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Phan Thanh Huy — Embedded Software Engineer

Embedded engineer building bare-metal drivers, FreeRTOS firmware, FPGA accelerators and IoT systems — close to the metal, from registers and RTOS tasks to edge AI.

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Binh Thanh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Portrait of Phan Thanh Huy
U1 · PTH-2004 online
Thesis & projects graded A / A+
3
Competition & academic awards
5
Years mentoring C/C++ & CP
2+
GPA / 4.0 at HCMUT
3.1

Platforms & tools I build with

  • C
  • C++
  • STMicroelectronics
  • Espressif
  • Arduino
  • Kria
  • Embedded Linux
  • PlatformIO
  • TensorFlow Lite
  • Firebase
  • Git
  • Python

01About

Close to the metal, focused on reliable firmware.

Computer Engineering graduate from HCMUT who enjoys the layer where software meets silicon — and who loves teaching it to others.

Overview

I’m Thanh Huy, an embedded software engineer who designs firmware for MCUs and FPGAs — from bare-metal drivers and RTOS tasks to hardware-accelerated AI at the edge.

  • Strong in C/C++, OOP, data structures & algorithms, and problem-solving.
  • Solid Embedded C fundamentals — pointers, memory layout, bitwise operations, volatile and interrupts.
  • Hands-on with STM32, ESP32, Arduino, Micro:bit and FPGA; GPIO, ADC, PWM, timers and UART / SPI / I²C.
  • Co-Founder & Technical Leader of FTES, mentoring C/C++ and competitive programming for 2+ years.

Currently

  • Ban Vien logo

    Embedded Software Engineer

    Ban Vien Corporation · on site at Bosch

  • FTES logo

    Co-Founder & Technical Leader

    FTES — EdTech startup

Education

HCMUT logo

Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT)

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering

Period
08/2022 — 06/2026
GPA
3.1 / 4.0
main.c — STM32F103
/* LED heartbeat from a timer ISR */
#define GPIOC_ODR \
    (*(volatile uint32_t *)0x4001100C)

void TIM2_IRQHandler(void) {
  TIM2->SR &= ~TIM_SR_UIF; // clear flag
  GPIOC_ODR ^= 1U << 13;   // PC13 LED
}

Focus

  • Embedded Software
  • Firmware Development
  • Microcontrollers
  • FPGA / SoC
  • IoT

Vietnamese (native) · English — TOEIC L&R 675

02Experience

Shipping firmware by day, building a startup alongside.

Professional embedded work, a company I co-founded, and the engineering degree behind both.

  1. Ban Vien logo

    Embedded Software Engineer

    Ban Vien Corporation · Ho Chi Minh City

    Now2026 — Present

    On-site clientBosch logoBosch Global Software Technologies VietnamOfficeHaus, Tan Phu, Ho Chi Minh City

    Ban Vien engineer assigned on site to Bosch Global Software Technologies Vietnam (BGSV), Bosch’s software and engineering centre in Ho Chi Minh City.

    • Developing and maintaining embedded software in C/C++ for Bosch, working day-to-day inside the Bosch team.
    • Working across the firmware stack — peripherals, drivers, RTOS tasks and hardware bring-up.
    • Following Bosch engineering processes: code review, testing and documentation. Project specifics are under NDA.
    • Bosch
    • Embedded C
    • C/C++
    • MCU
    • RTOS
    • Drivers
  2. FTES logo

    Co-Founder & Technical Leader

    FTES · Ho Chi Minh City

    Now2025 — Present

    FTES is a tech-education startup — “your learning operating system” — combining structured programming courses, live mentoring and FrosTES, an AI teaching assistant.

    • Co-founded the company (incorporated 08/2025) and lead its technical direction and product.
    • Mentor for C/C++ and competitive programming for 2+ years, guiding students from fundamentals to contests.
    • Grew FTES to 4,000+ learners and close to 1B VND revenue in its first year; raised a 100M VND first round.
    • Leadership
    • Mentoring
    • EdTech
    • AI
    • Product
  3. HCMUT logo

    Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering

    Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT)

    Thesis: FPGA-Based SoC for ECG Signal Classification — Grade A

    08/2022 — 06/2026

03Startup

Building FTES, AI learning for tech learners.

The company I co-founded and lead technically — from first users to funding and national recognition in its first year.

