Cloud Engineer
Dat Diep
Golden Kubestronaut · FinOps Specialist · Tri-Cloud Certified
Cloud Engineer with 7+ years of experience specializing in FinOps, cloud-native infrastructure, and Kubernetes. Golden Kubestronaut — awarded to engineers who complete all 11 CNCF Kubernetes certifications (fewer than 1,000 people globally). Tri-cloud certified across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Delivered $4M/year in cloud cost savings at NAB while scaling infrastructure to support 50+ applications.
About
Dat Diep
Cloud Engineer
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Cloud Engineer with 7+ years of experience specializing in FinOps, cloud-native infrastructure, and Kubernetes. Golden Kubestronaut — awarded to engineers who complete all 11 CNCF Kubernetes certifications (fewer than 1,000 people globally). Tri-cloud certified across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Delivered $4M/year in cloud cost savings at NAB while scaling infrastructure to support 50+ applications.
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
Ho Chi Minh University of Education · 2018
Honors & Awards
- 🏆 Vietnam National Olympiad in Informatics 2017 — 3rd Prize
- 🏆 ACM-ICPC Asia HCMC 2017 — 3rd Prize
- 🏆 Vietnam National Olympiad in Informatics 2016 — Consolation Prize
Experience
Cloud Engineer (FinOps Focus)
NAB · Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- ▸ Engineered automated right-sizing and resource scheduling across AWS & Azure using Python, Node.js on Lambda, and Terraform — reducing cloud spend by $4M/year
- ▸ Maintained flat cloud costs for 3 consecutive years despite onboarding 50+ new applications, demonstrating sustained cost efficiency at scale
- ▸ Initiated automated detection and remediation for idle resources — including load balancers and RDS instances with no connections for 7+ days — eliminating wasteful spend without manual intervention
- ▸ Built a centralized FinOps dashboard enabling all engineering teams to monitor usage, track savings, and self-serve cost optimization insights
- ▸ Delivered FinOps tooling via Jenkins CI/CD pipelines ensuring reliable infrastructure deployments across environments
- ▸ Mentored and grew a team of 4 graduate and junior engineers, building internal FinOps engineering capability
Cloud Engineer
LECLE · Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- ▸ Sole DevOps engineer supporting 3 development teams, owning all cloud infrastructure end-to-end
- ▸ Built and maintained a production EOSIO blockchain network deployed across 8 AWS regions on EC2, ensuring high availability and geographic redundancy
- ▸ Developed an internal platform for automated temporary AWS credentials provisioning, improving security posture by eliminating long-lived IAM credentials
- ▸ Supported cross-team cloud operations including S3 storage management, Load Balancer configuration, and general AWS infrastructure tasks
Software Engineer
KMS Technology · Vietnam
- ▸ Maintained and developed full-stack features for a production automotive web platform built on ASP.NET
- ▸ Contributed to a microservices migration, building frontend and API layers using React and GraphQL
- ▸ Took on DevOps responsibilities within an 8-person engineering team, managing deployment pipelines and infrastructure alongside development work
Skills
Cloud & Infra
Languages
Dev & Ops
Frontend
Certifications
Highlighted below · Full list on Credly
Golden Kubestronaut
CNCF
All 11 Kubernetes certifications — fewer than 1,000 people globally
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified Security – Specialty
Amazon Web Services
Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104)
Microsoft
GCP Associate Cloud Engineer
Google Cloud