Hey, I'm Nerdy Mike 👋

Remote software engineer crafting AI systems, RAG architectures, and e-commerce solutions from Ho Chi Minh City 🇻🇳. Currently debugging why my chess AI thinks knights move like Grab bikes while sipping my 4th cà phê sữa đá ☕

🤖 AI & Machine Learning🛒 E-commerce Optimization🔍 RAG Systems💰 Fintech

Latest Adventures

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The Legal Research Challenge: Why Traditional Search Falls Short

Building a RAG System for Legal Precedent Discovery - How I tackled the $2.3 million question of finding relevant legal precedents in massive court opinion datasets
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The Probabilistic Nature of Large Language Models

A framework explaining why LLM performance degrades with task complexity, grounded in information theory, cognitive science, and software engineering; includes metrics and practices for context engineering and human-AI collaboration.
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Building a High-Performance Expression Engine with AST and React 18 Concurrent Features

How I transformed a regex-based expression evaluator into a blazing-fast AST-powered system with seamless React integration
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The Chess Mind Project: Building Better Chess Analysis Tools

A Vietnamese dev with an ML obsession builds an AI-powered chess analysis tool because apparently my 1750 rating needs more than just cà phê sữa đá to improve
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The Chronicles of ORACLE

A digital fairy tale about ORACLE, an AI assistant designed to transform information overwhelm into effortless mastery for multi-project developers.
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