Data · AI · Leadership

I build useful
data & AI systems.

And help teams deliver them.

From field engineering across five countries to regional analytics leadership, my work connects hands-on development, business priorities, and people across cultures.

Khoa Pham
Khoa PhamEngineer by background.
Builder by practice.

05countries in field engineering

APACanalytics team leadership

MSccontinued study in data & AI

01 / Selected work

Built. Led.
Learned.

Three perspectives on the work:
technical depth, practical impact,
and the curiosity to keep building.

01 / Independent research & development

MedSegAPI

From a thesis to working software.

A lung-segmentation model, an API, deployment, and monitoring. An end-to-end exercise in turning research into something usable.

Explore the repository
Real MedSegAPI output, showing the original chest X-ray, predicted lung mask, green segmentation overlay and model results side by side.
Actual model output. Research software; not clinically validated.

My contributionModel experiments, serving API & monitoring

Built withPyTorch · FastAPI · Docker · GitHub Actions

What I built & learned

I explored how local image features and global context work together in a hybrid CNN–ViT model, then built the serving layer with logging, monitoring, and automated deployment.

The Montgomery + Shenzhen adaptive-hybrid experiment reported 96.65% Dice. Testing dataset shifts and model variants taught me why a benchmark alone cannot establish real-world reliability.

02 / HEINEKEN · APAC analytics

Making manufacturing
data useful.

I led data engineers and business analysts, translating operational questions into data use cases and aligning technical teams, brewery operations, and global stakeholders.

APAC Data Analytics Manager

Filtration use case180hours

less manual work
per brewery, per year.

Result documented in my CV

UnderstandTurn operational questions into data use cases.

BuildGuide pipelines, architecture and governance.

AlignConnect technical choices to business priorities.

My role & the result

As APAC Data Analytics Lead, then Manager, I guided architecture and governance across analytics for filtration, energy, water, and equipment performance. Industrial IoT pipelines, PostgreSQL, InfluxDB, and Power BI connected sensor data to operational decisions.

Senior stakeholder presentations and regional training helped connect the technical choices to business priorities. The filtration result is documented in my CV.

Experience & results in my CV

03 / Personal proof of concept

Research Radar

From a paper to a short video.

I connected research discovery, assessment, media generation, and delivery into one AI workflow—triggered through Telegram.

Read the build story
Research Radar architecture diagram from Khoa’s LinkedIn post, connecting discovery, assessment, generation, rendering and Telegram delivery.The workflow, as shared in my build post
Inside the workflow

I connected a Telegram trigger to paper discovery, filtering, assessment, script and media generation, video rendering, and delivery. The goal was to learn by making a complete workflow useful.

A related experiment, Finance Brain, explores document extraction and classification with SQLite and a LangGraph ReAct agent. Both are personal proofs of concept.

Read the build story
Actual Airflow project DAG: stage events and songs, load fact and dimension tables, then run data-quality checks.

Also built / Udacity coursework

Data pipelines,
from end to end.

Data modeling, cloud storage, transformation, and orchestration—with checks that make the data usable.

SQL, AWS, Spark, Airflow

See the projects
Also explored: Interview Agent Team hackathon prototype

The team prototype combined LangGraph, Gemma, Qwen, Whisper, and Edge TTS for a voice interview. I took the candidate role in the demo and shared the experiment.

See the hackathon story
More projects on GitHub

02 / How I lead

Close to the work.
Clear with people.

Technical decisions move forward
when people understand the why.

Khoa speaking to an MBA classroom at RMIT Vietnam, with students gathered around tables.Make the technical understandable.Guest speaker · RMIT Vietnam MBA
01

Stay hands-on.

Build, evaluate, and deploy. Understand the trade-offs before guiding the team.

02

Build a shared direction.

Connect technical decisions to business priorities—for engineers and non-technical stakeholders alike.

03

Work across cultures.

Five countries, Airbus France, and APAC teams. Listen, adapt, and find common ground.

Recognition / HEINEKEN · 2023

The Develop ChampionD&T of the Year

View in my CV

03 / The path here

A different field.
The same curiosity.

I changed careers through daily coding,
practical projects, and formal study.
Learning became a way of working.

2012–2021

General Field Engineering

Baker Hughes

Real-time operational data and client coordination in Vietnam, Oman, Malaysia, the UAE, and Australia.

2022

Data Engineer

FPT Software / Airbus Skywise

PySpark, SQL, and AWS pipelines for Airbus France, with a focus on data lineage and reliable delivery.

2022–2026

APAC Data Analytics Manager

HEINEKEN

APAC Data Analytics Lead from August 2022; Manager from January 2025 to April 2026.

2026–Present

Data & AI Product Manager

VNG Corporation

Data & AI Product Manager since May 2026. Data and AI products, agentic workflows, and tools for how people work.

Asian Institute of Technology / 2025

Master of Science
(Professional)

Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Applications

3.94/ 4.00 GPA

Project examination
Excellent

Awarded 17 December 2025. My research on hybrid CNN–ViT lung segmentation became the foundation for MedSegAPI.

VNU–HCM, University of Natural Sciences / 2012

Bachelor of Science
in Geology

The foundation of my engineering career.

A background in understanding physical systems, working with evidence, and solving problems in the field.

UdacityUdacity

Study. Apply. Repeat.

Six Udacity Nanodegree programs completed alongside the career transition.

  • Data Scientist
  • Introduction to Machine Learning with PyTorch
  • AWS Machine Learning Engineer
  • Introduction to Programming
  • Data Engineering with AWS
  • Data Analyst

SQL (Basic & Intermediate)
HackerRank certificate, 2021

Practical Project Management
Atoha training, 2023

Full learning history in my CV

04 / Notes from the work

Learn it.
Make it understood.

Build something. Think it through.
Share what you learn.

05 / Start a conversation

Useful work starts
with a conversation.

Data and AI leadership, a meaningful collaboration,
or a problem worth building for.