Dat Diep

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

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

Apr 2021 – Present
  • 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
AWS Azure Terraform Python Node.js Lambda Jenkins

Cloud Engineer

LECLE · Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Dec 2020 – Apr 2021
  • 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
AWS EC2 EOSIO IAM S3

Software Engineer

KMS Technology · Vietnam

Feb 2018 – Dec 2020
  • 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
ASP.NET React GraphQL DevOps

Skills

Cloud & Infra

AWS Azure GCP Terraform Kubernetes Docker Helm ArgoCD

Languages

Python Go Node.js JavaScript TypeScript

Dev & Ops

Jenkins CI/CD Lambda IaC FinOps

Frontend

React GraphQL ASP.NET

Certifications

Highlighted below · Full list on Credly

Elite

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

Get in Touch

Open to cloud engineering opportunities, FinOps consulting, and Kubernetes community collaboration.