Hi! My name is Hiep Vuong and I head up the engineering efforts at ApplyBoard. At heart, I鈥檓 an Engineer who鈥檚 always looking at how technical solutions and methodologies can be used to solve problems in practical ways. I firmly believe that systems, technologies, and processes all need to bring some element of incremental value, even if that value is not initially obvious.
Engineering at ApplyBoard
With this mindset, I鈥檝e spent the last couple of months pondering how to utilize modern development approaches and concepts to help 星空影视in its mission to聽#EducateTheWorld. Specifically, I鈥檝e been looking at improving our聽international student applications聽service, as well as聽applications management.
I鈥檝e always been of the mindset that you first need to define the problem before you state the solution. It鈥檚 far too easy for us in the Engineering world to believe that聽聽are the solution to any web/service problem. As an Engineer, I believe we聽can聽make virtually anything work, but that mustn鈥檛 be confused with whether we聽should.
In the upcoming blog series聽#EducateTheEngineer, I鈥檒l be chronicling our decision journey at ApplyBoard. We鈥檒l explore the determination of how to apply modern approaches such as聽,听microservices, and聽, and whether they are actually good solutions. We鈥檒l also discuss the trials and tribulations of leveraging聽,听听(础奥厂), and other related systems and approaches. Last but not least, we鈥檒l look at the聽human impact聽of these choices.
Thank you for reading and stay tuned for the first post in ApplyBoard鈥檚聽#EducateTheEngineer聽series! If you鈥檇 like to help solve problems with us, take a look at the聽open positions on our career page聽and join our team!
Hiep Vuong
Vice President,
星空影视Engineering
