I build software that takes the busywork off people’s plates.
I’m Tai, a software engineer turned founder. I led engineering teams at Hitachi Digital Services and Axon Active, and now build products, from AI operations for hospitality to marketplaces and tools for small businesses.
Selected work
All projects →Santara
AI-powered platform that turns booking data from Airbnb, Booking.com and WhatsApp into a daily operational briefing for short-term rental hosts.
- Applied AI
- Product
- Backend
Chợ Gem
Vietnamese marketplace and data platform for trading game accounts and gaming services, with market price tracking, top-ups and free tools for gamers.
- Marketplace
- Gaming
- Vietnam
HiTaVa
Ready-made Google Sheets and Excel templates with pre-written formulas for small businesses, covering payroll, invoicing, rentals, students, leads and projects.
- SaaS
- Templates
- SMB
Gara
A self-extending AI agent. When no installed skill fits a request, it researches the problem, writes a skill, tests it in a sandbox until it passes, installs it, and reuses it next time.
- AI Agents
- Self-improving
- TypeScript
Connex AGI
A three-tier agentic planning system that turns a vague goal into a structured, executable program, a “compiler for human intent”.
- AI Agents
- Planning
- Python
AI Code Reviewer
A CLI that reviews any GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket pull request by actually running the code (imports, tests, edge cases) in a sandbox, then posts inline review comments.
- Developer Tools
- AI Agents
- Python
Experience
Full timeline →Co-Founder
Santara AINow
Software Engineer · Team Leader
Hitachi Digital Services
Software Engineer
Axon Active
Product Owner
Taskeeper
Recent writing
All writing →Boring Businesses Make the Best Businesses
Payroll, invoices, cleaning schedules. Nobody dreams about them, but everybody has to do them — and people gladly pay to make them go away. Why unglamorous problems are often the best place to build.
Read Every Word You Sign: Term Sheets for First-Time Founders
Valuation, dilution, liquidation preference, board seats, vesting. The words in a term sheet decide who controls your company and who gets paid. A plain-language guide for first-time founders.
People Don't Pay for Features. They Pay to Do Less.
Most founders sell what their product can do. Customers buy what they no longer have to do. A short essay on the most underrated idea in business: removing work.
Your Real Competitor Is a Spreadsheet
Most software doesn't lose to another startup. It loses to Excel, Google Sheets and a paper notebook. Why that happens, and how to win anyway.
My First Business Teacher: William Christopher Skelley
He taught me how startups really work: the light side, the dark side, and why every founder ends up working for the investors. Then his own story taught me the hardest lesson of all.