#8 - The journey from Vietnam to the US tech scene
Dalat, 16 Nov 2023.
Greetings from Vi, a Techie coordinator since Mar 2023.
We haven’t been sending your these tiny letters for a while. So with this one, we want to first share with you what we have been up to for since last time we talked.
New contributors: welcome Tom & Lap Nguyen, both software engineers, Duyen & Lam, both editors to join Techie team.
Hard at work: 7 tech events organized both online, offline, and hybrid in partnership with VietTech, AWS, Grokking Vietnam, Frontend Community, WeBuild, Dwarves and Code Mely.
Stories told: 34 inspiring journey of Vietnamese engineers from the US, Canada, Singapore, EU and Vietnam got published.
Excited news: our Fanpage reached 9k Followers 🥳
Featured Story
My mentor introduced Thanh Nguyen Huu to me: “Thanh is so talented; interview him, and you will have more cool stories”. Turned out Thanh is exactly what we could imagine in a neighbor’s child; excelling in school, winning tech prizes and awards, studying in Singapore on scholarship, ex-Google, ex-Grab and now working at Meta.
All that, but I was most impressed by how modest and humble he was. He admitted to having “imposter syndrome,” which he turned into a force to keep himself motivated, giving life his best shot everyday.
Read his stories, you may find something for your own motivation there.
Other stories:
Tuan Vu - Senior Software Engineer at Quora: At Meta, sometimes I had to decide to halt development projects that seemed less effective.
Xuan Luong - Staff Software Engineer at Honor: The New York Dream and Job Application at Google.
Chau Tran - Senior Engineer at Nx.dev: Since having a baby, I’ve seen my wife cry more.
Hopefully, by telling you all these different paths of life in tech, Techie will be a little source of strength to make you smile a little, inspire, and keep you motivated in the ever-changing tech landscape.
If you want to share your story, email us at team@techiestory.net or leave a message on our Fanpage. We always stay here, listening to you.
Best,
Team Techie with ♥️