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Experience & Skills

Work history, banking systems expertise, and technical capabilities.

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Banking Production Experience

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Sacombank

CURRENT
DevOps Engineer
Core Banking · Open Banking · Payment Systems
Nov 2024 — Present
Ho Chi Minh City
Core T24Open BankingPayment SystemsOpenShift OCP
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Contributed to enabling Sacombank to become the first bank in Vietnam to go-live on Temenos T24 R25 — total upgrade window reduced from 2 weeks (R17/2017) to 3 days (R25/2026) through pipeline automation and continuous process improvement

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First Temenos T24 deployment on OpenShift at Sacombank — authored Helm umbrella charts for modular, independent upgrades per component (ENQ, WEB channels) with zero cross-component coupling

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Redesigned JBoss domain topology for AML system: split into 2 independent server groups with load balancer reconfiguration, eliminating ~10-minute deployment downtime

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Architected branch-based CI/CD strategy with ITSM-gated production deployments — Git tag triggers QA notification email with one-click approval; master merge creates ITSM change ticket for infra-confirmed production release

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Integrated security scanning (SonarQube, Aqua Scanner, Coverity, BlackDuck) and Microsoft Teams workflow automation into all pipeline stages

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Managed CI/CD for ~400 source codes across WebSphere, OCP, JBoss; maintained 99% uptime via Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, Zabbix + Kibana log integration

Key Impact Metrics
50%
Faster deployments
75%
More frequent releases
2w→3d
T24 upgrade window
99%
System uptime
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Accenture

Monitoring DevOps Engineer
Clients: LVMH Louis Vuitton · OVH Cloud
Jul 2024 — Oct 2024
Ho Chi Minh City
DatadogZabbix
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Monitored enterprise infrastructure for LVMH Louis Vuitton and OVH Cloud using Datadog and Zabbix

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Built and maintained alert logic pipeline: aggregated incidents from monitoring stack and auto-created structured tickets for partner response teams

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DXC Technology Vietnam

DevOps Engineer
Clients: Allianz Philippines · AIA · PSMBFI
Sep 2022 — Jul 2024
Ho Chi Minh City
JenkinsGitLab CIAnsibleNexusJFrog
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Primary DevOps implementer for Allianz Philippines, AIA, PSMBFI on AWS — completed critical platform delivery within 100 days, received formal recognition from Allianz Philippines

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Reduced AWS non-production costs by 40% through instance rightsizing, auto-scaling policies, and spot instance adoption across dev, FT, UAT, and staging environments

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Provisioned cloud infrastructure with Terraform; automated configuration management with Ansible and Groovy-based Jenkins pipeline scripts for multi-environment deployments

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Built artifact management workflows with Nexus and JFrog Artifactory; implemented CI/CD compliance gates for regulated financial services clients

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Sacombank DevOps Architecture

Production pipeline supporting Core T24, Open Banking, and Payment systems — from commit to deployment.

CI/CD Pipeline & Deployment
Testing & Quality
Observability
Security & Compliance
bug_report Testing Suite
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Katalon
Automation Testing
Functional
security
Rapid7 InsightAppSec
DAST
Dynamic Security Scan
speed
HPLoadRunner
Performance Test
Load Testing (Optional)
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User / Dev
Code Editor
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Microsoft 365
Collaboration
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BMC Helix
IT Service
commit
merge
GitLab
Source Control
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Jenkins
CI Controller
Pipeline Engine
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Nexus
Artifact Registry
pull image
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OpenShift
Orchestration
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analytics
Grafana + Prometheus
Metrics
storage
ELK Stack
Logging
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code
SonarQube
Code Quality
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Coverity
SAST
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BlackDuck
SCA
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AquaSec
Image Scan
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Ansible
CD Automation
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App Servers
JBoss · WebSphere · IIS
gavel Compliance
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Rapid7 InsightVM
Security & Compliance
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Engineering for Financial Systems

Banking DevOps is not regular DevOps. Every deployment touches millions of transactions. Here's how I build for it.

account_tree CI/CD Pipeline Architecture

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Code Commit
GitLab
build
Build
Maven / Gradle
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Test
Unit + Integration
security
Security Scan
SAST / Compliance
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Artifact Push
Nexus Registry
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Deploy
OpenShift OCP
Pipeline: banking-core-t24 Trigger: git push → main Duration: ~4m 30s Status: ✓ PASSING Strategy: Rolling — Zero Downtime

schema Banking System Architecture

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GitLab CI / Jenkins
CI/CD Orchestration Platform
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OpenShift OCP
Container Orchestration
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Core T24
Core Banking System
api
Open Banking
API Gateway Layer
payments
Payment System
Transaction Processing
storage
Database CI/CD Layer — Schema Migration · Version Control · Rollback
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Zero-Downtime Deployments

  • Rolling update strategy on OpenShift OCP
  • Pre-deployment health checks and smoke tests
  • Automated rollback on failure detection
  • 47+ consecutive zero-downtime releases
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Database CI/CD

  • Schema version control with automated migrations
  • Flyway/Liquibase integration in pipelines
  • Point-in-time rollback for failed migrations
  • Compliance-grade audit trail for all changes
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Security in Pipelines

  • SAST and DAST scanning at every stage
  • Secret detection before code merges
  • Approval gates for production deployments
  • Regulatory compliance checks automated
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Hybrid Infrastructure

  • On-premises data centers (primary banking)
  • AWS cloud integration for scalable services
  • Ansible-automated provisioning across both
  • Unified monitoring and alerting layer
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Technical Capabilities

Pipeline & Infrastructure
Observability
Domain Expertise
Security & Compliance
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CI/CD

Jenkins 92%
GitLab CI 88%
Groovy Pipelines 85%
Pipeline as Code 90%
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Container Platform

OpenShift (OCP) 90%
Kubernetes 85%
Docker 90%
Helm 75%
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Automation

Ansible 88%
Bash Scripting 90%
Infrastructure as Code 82%
Auto-remediation 78%
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Banking Systems

Core T24 85%
Open Banking 85%
Payment Systems 83%
WebSphere / JBoss 78%
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Cloud & Infra

AWS 75%
Hybrid Cloud 80%
On-Premises 90%
Network & Security 75%
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Monitoring

Grafana / Prometheus 83%
Datadog 78%
Zabbix 75%
ELK Stack 70%
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Security & Compliance

SonarQube / Coverity 82%
Aqua Scanner / BlackDuck 78%
Compliance Gates 85%
Audit Trails 88%
All Tools & Technologies
JenkinsGitLab CIOpenShift OCPKubernetesDockerAnsibleAWS EC2AWS S3AWS LambdaAWS RDSAWS ECSAPI GatewayCore T24Open BankingPayment SystemsWebSphereJBossBashGroovyPythonFlywayNexusJFrogHelmGrafanaPrometheusDatadogZabbixSonarQubeAqua ScannerCoverityBlackDuckGitLinuxNginxOracle DBPostgreSQL