Hi, I’m Cuong

I build full-stack AI apps, from agentic RAG systems to cybersecurity and EdTech platforms, serving tens of thousands of real users.

AI & Full-stack Web

Tech Lead atChongLuaDao

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Le Nguyen Viet Cuong

Experience

Tech Lead & AI-Driven Threat HunteratChongLuaDao

Jan 2025Present

Key contributions

  • Led a team of 4 to build an AI scam website detector with 300+ daily active users, earning 2 national awards: Nhan Tai Dat Viet and Make in Vietnam.
  • Fine-tuned custom AI models on ~700K datapoints to screen millions of suspicious URLs, reaching 99.06% accuracy and detecting 200K+ malicious sites in 2 months.
  • Built an agentic RAG scam adviser using vector search, keyword search, and web search for 3,000+ users.
  • Built platforms for government agencies, including Vietnam Cyber Security Magazine's CyberZ and Digital Trust Alliance clubs in Gia Lai and Hai Phong.
  • Developed a "real or fake" awareness game for 25,000+ players.
  • Boosted Lighthouse performance from 60 to 100 and scaled legacy APIs to millions of daily requests, secured with reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare, rate limiting, and automated alerts.
  • Sole technical point of contact for 10+ international partners.

Tech stack

  • Next.jsNext.js
  • SolidJSSolidJS
  • TypeScriptTypeScript
  • PythonPython
  • GoGo
  • PostgreSQLPostgreSQL
  • RedisRedis
  • MinIOMinIO
  • DockerDocker

Reference letter

From Ngo Minh Hieu (Hieu PC) – CEO of ChongLuaDao

Reference letter from Ngo Minh Hieu (Hieu PC)

Products shipped

chongluadao.vn
chongluadao.vn

Scam website detector powered by LLMs and threat intelligence, with a live browser agent.

bit.ly/cldzalo
bit.ly/cldzalo

Chatbot on Zalo that checks for scam signals and answers online safety questions based on ChongLuaDao's knowledge base.

tracnghiem.chongluadao.vn
tracnghiem.chongluadao.vn

Game about spotting real vs. fake websites, emails, messages, videos, and images.

Full-stack Developer & AI EngineeratCyPeace

Mar 2026Present

Key contributions

  • Built an enterprise threat intelligence platform for major Vietnamese banks and government agencies, processing terabytes of security signals across 20+ microservices.
  • Architected end-to-end data pipelines with automatic crawling and AI analysis to detect impersonation websites, social media mentions, leaked credentials, source code, and dark web incidents.
  • Developed an AI agent for analysts to investigate across the platform's databases, with OSINT tools, data exports, and executive DOCX/PDF report generation.
  • Implemented tenant isolation, role-based access control, and audit logging.

Tech stack

  • SolidJSSolidJS
  • TypeScriptTypeScript
  • PythonPython
  • GoGo
  • PostgreSQLPostgreSQL
  • ClickHouseClickHouse
  • TimescaleDBTimescaleDB
  • RedisRedis
  • DockerDocker
  • GitHub ActionsGitHub Actions
  • ResendResend

Product shipped

tip.cypeace.net
CyPeace threat intelligence dashboard
tip.cypeace.net

Threat intelligence platform unifying leak detection, threat feeds, VIP monitoring, managed investigations, and an AI analyst agent.

Full-stack Developer & AI EngineeratLumist

MayAug 2025

Key contributions

  • Built a science-backed AI vocabulary system for 1,000+ learners.
  • Integrated LLMs for personalized test analysis and question answering.
  • Implemented a complete admin dashboard for analytics, user, and content management.
  • Resolved a critical performance issue for 5x faster page loads.

Tech stack

  • Next.jsNext.js
  • TypeScriptTypeScript
  • SupabaseSupabase
  • Vercel AI SDKVercel AI SDK

Product shipped

lumist.ai
lumist.ai

An all-in-one Digital SAT prep platform with an extensive question bank, AI-driven performance analysis, predictive scoring, gamification, and more.

Projects

Examinai

AI-powered IELTS Learning Platform

Writing feedback breakdown
Grading dashboard
Speaking assessment view
  • Built a platform for IELTS Speaking and Writing with 1,000+ practice tests and AI examiners, combining LLMs with text-to-speech and speech-to-text, reaching 100+ users organically.
  • Architected assessment flows with multiple LLM judges, official marking criteria, structured outputs, and response streaming.
  • Built an agentic RAG system with an IELTS knowledge base for accurate question answering.

Tech stack

  • Next.jsNext.js
  • TypeScriptTypeScript
  • PythonPython
  • SupabaseSupabase
  • Vercel AI SDKVercel AI SDK

InfiniteCompute

E-commerce Store for GPUs with AI Advisor

AI advisor recommending a build
GPU catalog
Admin analytics dashboard
  • Built a complete e-commerce store with order tracking, reviews, coupons, and an admin dashboard.
  • Created an AI advisor via agentic RAG with product database access and real-time web search.
  • Dockerized all services for reproducibility across environments.

Tech stack

  • Vue.jsVue.js
  • PythonPython
  • FastAPIFastAPI
  • PostgreSQLPostgreSQL
  • DockerDocker
  • OpenRouterOpenRouter

Research

Published

Content-Aware Malicious Website Detection Using Multilingual BERT

Springer Nature - Scopus Q2 - Discover Computing

Content-aware malicious website detection architecture: hybrid ensemble combining transformers, TF-IDF logistic regression, and XGBoost
  • Trained 20+ models across transformers, traditional ML, and hybrid ensembles, reaching 99.06% accuracy on a 68,954-sample test set and surpassing 4 prior works by up to 8.28%.
  • Compiled and cleaned a dataset of 689,556 webpages from four real-world sources.
  • Designed an HTML-to-Markdown preprocessing pipeline that cut input length by over 96%.
  • Trained in parallel on a network of cloud GPUs, optimizing cost and performance.
Read the paper
Published

A Novel Spam Review Detection Architecture Using Large Language Models

FETC 2025 - International Conference

Spam review detection architecture: ViSpamReviewV2 dataset feeding a preprocessing pipeline into the Llama 3.1 model
  • Fine-tuned 3 LLMs using LoRA to detect spam reviews on Vietnamese e-commerce platforms.
  • Surpassed prior work in accuracy (92.12% vs. 88.54%) and F1 score (78.86% vs. 73.49%).
  • Compared architectures and sizes in detail (PhoBERT vs. Llama 1B, 8B, 70B).
  • Deployed the models with serverless GPU inference for scalability and cost-effectiveness.
Read the paper

Recognition

Vietnam Television (VTV) coverage

VTV9 nationwide anti-scam panel
Dec 2025

VTV9 nationwide anti-scam panel

Panelist on VTV9's nationwide anti-scam campaign with Viettel Security and the Ministry of Public Security, sharing the tech perspective alongside policy and law-enforcement experts.

VTV9 talk show: AI-powered scam prevention
Sep 2025

VTV9 talk show: AI-powered scam prevention

Featured guest on VTV9's Kính Đa Chiều talk show, breaking down how AI can be used to detect and stop online scams targeting Vietnamese users.

VTV9 talk show: Living in the age of AI
Dec 2025

VTV9 talk show: Living in the age of AI

Returning guest on Kính Đa Chiều to discuss the broader impact of the AI era, from everyday productivity to the new risks it brings.

VTV9 talk show: Inside AI-powered scam tactics
Mar 2026

VTV9 talk show: Inside AI-powered scam tactics

Invited back to Kính Đa Chiều to walk viewers through emerging AI-driven scam techniques like deepfakes, voice cloning, and AI-generated phishing.

Education