Minh Vu

Minh Vu

Software Engineer

I'm a Software Engineer with 3+ years of experience specializing in backend systems, scalable architecture, and distributed systems. Currently pursuing my M.Sc. in Computer Science at University of Passau, Germany, while working as a Software Engineer at Flowzar GmbH (Munich-based FinTech).

I've built production GenAI platforms, optimized applications serving 20,000+ users, and reduced infrastructure costs by up to 75% through intelligent caching and optimization strategies.

LeetCode: 1756 rating (Top 10% globally) · Strong foundation in algorithms and data structures.

Experience

Software Engineer (Working Student) · Flowzar GmbH

Oct 2025 – Present · 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.
FastAPIPostgreSQLReact/ViteLLM APIs

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).
FastAPIAWS (ECS, Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, S3)RedisLangChain/LangGraphOpenAI/AnthropicSentryLangfuseDynamoDB/MongoDBDistributed Systems

Software Engineer · ENTIIS Pte Ltd

Feb 2022 – Jun 2024 · Vietnam
  • Enterprise observability & logging platform. Delivered 5 Elastic Stack deployments for banking and government clients with end-to-end logging pipelines.
  • Processed 40TB of logs/month at enterprise scale; optimized infrastructure costs via index lifecycle management and hot-warm-cold architecture.
ElasticsearchLogstashKibanaFilebeatLinux

Education

Master of Science in Computer Science

Oct 2025 – Present

University of Passau, Germany

Focusing on distributed systems, advanced database systems, and scalable software engineering.

Bachelor of Information Technology

Sep 2020 – Sep 2024

FPT University, Vietnam

GPA: 8.94/10 · Full Scholarship · Top 10/900+ students

Projects

Formularizer

Jan 2023 – Jan 2024
  • 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.
  • Processing 10,000+ monthly requests with cost-optimized LLM routing and Stripe-integrated payments.
NestJSFastAPINext.jsMongoDBRedisStripeAuth.jsVercel

Honors & Awards

Top 10 of Graduating Batch of 900+ students, FPT University

2024

Third Prize, ICPC Asia Hanoi Regional Contest (ranked 32/126)

2022

Second Prize, Vietnam Olympiad in Informatics for Undergraduates

2020

Skills

Languages

PythonTypeScriptJavaScriptC++Java

Backend

FastAPINestJSGraphQLREST APIsWebSocketServer-Sent Eventspytestasyncio

AWS

ECSLambdaSQSEventBridgeS3CloudWatchDynamoDBAWS CDK

Databases

PostgreSQLMongoDBDynamoDBRedis

Infrastructure

DockerKubernetesCI/CDLinuxInfrastructure as Code

Monitoring

SentryCloudWatchLangfuseElastic Stack

Applied ML

LangChainLangGraphOpenAIAnthropicRAGQdrantWeaviate

I'm actively seeking SDE opportunities in Munich/Germany.