Duy Nguyen shares her journey from Business Development to Operations at Dwarves, exploring her strengths and passions along the way as co-founder of Techie Story

Duy Nguyen

#6 Duy Nguyen on finding her path

Duyen Tran shares her experience as a contributor to Techie Story, a Dwarves community initiative that highlights the journeys of tech professionals around the world

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#28 Duyen Tran on Techie project

We helped CIMB Malaysia transform their wealth management services by building a robust backend system that connects their new user-friendly platform with existing bank systems, enabling customers to manage investments more easily.

CIMB

Building CIMB's digital wealth platform for better customer experience

We built Hedge Foundation, a powerful crypto trading dashboard that helps professional traders manage multiple accounts, track positions, and automate order execution in real-time across exchanges.

Hedge Foundation

Building a powerful crypto trading dashboard for professionals

We helped Kafi Securities rebuild their stock trading app to work better for both beginners and experienced traders, making investing more accessible for everyone.

Kafi

Kafi: making stock trading easier for everyone

We helped Open Fabric build a payment platform that makes it easier for stores to accept digital payments across Southeast Asia. Our team built the core technology and delivered a working product within a year.

Open Fabric

Building a payment platform from scratch

Discover how Dwarves use inefficiency arbitrage to spot and solve client tech gaps. Learn practical ways to find opportunities and deliver value.

Inefficiency arbitrage

This document explains how tech cycles affect market changes. This knowledge helps our planning and how we advise clients.

Technology cycles

After forming our market thesis, here's how we decide which experiments are worth building. A practical framework for turning tech bets into focused action.

Experiment selection

Choose what to build

Discover how our growth engine spots new tech trends early. This guide shows you how to use it to find consulting opportunities and stay ahead of market shifts.

The growth engine

Learn how to maintain our tech edge and delivery quality. This guide shows you how to stay ahead in consulting by building know-how, experimenting, and sharing knowledge.

Keep it sharp

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Learn how card sorting improves information architecture and user experience by organizing content based on real user feedback for clearer navigation in websites and digital products.

Card sorting and a glimpse at experimental sorting session

Learn how Gestalt principles like Proximity, Similarity, and Closure improve UI design by organizing elements for better usability, clear visual hierarchy, and enhanced user experience.

Gestalt principles in UI design

Learn how to create strong digital design layouts using grids, columns, gutters, and responsive techniques to make your graphic and web designs look clean and professional.

Grid and layout

Learn effective design system naming conventions for colors, text styles, and components using Figma tools and atomic design to improve UI consistency and team collaboration.

How a design system work

Learn why spacing is key in design, affecting content, graphics, navigation, and overall aesthetics to create a balanced, clear, and engaging user interface.

The principle of spacing in UI design part 1

Learn the best UI design spacing tips for vertical and horizontal elements, including line-height, paragraph spacing, input fields, and icon alignment to improve readability and user experience.

The principle of spacing in UI design part 2

Learn how blue-green deployment reduces downtime and risk by switching traffic between identical environments, improving software reliability and flexibility for seamless updates.

Radio talk 60 blue green deployment

Learn how improper Webpack code-splitting can cause React virtual lists to reset scroll position unexpectedly and how grouping related chunks fixes navigation glitches in mobile-first PWAs.

Be careful with your code splitting setup

Learn how migrating to a Turbo-powered monorepo cut build times by 60%, boosted developer productivity by 40%, and simplified dependency management in a real trading platform case study.

From multi repo to monorepo a case study with Nghenhan Turbo monorepo

How to deal with technical debt in Scrum

Learn how to navigate large, established codebases without losing your sanity. Discover technical strategies, cultural insights, and AI assistance for thriving in complex systems.

Working with legacy code

We build financial systems that work. From payment platforms to DeFi protocols, we've helped startups and banks across Southeast Asia create secure, scalable fintech solutions.

Fintech

Fintech expertise & solutions

Our documented takes on technology waves that shape our direction. Each arc explores breakthrough technologies, explains why they matter, and captures our evolving perspective on building better software.

Our bets 🧙‍♂️

Our takes on the waves that shape us

LLM-generated market thesis documents following our five-step methodology. Think of this as our research workspace where we collect and analyze tech trends before crafting final versions for our arc series.

Market thesis raw analysis

A deep dive into building a robust transfer tracking syste m for Binance accounts, transforming disconnected transaction logs into meaningful fund flow narratives through SQL and data analysis

Building better Binance transfer tracking

This article provides an overview of the importance of tracking Bitcoin-Altcoin performance indicators in a trading strategy known as Hedge, and explains how to visualize this data effectively. It also demonstrates how to render a chart for this strategy using Matplotlib and Seaborn

Tracking Bitcoin-altcoin performance indicators in BTC hedging strategy

A technical case study for implementing centralized monitoring for a trading platform using Grafana and Prometheus, focusing on real-time alerts, data integrity, and resource optimization to prevent financial losses.

Setup centralized monitoring system for Hedge Foundation trading platform

Implementing a Golang-based visualization for crypto market performance indicators, focusing on Bitcoin vs Altcoin dynamics and trading strategy effectiveness through interactive charts and data analysis

Visualizing crypto market performance: BTC-Alt dynamic indicators in Golang

Discover how a trading platform mitigated database access risks, enhanced security, and ensured data integrity through role-based access control, network isolation, MFA, and robust logging. Learn about the strategies and tools, like Teleport, that transformed operational efficiency and reinforced client trust.

Database hardening for a trading platform

A comprehensive guide on improving cryptocurrency transfer logging systems to provide better transparency and traceability for users and developers.

Transfer mapping: enhancing loggers for better transparency

Implementing Binance Futures PNL Analysis page with Phoenix LiveView to optimize development efficiency. This approach reduces the need for separate frontend and backend resources while enabling faster real-time data updates through WebSocket connections and server-side rendering.

Implement Binance Futures PNL analysis page by Phoenix LiveView

How do we migrate normal table to timescale table to optimized data storage

Migrate regular tables into TimescaleDB hypertables to improve query performance

Discover the technical strategies behind optimizing a Binance trading platform, reducing initial load times to under 1 second for enhanced trader productivity.

Optimizing initial load time for a trading platform

Designing the UI for a blockchain-based hedge fund platform like Hedge Foundation is not just about creating a visually appealing interface. The real challenge lies in ensuring that complex financial data is presented in an intuitive, understandable way that helps users make quick investment decisions. Optimizing the UI plays a crucial role in allowing investors to access accurate data without feeling overwhelmed by excessive information.

Hedge Foundation - optimizing UI for effective investment experience

A technical exploration of implementing the data snapshot pattern for efficient historical data persistence

Implementing data snapshot pattern to persist historical data

A detailed look at how we rebuilt historical trading PnL data through an efficient data pipeline approach, transforming a complex problem into a maintainable solution.

Reconstructing historical trading PnL: a data pipeline approach

2020 in review

This year’s Echelon X in Singapore was a bustling hub of innovation, bringing together around 10,000 participants. Along with visiting SPGroup, our team also attended Echelon X to have a better understanding of how the tech and startup ecosystem is heading.

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