Name: Quoc-Bao Nguyen
Title/Job Description: Lead Software Engineer (I do defensive security for enterprises, including writing software, building and running infrastructure for the security team)
Company: VNG
Location/Country:
First AArch64 device: Raspberry Pi 1
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/quocbao747/
Geekbench: quocbao's Profile - Geekbench
I do security by day and explore new things by night. I love working with hardware because it differentiates me from most engineers. I also enjoy community work where I can meet and talk to people. Currently, I’m a board member of the Viet Nam OpenInfra Community, a recognized community by the OpenInfra Foundation.
I started my research on ARM about four years ago when I first received the MacBook Pro M1. It’s amazing that the device is so fast while still maintaining long battery life. A question sparked inside me: “What if this ARM CPU goes into servers?” . That’s when my journey began. I gave a talk about ARM last year, where I discovered some IPC advantages of Ampere CPU compared to Intel and AMD CPUs
I’m building a small homelab at home, which should be completed in the next few months. So many challenges need to be solved. It will look like this after being completed:
