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Tran B. V. Son

Tran B. V. Son

CTO, Money Forward i — SaaS & platform engineering leader

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Tokyo, Japan
Joined September 2025

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Engineering leader and CTO for a product startup within Money Forward — Son leads Money Forward i's engineering organization, focusing on building and scaling Admina (a SaaS aggregation and management product). His writing and engineering posts describe system design choices (DynamoDB + Elasticsearch/OpenSearch), synchronization strategies, and practical tradeoffs for scaling to hundreds of millions of records. mfi+1
Breadth across machine learning, blockchain, and full‑stack systems — his background includes ML research at HUST, blockchain engineering work, and multiple full‑stack/open-source projects (including Udemy course material and GitHub repos). This shows a blend of research foundations and practical product engineering. github+2
Active public technical communicator and community contributor — Son publishes technical writeups on Medium / Money Forward i Engineering, maintains open-source repositories on GitHub, participates on StackOverflow, and posts as a maker on Product Hunt. He writes about engineering organization, cross-cultural team management, and concrete system design decisions. medium+3
Experienced in building global, distributed engineering teams — his writing emphasizes hiring and running a diverse engineering organization (global hiring, English as the default language, RFCs, platform engineering and DX) and the operational practices used to keep a small startup engineering organization productive. mfi

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