Than Van Hong Son

I am an AI Engineer based in Da Nang with 3+ years shipping production AI — multi-agent LLM pipelines running fully on local GPUs, real-time computer vision, and end-to-end MLOps. I have a background in Data Science & AI and a Master’s in Computer Science in progress, plus a first-author Springer publication.

Today I build the AI core of a real-time multilingual meeting assistant at FPT Software, while leading a part-time AI team at BK High Tech on an end-to-end comic-localization pipeline. I am strongest at turning research-grade models into products that run fast and cheap in production.

Than Van Hong Son

AI Engineer

Da Nang, Vietnam

• 3+

  Years in AI

• 2

  Publications

• 2

  Awards

1. FPT Software · AI Engineer

   Present Jun 2026 — Present

   Real-time Meeting Intelligence Da Nang, Vietnam

   Building the AI core of a real-time multilingual meeting assistant — live transcription, diarization and meeting Q&A.

   • Build the AI core of a real-time meeting assistant: live transcription, speaker diarization and meeting Q&A.
   • Designed the streaming-quality benchmark for STT + translation (CER, BLEU, COMET/XCOMET, StreamLAAL, RTF) on SimulEval.

   STT Diarization LLM SimulEval Real-Time Streaming

2. BK High Tech · AI Lead (Part-time)

   Present Jul 2025 — Present

   Comic AI Translation Remote · Da Nang, Vietnam

   Leading a cross-functional AI team building an end-to-end comic-localization pipeline that runs fully on local GPUs (part-time since Jun 2026).

   • Lead a cross-functional AI team — task allocation, resources and roadmap — building an end-to-end comic-localization pipeline (OCR → translation → inpainting) that replaces most manual localization work.
   • Designed a LangChain multi-agent orchestration system that improves translation quality and consistency using fully local LLMs, with no external API dependency.
   • Brought cloud inference cost to zero via quantization and VRAM management, running the entire stack on constrained consumer GPUs.
   • Used time-series monitoring of model metrics to forecast system resource requirements.

   LangChain LLM OCR Inpainting Quantization Multi-Agent

3. Permate · AI / Product R&D Specialist

   Apr 2024 — Jan 2026

   Performance-marketing Platform Da Nang, Vietnam

   Drove AI/product R&D for a performance-partnership platform — from MLOps infrastructure to fraud and customer-journey analytics.

   • Designed an MLOps platform on Airflow, Jupyter, Feast, MLflow, Grafana and Docker.
   • Researched and deployed a Lead Management System for a FinTech R&D project targeting the US market.
   • Built a time-series solution to detect and prevent customer fraud.
   • Implemented customer-journey analysis and cross-visit device fingerprinting.
   • DevRel: bridged Sales, Marketing and Dev teams, supported client integrations and owned project documentation.

   MLOps Airflow MLflow Feast Time-Series FinTech

4. BK High Tech · AI Engineer — Generative AI

   Sep 2023 — Mar 2024

   Pixor AI Da Nang, Vietnam

   Built generative-AI features for a consumer text-to-image product powered by Stable Diffusion.

   • Researched Stable Diffusion papers and applied text-to-image generation in production.
   • Built a hashtag classification model with MobileNetV2.
   • Trained face recognition (ResNet50) and face swapping (SimSwap) models.

   Stable Diffusion MobileNetV2 ResNet50 SimSwap PyTorch

5. Smartinside AI · AI Engineer Intern — Computer Vision

   Mar 2023 — Aug 2023

   Construction-site Monitoring Remote · Korea

   Applied AI to monitor real construction sites — multi-camera tracking, safety detection and 3D scene understanding.

   • Enhanced tracking and re-ID efficiency for multi-camera multi-object tracking (MOT).
   • Deployed real-time MOT pipelines with NVIDIA DeepStream.
   • Estimated crack length and calibrated cameras for on-site deployment.
   • Predicted worker movement trajectories and detected fall incidents.
   • Built a point-cloud map of the site from depth-map estimation.

   DeepStream MOT Re-ID Depth Estimation Camera Calibration

6. BKCIT · .NET Developer Intern

   Oct 2022 — Mar 2023

   IT Center Management System Da Nang, Vietnam

   Developed management features for DUT-UD’s IT-center system.

   • Automated the arrangement of candidates into exam sessions and rooms.
   • Implemented the user interface and CRUD modules for employees, posts and courses.

   .NET C# SQL CRUD

• Computer Vision · Edge AI

  First author

  A Deep Learning Approach for Real-Time Detection and Evaluation of Oranges on Mobile Devices

  Than Van Hong Son, Tran Dinh Minh Khoa, Luong Thien, Le Duc Tho, Le Viet Hung

  Proc. 1st Int. Conference on SETSM 2024 — Springer · 2024

• Transformer · 3D Pose Estimation

  A Deep Learning Framework for Gym-gesture Recognition Using the Combination of Transformer and 3D Pose Estimation

  Le Viet Hung, Han Le Hoang Ngoc, Tran Dinh Minh Khoa, Than Van Hong Son

  Cybernetics and Physics Journal, 2024 · 2024

• GenAI / LLM

  LangChain Multi-Agent Systems Local LLM Deployment Quantization Prompt Engineering Stable Diffusion

• Computer Vision

  PyTorch TensorFlow / Keras MOT & Re-ID DeepStream OCR Pose Estimation Face Recognition

• MLOps & Data

  Airflow MLflow Feast Docker Grafana SQL / NoSQL Time-Series

• Languages

  Python C / C++ C# JavaScript R

• Master's student · Computer Science

  Oct 2025 — Present

  Da Nang University of Science and Technology

• Bachelor's degree · Data Science & AI

  Oct 2020 — Aug 2024

  Da Nang University of Science and Technology

  GPA: 3.47 / 4.0 Very good

Notes on AI engineering, computer vision and building products.

• Aug 6, 2026

  AI Doesn't Hack in an Instant, but It Has Changed Security's Clock

  From the OpenAI - Hugging Face incident to who actually owns secure software: AI is not magic, but its speed and scale have changed the game.

  AI Security Software Engineering

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• Aug 6, 2026

  Office Politics Is Really About How We Treat Each Other

  Office politics does not have to mean scheming or rivalry. Sometimes it begins with a coffee, a lunchtime game, and the trust we build through small acts every day.

  Workplace Career Leadership

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• Aug 6, 2026

  Don't Just Fix Vulnerabilities: Learn to Manage Risk

  CIA, AAA, vulnerabilities, threats, exposure, controls, and four risk responses - a practical foundation for moving from finding bugs to reducing business risk.

  Security Risk Management Software Engineering

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