T Dao Nguyen
Solutions architect. Experienced in regulated, high-stakes environments spanning data management, health and wellness, fintech, identity protection, public safety, and standards development.
Learning with intentional abandon.
Back in 2012, I built my first console application that generated a pun shared by the pun-derful people in my life. It led me to dive head-first into the wonders of this craft known as software development.
Fast forward to today, and I’ve had the privilege of building software for start-ups up to large corporations within industries ranging from data management, health and wellness, financial technology, identity theft/prevention, public safety, and international standards.
My main focus these days is to develop software meant to change the world, however big or small the impact. I work collaboratively with marginalized communities and community-led organizations to create technical solutions for their needs and society at large.
When I’m not at the computer, I’m usually reading, embroidering, walking my dog, or cycling aimlessly while enjoying the outdoors.
311-Data
Developing software that empowers Neighborhood Associations to improve the analysis of their initiatives using 311 data. Made possible by the LA Open Data initiative.
Developing internal software for a suite of data management products being used by (at the time) 97 of the Fortune 100.
Developing software to protect and mitigate harm inflicted on individuals before/after identity theft and data breach attacks.
List of production-level features I've developed over the years.
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| User Interfaces | Creating front-end applications that ranged from consumer-facing to internal-facing. |
| Customer 360 / CDP | Building a centralized customer data model in Zoho CRM, designed to scale into a full customer data platform over time. |
| Dashboard | Building and enhancing product dashboards, spanning new development from scratch to UI, feature, and backend work on existing solutions. |
| Reports | Generating reports from relational/non-relational databases for the internal/external use of an organization. |
| Pipeline & Defintion Consolidation | Aligning stage and status definitions across marketing platforms for reporting. |
| Lead Scoring & Attribution | Setting up scoring criteria and attribution tracking to connect marketing activity with downstream pipeline outcomes. |
| Data Normalization | Writing normalization logic to reconcile and standardize customer data across connected systems. |
| Data Validation & QA | Building validation checks to verify data accurancy and integrity before feeding downstream reporting. |
| Internal/External API's | Developing API endpoints (using REST, SOAP, GraphQL, and more) made internally/externally available for varying use cases. |
| 3rd Party Integrations | Integrating 3rd party solutions to the existing application of an organization. |
| SEO & Growth Audits | Auditing site health and congent performance to guide organic growth priorities. |
| Authentication / Authorization | Developing Auth solutions implementing OAUTH/OIDC protocols for the internal and external users of an organization. |
| Campaign Operations | Reworking a slow, multi-step campaign launch workflow into a process built to hold up during high-volume periods. |
Problem: Production application was running on an older stack (.NET/AngularJS), making it slower to extend and harder to maintain as requirements grew.
Approach: Migrated the application to a modern stack — .NET Core/ReactJS with server-side rendering, static generation, client/server side validation, while preserving existing functionality to minimize downtime during the transition.
Result: Reduced time to ship new features by 97.9% and a 48x speedup, eliminated a class of recurring bugs tied to the old framework, and optimized website SEO resulting in increased organic traffic/improved rankings.
Problem: Systems needed secure access control for both internal and external users, without a prior solution.
Approach: Designed and implemented auth flows using OAuth/OIDC protocols, supporting internal tooling and external partner access with token-based authentication.
Result: Delivered a secure, standards-based auth layer used across internal and external user bases, reducing security risk / manual access-management overhead.
Problem: The same customer frequently existed as multiple records across systems, due to inconsistent entry points and formatting — fragmenting engagement history and skewing metrics.
Approach: Wrote Python-based normalization and matching logic to identify, reconcile, and merge duplicate customer records across connected systems, with validation safeguards to prevent incorrect merges.
Result: ~20,000 duplicate records resolved to date, with the normalization pipeline still active and running continuously.
Problem: Customer data lived in silos across ad platforms, CRM, and organic channels, with no reliable single view of who a customer actually was. Approach: Architected, built, and now own a Customer 360 inside Zoho CRM, consolidating multi-channel data into a single source of truth, with the system designed to scale into a full customer data platform (CDP) over time. Result: A unified customer view now feeds reporting across departments, replacing what used to be fragmented, inconsistent data spread across disconnected systems.
Problem: Teams relied on manually compiling recurring digests from reputable industry sources, research papers, etc. which was repetitive and easy to deprioritize under other work. Approach: Built a scheduled job using Claude to automatically generate marketing and compliance digests on a daily basis, pulling from data sources that are vetted and finalizing digest after a review step to confirm output accuracy before distribution.
Result: Digests now run unattended on schedule, reducing manual reporting overhead and ensuring consistent, on-time delivery ..
To learn about more solutions I've built feel free to get in touch.
Mongo / Express / React / Node
Mongo / Express / Angular / Node
.NET / jQuery / MSSQL
.NET / Angular / MSSQL
.NET Core / React / MSSQL
NextJS / React (SSR & SSG)
& more.
Javascript
Typescript
C#
SQL
TSQL
PSQL
Python
Relational dbs
_MS SQL
_Oracle
_PostgreSQL
Non-relational dbs
_MongoDB
_GCP Firestore
Object Storage
Bootstrap
_jQuery Bootstrap
_React Bootstrap
Material Design
_AngularJS Material
TailwindCSS
REST API development
_Internal
_External
(token generation)
3rd-party APIs handling:
_Authentication
_Business Functionality
_Partner Integration
Subversion, TFSVC, GIT
Azure DevOps
Amazon Web Services
Google Cloud Platform
Docker / K8s / Terraform
Customer 360
CDP Architecture
Multi-Channel Data Aggregation
Data Normalization
Data Validation & QA
Pipeline & Territory Consolidation
Salesforce
Zoho CRM
_Zoho One
Zapier
SEMrush
Ad Campaign Management
Campaign Launch Optimization
Peak-Season Scaling
SEO Audits
Lead Scoring
Attribution Modeling
MQL / MQA Definitions