Lan Pham
Platform mentor — Linux automation
Former payments platform lead; obsesses over boring unit files.
// about_story
We teach delivery systems, not keynote optimism
Surge Blaze started as a release-engineering critique circle for HCMC product teams who were tired of laminated “DevOps transformation” posters. Today we still optimize for diffs you can defend in a CAB: GitHub Actions, Argo CD, Prometheus-shaped telemetry, and blunt postmortems. Learner support keeps calendars honest; mentors keep narratives grounded in Vietnamese regulatory context.
Operating principles
Traceable changes
If it cannot be diffed, it is not ready for a production conversation.
Humane on-call
We teach incident craft without glorifying burnout heroics.
Local context
Materials assume Vietnamese regulatory and vendor realities, not Silicon Valley defaults.
Mentor candor
Feedback aims at the artifact—pipeline YAML, Helm chart, alert rule—not the person.
Milestones
2019
First HCMC release-engineering studio
Pilot cohort of twelve engineers from logistics and fintech squads.
2021
Blended delivery formalized
District 11 lab opens for whiteboard-heavy critiques between async modules.
2024
Observability + GitOps joint track
Partnered with three platform guilds to co-design drift drills and telemetry contracts.
Team roster · 13
Minh Tran
Release engineer — CI/CD
Moved three product lines to policy-as-code pipelines.
Diep Nguyen
SRE coach — Kubernetes
Builds small clusters that fail loudly before production does.
Quang Vo
Observability coach
Led Prometheus/Grafana adoption for a ledger stack.
Hanh Le
Release manager
Coordinates cutovers with blunt, readable change records.
Son Ho
Platform mentor — GitOps
Specializes in declarative delivery for regulated workloads.
An Bui
Release engineer — IaC
Reviews Terraform plans like code review, not magic spells.
Vy Chau
Observability coach — incidents
Former incident commander for payment traffic peaks.
Ngoc Dang
Learner support coordinator
Keeps cohort calendars honest and rooms booked.
Huu Pham
Learner support coordinator
Routes AV issues before they become outage drills.
Trang Le
Platform mentor — security handoffs
Maps secret rotation to pipeline gates without drama.
Kien Vo
Release engineer — build systems
Optimizes CI queues without hiding queue time metrics.
Yen Hoang
Observability coach — analytics hygiene
Stops dashboards that only look good in demos.