the Vietnam Olympiad in Informatics, plus LeetCode 1756 (Top 10% globally).
After 3+ years building backend, distributed, and applied-AI systems, I'm now doing my M.Sc. in Computer Science at University of Passau, Germany, to move into the work my algorithmic training was built for: compilers, program analysis, and runtime systems — LLVM/MLIR, IR design and optimization passes, and performance engineering.
Along the way I built log ingestion pipelines for an observability platform handling 40TB of logs/month, built production GenAI platforms, scaled a side product to 20,000+ users, and cut infrastructure costs by up to 75% through caching and optimization strategies.
I'm building workingstudentjobs.de to help international students in Germany discover English-speaking working student and internship roles faster.
A bilingual (EN/DE) job board serving 32,000+ sessions/month with 21,000+ jobs from 13,000+ companies. An 11-adapter ingestion pipeline fetches, deduplicates, and classifies 400–500 new jobs every weekday; prompt caching and time-of-day provider switching cut LLM classification cost by 58%.
Live since March 2026.
Experience
Software Engineer (Working Student) · Flowzar GmbH
Oct 2025 – Jun 2026 · Munich, Germany- FinTech cash flow forecasting platform. Built end-to-end financial data ingestion pipelines with PostgreSQL event sourcing and hybrid LLM-powered schema validation.
- Enabled customer self-service onboarding through CSV/Excel uploads, reducing manual data entry workload.
Software Engineer · Coder Trove · Grapple AI
Jul 2024 – Sep 2025 · Vietnam- AI-powered invoice financing platform (contributed to $2M funding round). Architected production GenAI platform automating invoice assessment workflows on AWS (ECS, Lambda, SQS).
- Reduced operational workload by 250+ hours/week, optimized document processing from 20+ min to under 2 min. Cut per-assessment cost by 75% ($2 → $0.50) via optimal caching strategies (80–90% hit rate).
Software Engineer · ENTIIS Pte Ltd
Jan 2023 – Jun 2024 · Vietnam- Enterprise observability & logging platform for banking and government clients. Built the log ingestion and parsing layer across 5 Elastic Stack deployments — Filebeat and Logstash pipelines normalizing heterogeneous application, system, and network logs into one consistent schema.
- Ingest fed a platform handling 40TB of logs/month; handled client-specific formats, grok parsing, and multiline events so dashboards and alerting stayed consistent across every deployment.
Education
Master of Science in Computer Science
Oct 2025 – Apr 2028 (expected)University of Passau, Germany
Focusing on compilers and language implementation — IR design and optimization passes, static program analysis, runtime systems, and parallel/high-performance computing.
Relevant coursework
Bachelor of Information Technology
Sep 2020 – Aug 2024FPT University, Vietnam
GPA: 8.94/10 · Full Scholarship · Top 10/900+ students
Projects
Formularizer
Jan 2023 – Aug 2026 · Sunset- AI-powered formula generator translating natural language to spreadsheet formulas. Scaled to 20,000+ users and 2,000+ MAU with multi-provider LLM routing and intelligent fallback.
- Served 10,000+ monthly requests at peak with cost-optimized LLM routing and Stripe-integrated payments.
Honors & Awards
Top 10 of Graduating Batch of 900+ students, FPT University
2024Third Prize, ICPC Asia Hanoi Regional Contest (ranked 32/126)
2022Second Prize, Vietnam Olympiad in Informatics for Undergraduates
2020Skills
Languages
Systems (MSc focus)
Backend
AWS
Databases
Infrastructure
Monitoring
Applied ML
I'm open to software engineering internships for 2027 and working student positions — on-site in Munich or Berlin, with a particular interest in compilers, systems, and performance engineering.