Kato at FPT Software
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🚀 Joining FPT Software — The Beginning
In early 2024, I joined FPT Software, one of Vietnam’s largest technology firms, as part of the GHC.DHM business unit, a division focused on global healthcare data platforms.
GHC.DHM also staffs engineers onto customer teams. On the US engagement I was a Staff Software Engineer at the largest healthcare company in the United States: employed by FPT Software, outsourced into their data organization. That work was a Snowflake and AWS cloud data platform, a standardized warehouse, pipelines, and CI/CD, with technical leadership of a team of five.
🌟 “Rising Star” Award — First Months of Impact
Within my first few months, I was honored with the Rising Star recognition. It marked the start of a journey that wasn’t just about delivering data pipelines — but about elevating how FPT designs, builds, and governs healthcare data systems.
My focus was on building:
- Standardized data pipelines with Snowflake and dbt Cloud
- CICD-ready analytics architecture with Jenkins and GitOps
- Governance-first data warehouse schemas for healthcare compliance
🏆 Best Performance 2024
By the end of 2024, I received the Best Performance Award for my contributions to GHC.DHM’s data modernization project. The recognition reflected our success in:
- Delivering a Lakehouse Platform on Kubernetes
- Deploying real-time ingestion with Kafka and Flink
- Architecting secure healthcare data flows compliant with US standards
- Leading cross-functional teams (Data, Backend, AI)
⭐ FSOFT Star 2025
In 2025, I was honored to be named FSOFT Star 2025 — one of 500 individuals recognized group-wide for outstanding contribution to FPT Software’s AI-driven journey. The recognition reflects not only delivery and results, but dedication, proactive innovation, and putting collective success first — the same spirit that drove FSOFT to $1.33B revenue and $224M profit: “Dare to Learn, Dare to Change, Dare to Lead.”
💡 Hackathon Spirit — Building Beyond Projects
One of my favorite parts of working at FPT is the Hackathon culture — where innovation happens fast, teams collaborate across functions, and creativity leads to real impact. Over two years, that culture turned into a scoreboard:
- 🥇 First Prize — NRC × FPT Hackathon 2025 — AI Insights Chatbot, a multi-agent knowledge-graph RAG system that turns raw healthcare feedback into entity-level, sentiment-aware insights. → Read the case study
- 🥇 First Prize — GHC.DHM Hackathon 2024 — AI in SDLC, an assistant that writes, tests, and ships code alongside the team. → Read the case study
- 🥈 Second Prize — FPT HackAIthon 2025 — SuperVault, an AI-powered video knowledge platform that makes hours of training content searchable. → Read the case study
- 🥉 Third Prize — Optum (UnitedHealth Group) internal Hackathon — competing outside the FPT arena, against engineers at one of the largest health services organizations in the US.
The NRC × FPT win and the Optum placement mattered most to me for the same reason: both were judged by people who live in the healthcare domain every day, not just by a technical panel. Winning there means the idea actually held up against the problem.
These moments reminded me that engineering isn’t just about delivering projects — it’s also about building ideas that challenge the norm. Or as I like to say:
“Not just running projects — but running hackathons too.” 💪
To look all projects we did in Hackathon, please see Projects section.
✈️ Onsite in Malaysia — Expanding Horizons (2025)
In 2025, I went onsite to Kuala Lumpur, collaborating with the FPT Software Malaysia team 🇲🇾 on a healthcare data platform engagement. It was a memorable experience — presenting our data platform, addressing client questions, and strengthening how we stand up, share knowledge, and deliver real value together.
It reinforced one principle: Architecture is alignment — of teams, of goals, and of data.
🧠 Health Intelligent and Interoperability Platform
Alongside the client staffing, I designed HIP, FPT’s AI-powered health data platform, end to end as Solution Architect. The job covered the bid, the fullstack build (data, AI, and application), and leading the team that proposed it to the customer as Forward Deployed Engineer and Solution Architect.
The platform connects clinical sources through FHIR and HL7, then puts governed data and AI on top. Three accelerators ship with it:
- Mapwise: AI data integration and interoperability. It maps sources to FHIR, OMOP, or a custom schema, and harmonizes records with a human approval trail.
- AnonyMinds: detects and anonymizes PHI and PII across text, images, and databases.
- MediCoder: AI-assisted medical coding for ICD-10-CM, ICD-10-PCS, and ICD-9-CM, with source evidence and an audit trail.
The Azure deployment, Flexzi HIP, is listed on Microsoft Marketplace. The full write-up is the HIP case study.
🔧 What I Learned and What I Shared at FPT
Working at FPT has been both technical and transformational — a journey of learning, leading, and sharing.
Here’s what I’ve learned:
- Leadership through architecture — guiding engineers by clarity, not control.
- Balance between delivery and governance — scaling systems without losing quality.
- People > tools — great technology comes from collaboration and shared ownership.
But learning goes both ways. Over time, I’ve also become a Speaker and Knowledge Sharer across internal workshops and tech sessions at FPT Software — covering topics like:
- Modern Data Processing Architectures — Spark, dbt, Airflow, and orchestration best practices.
- Building Data Lakehouse Platforms — using Trino, Iceberg, and governance-driven design.
- AI in Products — Integrating machine learning / Agentic AI into real-world products after Hackathon contest.
These sessions became more than technical talks — they became a way to inspire teams, exchange perspectives, and help engineers see the “why” behind every architecture. I’ve grown into a familiar face at FPT’s internal workshops — known for simplifying complex topics and connecting data with real business value.
“Engineering is not just about solving problems — it’s about designing progress.”
At FPT Software, I’ve found a place to do both — building platforms that transform healthcare data while constantly evolving as an architect, mentor, and engineer.
🎓 Credentials behind the sharing
Sharing only carries weight if the fundamentals are solid. FPT Software Healthcare & Life Sciences featured two international certifications I earned as a Tech Lead at the Global Healthcare Center — Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) from DAMA International and Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
The pairing is deliberate rather than a badge collection: data governance and cloud architecture are the two halves of trustworthy AI in healthcare. One keeps HIPAA/GDPR compliance and patient-data integrity intact; the other makes the platform — Microsoft Fabric, vector databases, AI accelerators — actually stand up in production.
© 2025 Kato (Quan Ngo) — Data Architect, GHC.DHM @ FPT Software