I build React and TypeScript front ends for fintech, DeFi, and M&A. AI writes most of the code now, so the job that's left is the harder one: deciding what's actually correct, and saying "no, again" until it is.
Senior Front End Engineer
Primary front end on two production DeFi platforms (7K, AshSwap).
Senior Front End Developer
Compliant client-messaging front end for banks and regulated firms.
Front End Engineer
Front end for an M&A data room used in billion-dollar deals.
Front End / Full Stack Developer
Flynk, Designveloper, and Camos: where I cut my teeth.
LeapXpert
Compliant client messaging across WhatsApp, WeChat, and Teams for banks.
Ansarada
Tender evaluation and Q&A workflows on a billion-dollar M&A data room.
Flynk
A product-recommendation engine and retail-media dashboards for eCommerce.
Designveloper
Cross-platform PDF collaboration: view, annotate, and share.
Is JavaScript hard to learn? Easy to start, hard to master. The hard parts are specific (the event loop, this, closures, coercion), plus the AI-era catch.
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Tien Nguyen
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React Query vs Redux is the wrong question: one is server state, one is client state. Plus the real fight (RQ vs RTK Query) and the pattern AI still writes.
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Tien Nguyen
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Shallow vs deep copy in JavaScript: shallow shares nested refs, deep is independent. The React bug it causes, and why structuredClone beats the JSON hack.
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Tien Nguyen
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What a closure is in plain JavaScript, and the stale-closure bug it causes in React hooks: the one idea behind bugs AI writes and juniors paste unread.
Read articleThe honest version: the Claude Code workflows that stick, the tools that don't, and the front end craft underneath. Daily notes on X, the deeper write-ups here.
Shipping with Claude Code
The real workflows and skills, and the parts that broke.
Honest AI-tool takes
What's overhyped, and what actually holds up in production.
High-stakes front end
Real-time UI craft for fintech, DeFi, and M&A.
I take on a small number of front end and AI-engineering projects. Design systems, complex product UIs, agentic workflows, performance-critical interfaces. Tell me what you're building.
