Germany

Platform Product Management

Development Operations

Security Engineering

Site Reliability

Trung Nguyen

Founder

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Communication

Problem-solving

Time management

Critical-thinking

Organisation skills

Leadership

Cloud computing

Adobe Photoshop

CircleCI

Docker

GitHub

Golang (Go)

Notion

PostgreSQL

Empathy

Stakeholder management

Collaboration

Team player

Project management

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

How to maintain trust, commitment, accountability deliver results while handling conflict

Avoiding common dysfunctions

How to determine what is a good balance of skill sets for your organization's needs

Building balanced teams

How to identify star candidates, evaluate technical ability, and close hires

Hiring software engineers

Decision making as a software engineer or lead - how to become better at making the right choices

Making better tech choices

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

What is a successful user onboarding flow and how to achieve it?

Onboarding new users

I partner with engineering teams to optimize their workflows and increase productivity. 
Using a customized approach, I assess their needs and provide a tailored actionable roadmap to improve efficiency across the board. 
I provide hands-on support during implementation and measure progress, ensuring sustainable results.

My focus is on building psychological safety and creating environments where remote teams can thrive.  I help teams find the perfect solution for their needs, at the right scale.

* playing Team Blue

Infrastructure Security
* Kubernetes Management
* DDoS Protection
* CI/CD Security

Application Review
Access Management
Running Bug Bounty Programm
Vulnerability Management

Staff Security
* Giving Trainings
* Endpoint Security
* Security Awareness

Managing Company Risk/Governance
* ISO27001
* Vendor Management

* Providing general strategic direction of cloud migration/IT security
* Migrating production from on premise data center to cloud platform (AWS)
* Building and Managing Kubernetes cluster in production
* Migrating micro services from native execution to container environment
* Automating infrastructure as code with Terraform, Ansible
* Building Jenkins multi branch pipeline
* Building one command dev environment using docker-compose, docker-machine
* Monitoring system with Grafana
* Log Aggregation with ELK Stack
* Conducting job interviews of potential new hirees

* Ansible Configuration Management
* on Premise Gitlab Instance/Gitlab CI
* Docker (Swarm) Deployment/Orchestration
* Cisco Network Appliances/pfSense Firewall Management
* Webstack Server Management: Nginx(LB, Logging[ELK Stack], Monitoring[Prometheus, Grafana], Alerting[Prometheus]), Postgres, MySQL/MariaDB
* Server Management(Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Microsoft Server, Windows & OS X Workstation Administration, AD)
* Designing and applying security concept for internal IT/Infrastructure/Employees

Software Development, Custom DMS Development with Ruby on Rails/PostgreSQL as Backend; Javascript, HTML, CSS3, Bootstrap, jQuery and AngularJS as Frontend. Git for Version Control
CI & CD Pipeline with Travis, Codecoverage with Coveralls.
Terraform + Ansible for Deployment and spin up of cloud instances(AWS, DigitalOcean).

Multiple Wordpress Installations, Hosting(Web, Mail, DNS) for multiple clients. Used Technologies: Ansible, Git, Linux(Debian/CentOS), LAMP/LEMP

Monitoring/Alerting with Grafana + InfluxDB, Logmanagement with ELK Stack

Execution of Security audits based on OWASP.

Testing various web applications on vulnerabilities, like XSS, SQL Injection, CSRF, Session Management etc.
Auditing of application-, web- and databaseservers(Apache, Nginx, MSSQL, OracleDB, Tomcat etc.) configurations. 
Writing of detailed technical bug reports and recommendations for fixes.

Trung Nguyen🇩🇪