Asta Nguyen
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Asta Nguyen, Senior Software Engineer

I build web apps and the AI tooling behind them.

Full-stack engineer across web apps and AI tooling — LLM agents, RAG, and MCP. Seven years shipping client products from first commit to production.

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Side projects

KamehaDB

Database management reimagined.

A free, open-source, local-first database tool built with Tauri and Next.js. Connect to multiple databases, explore schemas visually, and write queries in plain language. Your data never leaves your machine.

  • Multi-database
  • AI query generation
  • Schema visualization
  • MCP server
Visit KamehaDBSource

OpenEZ Graph

Index once. Query forever.

A local-first code intelligence engine that indexes codebases and docs into a reusable retrieval runtime for CLI tools, MCP clients, and a management UI. It stops coding agents from re-reading the same files.

  • SQLite index
  • Hybrid RAG retrieval
  • Knowledge graph
  • 7 MCP tools
Visit OpenEZ GraphSourcenpm

Stack

Web app
TypeScriptReactNext.jsTailwind CSSTanStackAngularTauri
AI tooling
OpenAIClaudeOllamaMCP
Backend & data
Node.jsNestJSFastAPIPostgreSQLRedisMongoDBDrizzlePrisma
Infra
DockerAWSGCPCI/CDLinux

Experience

  1. Jun 2026 - Present

    Senior Software Engineerat NUS TechnologyNow

    Lead architectural decisions and end-to-end delivery for client projects, owning technical direction across multiple workstreams from conception to deployment.

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    • Champion AI-assisted development across the team, building LLM agents, agent tooling, RAG pipelines, and MCP servers and integrating them into the engineering process to ship faster and review smarter.
    • Mentor mid-level and junior engineers through code reviews, pairing sessions, and design reviews, raising the overall engineering bar of the team.
    • Drive coding standards and best practices across the engineering org via design reviews, automated CI/CD workflows, and architectural guardrails.
    • Partner directly with clients to translate business requirements into technical roadmaps, scoping milestones and risk mitigation strategies.
  2. Sep 2020 - Jun 2026

    Software Engineerat NUS Technology

    Working directly with clients to gather requirements and discuss project tasks, maintaining clear and concise communication channels via text messages for effective collaboration.

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    • Built AI-powered features into client products including natural-language query generation, AI writing assistants, LLM-backed chat, RAG pipelines, and agentic workflows using multiple AI providers.
    • Provided invaluable support by reviewing and critiquing code contributed by fellow developers within the company, ensuring adherence to coding standards and performance.
    • Build from scratch web applications from initial conception to final deployment, leveraging expertise to create scalable, high-performance solutions tailored to client needs.
    • Implements coding standards through design, architectural, and coding reviews, and automated workflows via CI/CD processes.
  3. Mar 2019 - Aug 2020

    Web Developerat Digitech Solutions

    Developed and maintained the company's main products, including a web-based platform Education management and finding Job.

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    • Collaborated closely with a team of software engineers to conceptualize, develop, and maintain REST APIs and various software solutions.
    • Implements coding standards through design, architectural, and coding reviews
    • Participates in Agile meetings to contribute to development strategies and product road maps.
    • Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability
    • Seamlessly integrated our services with third-party platforms such as Payment gateways and Content Management Systems (CMS) to broaden functionality and accessibility.
    • Proficiently utilized technologies such as ExpressJS, ReactJS, NestJS, NextJS, and Cloud technologies, along with containerization using Docker
  4. 2015 - 2019

    Studentat CTUET

    Engineer's degree, Computer Software Engineering and Blockchain Researcher · Blockchain Article Writing · Decentralized Applications (DApps)

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    • Supported other students in understanding the concepts of Blockchain and its applications
    • Google Scholar profile

Latest writing

I Built an Emergency Control Room to Test Jev

What Jev is, how its typed-decision architecture differs from general LLMs, and what a 300-input emergency-dispatch benchmark revealed about speed, cost, and accuracy.

Sep 20, 2026

  • SSH into Your Mac from an iPhone with Tailscale and tmux

    Turn a Mac at home into a private personal server you can access from an iPhone with Tailscale, SSH, and tmux—without router port forwarding.

    Sep 6, 2026

  • OpenEZ: Local-First Code Intelligence for AI Coding Agents

    OpenEZ indexes code and documentation into local SQLite, builds a symbol graph, and exposes bounded retrieval, relationship traversal, and durable project memory through MCP for AI coding agents.

    Aug 18, 2026

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