Tech LeadatChongLuaDaoChongLuaDao is a Vietnamese non-profit cybersecurity organization led by former hacker Ngo Minh Hieu (Hieu PC) to protect citizens from online scams, with AI-powered and community-driven tools.
Jan 2025Present
Key contributions
- Led a team of 4 to build an AI-powered scam website detector with 300+ daily active users, winning 2 national awards (Nhan tai Dat Viet and Make in Vietnam).
- Integrated multiple frontier LLMs and a LoRA fine-tuned open-source model to balance cost and performance.
- Architected an entire agentic RAG system for a scam adviser AI combining vector-based search, keyword search, tool calling, and real-time web search, reaching over 3,000 users.
- Developed and deployed 3 full-stack web apps on a network of virtual private servers.
- Optimized legacy frontend code to boost Lighthouse performance from 60/100 to 100/100.
- Optimized legacy APIs to serve from thousands to millions of requests per day.
- Set up reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare, and rate limiting to prevent abuse.
- Configured monitoring & automatic alerts for all API endpoints.
- Served as the sole technical point of contact for 10 international partners.
Tech stack
Next.js
SolidJS
TypeScript
Python
PostgreSQLRedis
MinIO
Docker
Products shipped

An AI-powered scam website detector that classifies threats with LLMs, explores sites with a live browser agent, integrates multiple threat intelligence sources, and extracts identifiers like emails, phone numbers, social media profiles, and crypto wallets.

A Zalo chatbot that checks malicious websites, phone numbers, analyzes images for scam signals, and answers online safety questions based on ChongLuaDao's knowledge base.
A game where players try to determine what is real (legitimate) and fake (fraudulent), including websites, emails, messages, videos, and images.
A comprehensive web application designed to help users improve their digital security through personalized checklists, security assessments, and progress tracking.
























