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 wrote Logstash parsing for 5 Elastic Stack client projects, owned an AI invoice-assessment workflow end to end, scaled a side product to 20,000+ users, and cut per-assessment infrastructure cost by 75% through caching.
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 April 2026.
Experience
Software Engineer (Working Student) · Flowzar GmbH
Oct 2025 – Jun 2026 · Munich, Germany- FinTech cash flow forecasting platform. Built self-serve CSV/Excel data onboarding for uploads of up to 10,000 rows, replacing a multi-hour manual import the principal engineer repeated for every customer data delivery; column mapping uses deterministic rules first and an LLM as a fallback, and transactions land in an append-only PostgreSQL ledger.
- Built transaction categorization: a rule-based categorizer over transaction descriptions and payer/payee that the principal engineer used for imports, then an LLM pipeline that categorizes transactions automatically.
- In React, created a streaming AI chat window that shows the assistant's status updates as well as its answer, and a paginated transaction table.
Software Engineer · Coder Trove · Grapple AI
Jul 2024 – Sep 2025 · Vietnam- AI-powered invoice financing platform (contributed to $2M funding round). First engineer on the AI team (grew to 4), shipping v1 with 2 senior Grapple engineers; owned the end-to-end assessment workflow for invoice financing, from document upload to the interactive results dashboard, running on AWS (ECS, Lambda, SQS).
- Reduced operational workload by 250+ hours/week, cut p95 assessment time for 100-page contracts from 20+ min to under 2 min. Cut per-assessment cost by 75% ($2 → $0.50) via Redis and provider-side caching (80–90% hit rate).
Software Engineer · ENTIIS Pte Ltd
Jan 2023 – Jun 2024 · Vietnam/Singapore- Elastic Stack consultancy. Wrote Logstash parsing scripts for 5 client projects (a Vietnamese bank and 4 in Singapore), extracting structured fields from raw logs; also wrote Filebeat log-shipping configurations.
- On-site at that bank, built 7 Kibana visualizations tracking latency, uptime and error counts across web, mobile and internal systems, plus a Kibana Canvas status board with threshold-based coloring.
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.