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hi khang here. 👋

Product Manager, Ex-Software Engineer from Vietnam 🇻🇳

I've defined features, run the research, and let data make the call - as PM Extern for NewsCorp and as VP of UF VISA. My edge is my technical background as a software engineer.

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    Extern (Hosted by NewsCorp)

    Product Management Extern

    • Collaborated with NewsCorp's product team to define and prioritize new features for the NY Post mobile app
    • Mapped the end-to-end NY Post user journey, identifying key friction points and drop-off stages across the reader experience using product and user data
    • Conducted competitive benchmarking of NY Post against competing news products to identify gaps in user acquisition
    • Prioritized a new app feature using RICE scoring, and authored a PRD defining scope, user stories, and success metrics
    • Built a prototype in Canva, following UX/UI design principles to design the end-to-end user flow for new features
    • Coordinated focus groups for testing, synthesizing qualitative and quantitative insights into a structured findings report
  • V

    Vietnamese International Student Association @ University of Florida (UF VISA)

    Vice President

    • Coordinated a team of 20 members spanning across 4 cross-functional committees (Programming, Logistics, Marketing, and Decoration) to execute events for 200+ attendess
    • Fundraised over $7,500 for the organization through sponsorships and partnerships with local businesses, university administration, and other student organizations, increasing our budget by 150% compared to the previous year
    • Conducted user research and analysis through interviews, surveys, and past event feedback to identify user demographic and key pain points to drive data-informed decisions for event planning and marketing strategies
    • Led the programming committee to plan and execute 7+ events, coordinating stage performances, activities, giveaways, as well as food and beverages for each event
    • Contributed to strategizing marketing campaigns, including fund allocation for giveaways and creating and designing content and graphic assets to support event outreach.
  • U

    UF Society of Asian Scientists & Engineers (UF SASE)

    Backend Software Developer

    • Developed and maintained the organization's website using React, TypeScript, and Hono (Bun), providing service to over 200 students at the University of Florida.
    • Optimized RESTful services with Redis caching, reducing average response time by 40%, ensuring high performance.
    • Implemented rate-limiting middleware, type-safe validation schemes (with Zod and TypeScript), and comprehensive unit/integration testing to ensure reliability and maintainability
    • Designed and optimized relational schemas in SQLite (Turso) with Drizzle ORM.
  • U

    UF Embedded Systems Lab

    Undergraduate AI Researcher

    • Assisted in research for a new Quantum AI architecture that can learn and reconstruct missing features of data samples.
    • Engineered patch selection and masking strategies using quantum circuits with Python, PyTorch, and PennyLane.
  • O

    OSC MiniHack Hackathon

    Full Stack Developer

    • Recognized as 1 of 2 projects for Best Project Demo out of 53 submissions
    • Developed a Chrome extension in 24 hours using React and Node.js that leverages Google Gemini AI to provide writing assistance on the fly with customizable tones and styles
    • In charge of AI integration, frontend development, and chrome extension conversion
  • J

    JukeBox

    Frontend Developer

    • Build a public landing page for JukeBox, an open-source music queueing system designed for users to interact with and manage a shared music playlist
    • Implemented the UI using React, TypeScript, and SASS/SCSS, closely following designs from Figma

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