Hi, I'm Minh.

Engineer at TomTom in Amsterdam. Writing about distributed systems, what I'm learning along the way, and the life around the work.

This site is my public workbench: long-form essays when an idea has settled, short notes while I am still figuring it out, reading logs for the technical backbone, and occasional life texture from Amsterdam.

The thread through it all is technical growth: how backend systems scale, how engineering judgment forms, and what remains human around the work.