Profile
Builder, consultant, and founder — based in Da Nang, Vietnam.
The last decade has been spent building things that work: AI pipelines, web platforms, automation tools, and a few companies in between. Telecoms infrastructure in Europe, a startup in Bristol, running raves in South Korea from a soundsystem I built myself, then a full pivot into software. Different industries, different countries, same instinct — find the problem, build the solution.
The through-line is simple: find the hard thing, learn it, build it.
I can entertain a room or go dark for three months obsessing over an idea — sometimes both in the same week. Direct when it matters, good company when it doesn't. You get a straight opinion, not a managed one.
Most useful for: organisations that need technical leadership without a full-time hire; founders who know something needs building but aren't sure what; anyone who needs someone to walk in, figure it out, and ship it.
AI Engineering & Automation
Multi-agent systems, RAG pipelines, image AI, custom LLM tooling.
Full-Stack Development
Web apps, dashboards, APIs, mobile. From prototype to deployed product.
Technical Consulting
Diagnose the problem, scope the work, build it, hand it off. When the brief doesn't exist yet.
Photography
Nightlife events, raves, underground music. Landscape across Southeast Asia and Europe.
@picsbytomo
Experience
8 roles
6 production AI applications. Multi-agent orchestration systems, RAG pipelines, image AI automation at commercial scale. Organised and delivered AI-dea — a government-contracted AI hackathon run in partnership with a Daegu university. First of its kind in the region.
Self-Employed · Remote / Worldwide
Engaged when the problem isn't scoped and specialist risk is too high. Diagnose, build, iterate, systematise, hand off — the full cycle from ambiguity to documented process. Breadth across full-stack development, AI tooling and automation, branding, photography, marketing, video/audio production, and business process design.
Self-Employed · South Korea, Vietnam, UK
Event, portrait, and landscape photography across South Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, and the UK. Rave and underground music events; landscapes across Southeast Asia and the UK; weddings, product shoots, modelling, and a brand fashion shoot in Vietnam. Published in the Daegu Compass (2017). Portfolio at
@picsbytomo.
DCDC Power · France & Germany
Brought in to lead field operations across France and Germany. Managed 5–6 remote field engineers across two countries. Critical power infrastructure in telecoms.
Service Software Ltd · Bristol, UK
Founded and led TableService — an end-to-end mobile ordering platform for hospitality. In-venue ordering, takeout, and a planned B2B pipeline connecting suppliers directly to venues. Built from concept to MVP with a 4-person dev team. Product ownership, Agile delivery, UI/UX design, Azure DevOps. Project wound down following a breakdown in technical leadership.
Klaxon Sounds · Daegu, South Korea
Founded and ran Klaxon Sounds end-to-end — built the soundsystem from scratch (carpentry, electrical engineering, Arduino), hired venues, managed bar and door staff, handled graphic design, marketing, and event promotion. Cooked American BBQ at events; the food became a draw in its own right and put the operation into profit. 13 headline events, 10+ open deck nights, and a community built from nothing. Recognised by Seoul Community Radio as the first dedicated rave soundsystem in South Korea. The Cosmic event was featured in the Daegu Compass.
EPIK Program / Daegu Education · South Korea
Regular English and IT classes across two schools — 700+ students in the final two years alone. Developed a game design curriculum from scratch for Global Station, a government-run cultural centre where every primary school child in Daegu (grades 3–6) rotated through. In a single 40-minute session: enough English to communicate and enough Microsoft Kodu to build a basic game. The curriculum was used to promote the centre and covered in the Daegu newspaper two or three times.
DCDC Power · UK & Europe
Critical power infrastructure in telecoms across UK, France, and Germany. Progressed from technician to site manager. Site manager on 3-month Verizon refurbishment project in Edinburgh.
Selected Projects
5 shown · 2 under NDA
FLUX generation, SAM2.1 segmentation, canvas-based editor. Reduced hero image creation from hours to 15 minutes. In production for 1+ years.
Next.jsTypeScriptPythonFastAPIFLUXSAM2.1CUDA
Production GitOps system with event sourcing, DDD patterns, LangGraph state machines. PostgreSQL checkpoints for pause/resume. Real-time WebSocket dashboard.
LangGraph.jsTypeScriptPostgreSQLBullMQRedisWebSocket
Semantic search across PDF collections. Email ingestion, OCR for scanned documents, multi-modal support. Cited answers with page numbers and document names.
PythonLangChainFAISSPineconeTesseractChromaDB
Complete production template with Supabase auth, Stripe payments and webhooks, Pinecone RAG, Electron desktop packaging.
Next.jsElectronSupabaseStripePineconePostgreSQL
Transforming valuecanvasprints.co.uk and thecanvasprintingcompany.co.uk from product sellers into a B2B drop-ship platform. Any Shopify store owner can instantly launch a custom print/merchandise business using their fulfilment infrastructure.
ShopifyTypeScriptNode.jsLiquidWebhooks