My name is Duy (pronounce: /Yu-ee/), people usually call me Goon. I’m a CEO as well as a CTO of my own company - TOP GROUP (a.k.a DIGITOP) - in Viet Nam.

My business

I started a business that “half as an marketing agency and half as a tech company” on 2015, I got 40 sweet guys until now, I also have a great dev team in house with a strong knowledge about developing web-apps, AR/VR technology and platform systems.

Find out more at https://wearetopgroup.com/

My background

Before opening my own business, (just like you) I’ve been a developer, and also a designer, a project manager, a tech lead, a creative director and a CTO at some advertising agencies, such as VNG, Mirum, JWT,… for years. I think I’m lucky to have the opportunities to work with many clients across different industries, that gave me a lot of good experience.

My Linkedin Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/duy-nguyễn-39aba530/

My experience in DevOps

After more than 6 years of adopting Kubernetes for my clients, partners, and my own businesses, I have found that the most difficult aspect is training my development team on Kubernetes and how to deploy apps onto it.

Successfully managing Kubernetes clusters requires a deep understanding of so many concepts, definitions, and practices involved. With so much to consider, it can be difficult for developers to know how to deploy apps in the most effective way.

That’s why I built a simple deployment tool… and then it has been envolved to Diginext now.

My ambition

• As a developer with over 15 years of experience, I have mixed feelings about developers today. On the one hand, they are fortunate to have access to modern technologies, frameworks, and useful libraries to work with. On the other hand, I empathize with them because I know firsthand how daunting it can be to keep up with the continuous learning required in this field. Their career path will be a long journey filled with head-scratching and late nights (and dark eyes).
• So I want to help, I want to simplize things, complicated definitions, vague concepts,… into something much more simple to understand, something closer to their daily life, and really straightforward.
• Let’s make coding great again!

My wife

(”WTF???”, lol I know, let me tell you my story)

Coding is my hobby. Even as I've progressed in my career, I just can't quit coding. (I tried, trust me, so many times).

This has become a problem for my wife, as she questions my obsession with coding. I spent the whole day talking to the computer instead of helping with household tasks. (I did some tasks every day, but it just wasn't enough 😅 , please tell me that I’m not the only one)

One of her questions is: “Why don’t you just like the others? (just work for 8 hours/day) You spend time for coding even when you’re at home with no reasons, but there is nothing changes, then why?”