Resumé

💼 Experience #

• TopCV Vietnam Joint Stock Company #

  • Data Science Manager (10/2020 - 10/2025)

    • Built and scaled Data Science team from scratch to 18 members (currently 13), establishing hiring processes, team structure, operating cadence and technical roadmap
    • Led development of AI-powered features for Vietnam’s largest career platform, serving millions of users: CV Parser, Job Recommendation, Candidate Recommendation, JD-writing assistant, Automated job-post moderation, …
    • Established a company-wide data culture - strategic business and product decisions are consistently data-driven.
    • Designed and operated a data platform on 2 different environments (cloud 2020-2024, on-premise 2025), with continuous improvements in reliability, performance, and cost efficiency
    • Mentored and upskilled the team, fostered a high-performance working culture, and led company-wide Data & AI Literacy programs

  • AI Engineer (01/2020 - 09/2020)

    • Launched the CV Parser initiative, defining annotation standards, building the data-labeling pipeline, and developing extraction models
    • Partnered with domain stakeholders to map business workflows and identify high-impact AI use cases across product and operations

• YBox Menteelogy #

  • Mentor (03/2023 - 08/2024)

    • Shared practical Data Science knowledge and industry experience via 1:1 sessions for 17 mentees
    • Reviewed resumes, helped mentees build recruiter-ready portfolios, and prepare for interviews

• Finsify Limited Company #

  • Data Scientist/Lead of AI Team (09/2017 - 08/2018)

    • Led AI team in developing financial technology solutions using machine learning
    • Built ML features for a personal financial management app: bank transaction classification, captcha recognition
    • Designed and implemented data pipelines for real-time processing

• VNG Corporation #

  • Research Scientist (08/2016 - 04/2017)

    • Prototyped and proposed a real-time fraud detection system for ZaloPay
    • Built the NLU module for the 123Xe dialog system—Vietnamese intent classification and slot filling

• RichAnchor Technology #

  • Machine Learning Engineer (03/2016 - 08/2016)

    • Developed ML models for content recommendation system of an online book store: Document classification, Entity Extraction
    • Implemented end-to-end ML pipelines from data collection to model deployment

🏫 Education #

• City University of Hong Kong #

  • Ph.D. Student in Computer Science (09/2018 - 12/2019)

    • Research topic: Multi-modal dialogue system

    • Supervisor: Prof. Chong-Wah Ngo

    • Status: Left program to pursue industry

• FPT University #

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science (09/2011 - 12/2015)

    • Capstone Project: Building a Semantic Role Labelling Toolkit for Vietnamese

    • GPA: 8.63/10

📝 Publication #

• Building a Spoonerism Detection System for Vietnamese #

  • Thai-Hoang Pham, Xuan-Khoai Pham

  • Proceedings of the 32nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, Hong Kong, ACL Anthology, 2018

• NNVLP: A Neural Network-Based Vietnamese Language Processing Toolkit #

  • Thai-Hoang Pham, Xuan-Khoai Pham, Tuan-Anh Nguyen, Phuong Le-Hong

  • Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Taipei, Taiwan, ACL Anthology, 2017

• On the Use of Machine Translation-Based Approaches for Vietnamese Diacritic Restoration #

  • Thai-Hoang Pham, Xuan-Khoai Pham, Phuong Le-Hong

  • Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Asian Language Processing, Singapore, IEEE, 2017

• Building a semantic role labelling system for Vietnamese #

  • Thai-Hoang Pham, Xuan-Khoai Pham, Phuong Le-Hong

  • Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Digital Information Management, Jeju Islands, South Korea, IEEE, 2015

🛠️ Technical Skills #

Programming & Languages #

• Languages: Python, SQL
• ML/DL Frameworks: PyTorch, Scikit-learn, XGBoost, flair-nlp, LangChain/LangGraph
• Data Engineering: Apache Spark, Airflow, ETL Pipelines, Data Warehousing
• Cloud & Infrastructure: GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, MLflow

Domain Expertise #

• Machine Learning: Supervised/Unsupervised Learning, Deep Learning, Ensemble Methods
• Natural Language Processing: Vietnamese NLP, Text Classification, Named Entity Recognition, Semantic Analysis
• Data Science: Statistical Analysis, A/B Testing, Experimentation, Data Visualization
• Leadership: Team Building, Technical Mentoring, Cross-functional Collaboration, Strategic Planning

Tools & Platforms #

• Development: Git, Jupyter, VS Code, CI/CD
• Data Tools: Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Plotly
• ML Ops: Model Deployment, Monitoring, Versioning, Production Systems

🏅 Achievement #

• Third Prize (Rank 10), ACM-ICPC Asian Regional Contest (site Vietnam) - 2015

• Honorable mention (Rank 21), ACM-ICPC Asian Regional Contest (site Thailand) - 2015

• Second Prize, Informatics Olympic Contest for Students, Division A - 2014

• Third Prize, National Contest for gifted students, Subject: Physics - 2011