Welcome to Toby Tuan Nguyen (aka Toshi) personal page
Here is what I would like you to know about me.
About me
- Senior Data Engineer focused on cloud data platforms, automation, and scalable infrastructure
- I enjoy building reliable systems that make teams faster (and yes, I still code at night)
Experience
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Fiftyminds (UK)
Jan 2026 – Present
AI & Automation Engineer (Azure) — automation workflows, integrations, secure cloud delivery
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Global Fashion Group
Aug 2021 – Jul 2024
Data Engineer II, Data Platform — pipelines, analytics platform, large-scale promotions support
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Home Credit Vietnam
Nov 2017 – Jul 2021
Database Developer → Data Engineer, IT BI Solutions — fintech data systems, reliability and optimisation
Technical Skills
Data Engineering & Cloud
- Languages: Python, Advanced SQL, Oracle PL/SQL, Scala
- Processing: Spark/PySpark, Pandas, Parquet
- Orchestration: Airflow
- Transformation: dbt, Dataform
- Databases: Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL Server
- NoSQL: Cassandra
- Warehousing / Analytics: Hive, Impala, Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery
- Big Data: Hadoop (HDFS, YARN), distributed processing patterns
- Cloud (Azure & AWS):
- Azure: Functions, Storage, Key Vault, App Service, networking (VNet), monitoring/alerts
- AWS: S3, EC2, EMR, Athena, Glue, Redshift
- Infrastructure-as-Code: Terraform
- Containers: Docker, Kubernetes
- CI/CD: Git, GitHub Actions, Jenkins
- Observability: Grafana (plus logging/alerting practices)
- Security & Compliance: secure-by-design delivery; UK GDPR / DPA 2018 awareness
Web Development
- Languages: C#, JavaScript
- Frameworks: ASP.NET Core, Razor, Node.js
- Webserver: Apache, NGINX
Fundamentals
CS Fundamentals
- Data structures & algorithms
- OOP and functional programming
- E/R and relational modelling
DB Fundamentals
- ACID transactions; OLTP vs OLAP
- Normalisation vs denormalisation
- CAP theorem; scaling patterns
- Dimensional modelling; ETL/ELT
Education
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University of Exeter (UK)
2025 – 2026
MSc Data Science (grade pending)
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University of Science - VNUHCM, Vietnam
2019 – 2023
BSc, Information Technology
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International University - VNUHCM, Vietnam
2012 – 2016
BBA, Business Management
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Le Hong Phong High School for the Gifted, Vietnam
2010 – 2012
High School Diploma, Computer Science Specialisation
Certification
- IELTS 7.5 (2024)
- Udacity Data Engineering Nanodegree (2022)
Honors & Awards
- Honored Employee — IT Division, Home Credit VN (2018)
- Future Analyst Program — Home Credit VN (2017)
- JENESYS 2016 — Vietnam Delegate (Dec 2016)
- Scholarship — Summer Semester, International University (May 2016)
- First Prize — Computer Science, City Level Academic Competition (2011)
- Third Prize — Computer Science, City Level Academic Competition (2009)
Volunteering (Open to contribute)
- Happy to support non-profits/communities with data cleaning, dashboards, automation, and lightweight data pipelines.
- Prefer projects with clear impact and maintainable handover.
Connect
Toby (Tuan) Nguyen