Khanh Ngo

Engineering Leader / Open-source Builder / Gamer

I'm Khanh — ngoduykhanh in most places online. I've spent over 15 years building and operating cloud platforms across fintech, e-commerce and IoT, and much of that time leading the teams that run them. Whichever handle you know me by, the query below shows they all resolve to the same person.

$ dig ndk.name ANY +noall +answer

;; ANSWER SECTION:

ndk.name.∞INPERSONKhanh Ngo — Berlin

github∞INCNAMEngoduykhanh.

linkedin∞INCNAMEngoduykhanh.

twitter∞INCNAMEngokhanhit.

steam∞INCNAMEdingvn.

mail∞INMX[email protected]

;; Yes, those are all me.

Track record

Lead platform domains end to end — platform engineering, data, ML and developer experience under one roof
Champion internal developer platforms that turn tickets into self-service
Treat cost as an engineering metric — repeatedly cut cloud spend without losing a signal
Put LLMs to work where they earn their keep — shipping practical tools, not demos
Built and led engineering teams across Europe and Asia, including a Head of Engineering role
Grow engineers into senior and leadership roles — mentorship, honest feedback and fair calibration

How I lead

Hands-on and outcome-oriented — I still read the code and sit in the architecture reviews
Grow engineers deliberately — mentorship programs, honest one-on-ones, fair and transparent promotions
Balance technical quality against business constraints — reliability and security are features, not taxes
Build platform culture — self-service over tickets, service reviews over heroics

Still hands-on

Cloud at scale — GCP, AWS and Azure, from racks of physical servers to fully managed Kubernetes
Infrastructure as code — Terraform, ArgoCD and Helm; anything worth doing twice gets automated
Software development in Python, Go and TypeScript
AI enablement — agentic workflows, MCP servers, and LLM + vector search running in production

Projects

Leading teams never stopped me from shipping. Open-source tools I've built, run by thousands of self-hosters:

PowerDNS-Admin

A full-featured web interface for managing PowerDNS zones and records

wireguard-ui

A web panel for running a WireGuard VPN — peers, keys and configs in one place

ifconfig.top

A tiny service that answers one question — what's my IP address? Running live at ifconfig.top.

Contact

Hiring for engineering leadership, or just want to talk platforms? Email is the best way to reach me: [email protected] — my CV with the full details is available on request. For anything sensitive, encrypt your message with my GPG public key — you can pull and import it straight from this domain:

curl https://ndk.name/pgp.asc | gpg --import