// the tour

Welcome aboard. I'll be your guide today.

I used to do this for a living — guiding visitors through central Vietnam. Today's itinerary is shorter: six stops through how a hotel receptionist ended up shipping software. Keep your arms inside the viewport at all times.

  1. 🛎️

    Stop 1 — The Hotel Lobby

    First job out of university: hotel receptionist. A foreign-language degree, no master plan, and a front desk where something is always slightly on fire. What it actually taught me: reading people fast, staying calm in chaos, and the ancient art of saying "no" so politely it sounds like "yes".

  2. 🚌

    Stop 2 — The Tour Bus

    Then I became an international tour guide in Da Nang. Forty strangers, a microphone, and zero room for boring. Storytelling on demand, English under pressure, improvising when the itinerary falls apart — turns out that is 80% of what people call "soft skills", learned the hard way.

  3. 🔍

    Stop 3 — The QC Room

    The pandemic cancelled tourism overnight. I took a QC course and got a job breaking software for a living. Plot twist: watching developers fix the bugs I found was more interesting than finding them. So I started teaching myself to code — nights, weekends, every spare hour.

  4. 💻

    Stop 4 — Crossing Into Code

    Two years of self-study later, I was a frontend developer. React first, then Vue. Offshore teams, EU partners, code reviews in English. The receptionist who picked a degree because it was "easy to get into" had become an engineer — by choosing something hard, on purpose, for the first time.

  5. 📈

    Stop 5 — The Marketing Machine

    Then I went deep into marketing tech: WordPress plugins and themes built end-to-end, an ad server, campaign automation, Vue apps embedded everywhere. I learned how traffic actually works — how content gets found, tracked and converted. Most developers never see this side. It changed how I build.

  6. 🧭

    Final Stop — Where the Map Ends

    Now I am pointing all of it — Vue, React, WordPress, the marketing instincts, and a growing obsession with AI tooling — at one direction: building tools that help people create and distribute content. The tour ends here. The interesting part starts here too.

end of tour — gift shop

No fridge magnets, sorry. But you can grab my CV, browse the projects, or email the guide directly. Five-star reviews also accepted.