LEAD PRODUCT MANAGER / KATALON BUILDS SOFTWARE LIKES TO KNOW HOW THINGS WORK
At Katalon, I lead product work for True Platform, the company’s software-testing platform. Outside work, I build software tools, maintain a motorcycle and home server, and play guitar.Product manager and software builder in Ho Chi Minh City. I am usually fixing a tool, motorcycle, or home server.
THE TEAM / WHEN THEY BUILD IT
I bring the team the demand, the pain and the gap, not a solution to implement. Then we argue about the how. I stay close enough to the product technically to follow the options and challenge the ones that overreach.
Knowing the product technically means I can have the same conversation with anyone in the room.
MYSELF / WHEN NOTHING FITS
Work or home, if nothing that exists does what I need, I build the thing that does. Prototypes stay coupled to product code, so a working version gets in front of real demand in days, then adopt, pivot or tear down.
326 def cmd_wait(args):
328 """Always returns, safe to call inline in any harness."""
344 deadline = time.time() + timeout
345 while True:
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359 if time.time() >= deadline:
360 print("wait:timeout")
361 returnMost started because something in my own workflow was annoying or slow. A few later became useful to other people.
01 / MOTORCYCLES
I ride it, I fix it, and I keep modifying it. Some changes stick and some I undo the next weekend. That is how I learned what a quarter-turn of an adjuster changes.
02 / GUITAR
I like unusual chords, slightly off-key singing, and clean guitar tones pushed until they start to distort.
03 / HOME SERVER SETUP
It runs OpenWrt, an Orange Pi, network storage, Home Assistant, and AirPlay. The logs help me find the problem whenever two devices stop communicating.
04 / SIM RACING
The car’s telemetry data shows exactly where I lost time. It also makes it difficult to blame the equipment.
05 / AUTOMATIONS
Transactions sync themselves into my portfolio tracker. The lights, the air conditioning and most of the electronics run on routines. An agent sits across the infrastructure and makes the changes I would otherwise do by hand.
06 / 3D PRINTING
A Bambu A1 Mini, usually at a 0.2mm layer height. Shelf attachments, phone cases, a laptop stand, a replacement part for a helmet, and a steady run of models and toys. Some of it is genuinely useful, the rest is decoration.
07 / MAO
She takes the spot next to the keyboard in the morning and stays there for the rest of the working day. That is the whole arrangement.