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Builder, founder, writer.
I’m Tai Pham Phu (Kane), a software engineer and founder in Đà Nẵng, Vietnam. I co-founded Santara AI after years of leading engineering teams on client projects, and I build products like Chợ Gem and HiTaVa on the side.
Experience
04Co-Founder
Santara AINow
Product development, technology strategy, and integrations that connect hospitality businesses with modern AI and automation.
- Applied AI
- Product
- Startups
Software Engineer · Team Leader
Hitachi Digital Services
Led development teams across multiple client projects in an outsourcing environment, guiding technical direction, coordinating the team and owning delivery quality. Worked with engineers on Java, Python and ReactJS under Agile and Waterfall.
- Team leadership
- Java
- Python
- ReactJS
- Software design
Software Engineer
Axon Active
Built scalable web applications with Java, .NET and Angular in Agile teams, collaborating with global teams to deliver reliable software.
- Java
- .NET
- Angular
- Agile
Product Owner
Taskeeper
Defined the product vision and owned the backlog for a job-sharing platform that uses machine-learning recommendations to improve job matching and networking.
- Product management
- Scrum
- Recommendation systems
Education
Bachelor of Technology
Carnegie Mellon University
Bachelor’s degree, Information Technology
Duy Tan University
Certificates
Docker for Developers
LinkedIn Learning
SQL vs. NoSQL: Which Database Type Is Right for You?
LinkedIn Learning
What I work with
- Applied AI & agents
- Product development
- Backend architecture
- Team leadership
- Java · Python · TypeScript
- React · Angular · .NET
- Agile / Scrum
- Technical writing