Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Kyet Tran

Linux / Systems Engineer building toward DevOps & Cloud.

I work with Linux systems, servers, and infrastructure — and I'm steadily moving deeper into automation, containerization, and cloud technologies. Most of what I know started with a real problem on a real server.

Linux Systems Infrastructure DevOps

About

A bit of context

I'm Kiệt — a systems engineer in my early twenties, based in Ho Chi Minh City. I studied Information Technology at Ho Chi Minh City Open University and moved into Linux system administration early on. My day-to-day involves working with production-like Linux environments: managing services, troubleshooting server issues, handling storage, networking, and keeping things running.

I'm not someone who came to infrastructure from the application side. I started close to the machines — terminals, logs, config files, boot problems — and I'm gradually expanding outward toward automation, containers, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure.

Outside infrastructure, I train consistently at the gym and keep working on improving myself — technically and otherwise. I'm also actively improving my technical English and professional communication.

Experience

Where I am now

Linux / System Engineer

~1.5 years of practical system and infrastructure experience

Working with Linux servers in a production-like environment. Day-to-day responsibilities include system administration, service management, storage and networking configuration, troubleshooting, monitoring, and supporting infrastructure operations.

Timeline

Now → Next

DevOps / Cloud / Infrastructure Engineering

Building deeper skills in containers, CI/CD, Kubernetes, monitoring, and cloud infrastructure. This is where I'm heading.

2024 – Present

System Engineer

Linux server administration, production infrastructure, troubleshooting, storage, networking, mail systems, and monitoring.

University

Information Technology

Ho Chi Minh City Open University. Built the academic foundation and started working with Linux systems and networking.

Beginning

Curiosity

Started exploring computers, operating systems, and how things work under the surface.

Technical Stack

What I work with

Operating Systems Strong Foundation

Linux Ubuntu Rocky Linux CentOS Windows Server

System Administration Strong Foundation

systemd Bash shell scripting cron process mgmt log analysis storage filesystems

Networking & Infrastructure Hands-on

TCP/IP DNS SSH iptables Nginx HAProxy pfSense Tailscale NFS RAID

Web & Mail Infrastructure Hands-on

Nginx Apache TLS/SSL Certbot qmail SMTP SPF RBL PHP

Virtualization & Containers Hands-on

Docker Dockerfiles VMware MySQL Node.js Next.js

DevOps & Monitoring Currently Developing

CI/CD Kubernetes Prometheus Grafana automation deployment pipelines

Infrastructure

Real systems, real problems

Most of my experience comes from working with actual infrastructure rather than only following tutorials. I've dealt with production-like server environments, legacy migrations, hardware issues, and the kind of problems that don't have a clean Stack Overflow answer.

Infrastructure Lab Architecture

Internet pfSense HAProxy App Servers Database

VMware-based lab environment for learning infrastructure architecture end-to-end

Troubleshooting approach

Observe Isolate Reproduce Fix Verify

Problems I've actually worked through

disk full failed services boot issues kernel/module problems broken mounts storage failures mail delivery RBL / reputation SPF failures SMTP rejection Nginx config Certbot renewal Apache/FastCGI Node.js runtime MySQL imports Docker builds Elasticsearch iptables server hardware

Projects

Things I've built and worked on

Infrastructure

CentOS 6 → Rocky Linux 8.9 Migration

Worked on migrating a legacy CentOS 6 server environment to Rocky Linux 8.9. This involved filesystem migration with rsync and tar, user and group migration, handling mounted storage and permissions, dealing with legacy init systems, DRBD-related issues, and recovering services including Elasticsearch.

Linux Rocky Linux rsync tar DRBD storage Elasticsearch system administration

What it taught me

Practical exposure to legacy infrastructure migration and the complexity of keeping services, users, permissions, and storage consistent across operating systems. There's no "clean" migration — every real system has edge cases.

Infrastructure Lab

End-to-End Infrastructure Lab

Built a lab environment using VMware to understand infrastructure architecture from network edge to database. The setup includes pfSense for firewall/routing, HAProxy for load balancing, application servers, and a database backend — all running on virtual machines with Linux.

VMware pfSense HAProxy Linux networking monitoring

What it taught me

Understanding how traffic flows from the internet through firewalls, load balancers, and application layers. Building this from scratch gave me a much clearer picture of infrastructure architecture.

Full Stack

Next.js E-Commerce Application

Worked with Next.js, Node.js, and Tailwind CSS to build a full-stack e-commerce application. Explored frontend/backend concepts and Docker-related deployment workflows.

Next.js Node.js Tailwind CSS Docker

What it taught me

Understanding enough application development to better operate and deploy applications as a systems/DevOps engineer. Knowing what the application needs makes infrastructure decisions clearer.

Direction

Where I'm going

Current

Foundation

Linux Systems Networking Shell scripting Docker

Building next

Automation

CI/CD Kubernetes Prometheus Grafana Infra as Code

Direction

DevOps & Cloud

Cloud infrastructure Platform engineering Reliability Scalable systems

Less abstraction. More understanding.

I'd rather understand how something works under the surface than use a tool that hides the complexity. That's how I approach systems, and that's how I learn.

Education

Academic background

Information Technology

Ho Chi Minh City Open University

GPA 8.05 / 10

Equivalent ~3.2 / 4.0

Location Ho Chi Minh City

Solid academic foundation combined with strong practical infrastructure experience and continuous self-learning. Most of the useful things I know came from working on actual systems.

Contact

Get in touch

Interested in infrastructure, DevOps, or just want to talk systems? I'm always open to connecting with other engineers.

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