FTES logo

FTES

AI-learning platform for technology learners

FTES (First Technology Education Solution) pairs human mentors with AI tools — real-time code help, AI grading, personalised roadmaps and auto-generated quizzes — so IT students learn by building real projects.

Co-Founder & Technical LeaderVisit ftes.vn
learners across 5 FPTU campuses
4,000+
VND revenue in the first year
~1B
VND raised in the first round
100M
startup milestones in 2025
6

Learners & revenue: FPT University, 05/2026

Milestones · 2025

100M VND2025

First funding round closed

Investment-connection day · Vietnam National Startup Association

Raised 100 million VND in FTES’s very first fundraising round, pitching to investors and startup experts.

Top 4Dec 2025

Top 4 innovative startups — Gia Lai 2025

Gia Lai Department of Science & Technology

One of four startups selected to pitch for investment at the province’s 2025 innovation Demo Day.

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04Selected work

From sensor to silicon.

Three embedded systems built end-to-end — drivers, real-time firmware, hardware acceleration and the software around them.

ecg_classifier — kria-kv260 (SDL2)

LEAD II · 25 mm/s

prediction: NORMAL

CGRA · 16 PE

ARM A53
AXI / DMA
CNN core

class prob.

DMA readymmap 0xA000_0000int8SEG_LEN 320
A grade

UI recreation of the project software · sample data

01Graduation Thesis11/2025 — 05/2026

FPGA-Based SoC for ECG Signal Classification

A heterogeneous SoC on the AMD Kria KV260: a custom CGRA accelerator in Verilog runs an int8-quantised 1D-CNN, while Linux software on the ARM cores streams ECG segments over AXI/DMA and renders results live.

Platform
Kria KV260
Accelerator
CGRA · 16 PE
Model
1D-CNN · int8
Input
320-sample segments
  • Integrated a custom CGRA/CNN accelerator (Verilog: PE array, MAC, quantiser, load/store units, AXI interface) with the ARM processing system.
  • Trained the 1D-CNN in Keras, quantised it to int8 and ported inference to C/C++ to bit-match the hardware.
  • Wrote the Linux user-space driver: mmap of AXI register windows and DDR, DMA transfers, start/finish handshakes.
  • Built a real-time SDL2 dashboard that plots each ECG segment next to the predicted class.
View source of FPGA-Based SoC for ECG Signal Classification on GitHub
  • Verilog
  • C/C++
  • Embedded Linux
  • AXI
  • DMA
192.168.4.1 — yolo-uno dashboard

Temperature

28.4°C

Humidity

65%

FreeRTOS tasks

Pump ON
  • taskWebServer8192 B
  • taskConnectWifi4096 B
  • taskSendConfigToFirebase4096 B
  • taskReceiveFirebaseHandle4096 B
connectedLittleFS /index.htmlfirebase synced
A+ grade

UI recreation of the project software · sample data

02Embedded Project08/2025 — 10/2025

ESP32 IoT Monitoring & Control System

An ESP32-S3 node that monitors temperature and humidity and drives a water pump, LCD and RGB LED — every job is its own FreeRTOS task, controlled from an on-device web dashboard and Firebase.

MCU
ESP32-S3 (Yolo UNO)
RTOS
FreeRTOS multitasking
Cloud
Firebase RTDB
UI
Web app on LittleFS
  • Split the firmware into independent FreeRTOS tasks: Wi-Fi, web server, Firebase sync, sensing, pump, LCD and LED.
  • DHT20 over I²C, PWM-driven actuators and NeoPixel status feedback.
  • Served a responsive HTML/JS dashboard from LittleFS and synced configuration both ways with Firebase as JSON.
View source of ESP32 IoT Monitoring & Control System on GitHub
  • ESP32-S3
  • FreeRTOS
  • C++
  • PlatformIO
  • I²C
plant-health — react dashboard

Healthy

AI classifier

Soil climate · 24h H T

STM32 → ESP32 {T:29.1,H:63}

ESP32 → AI classify(segment)

AI → APP status: healthy

UART linkSTM32F103RBtask scheduler
A+ grade

UI recreation of the project software · sample data

03Embedded Project04/2025 — 06/2025

AI-Integrated Plant Health Monitoring

A dual-MCU plant monitor: bare-metal STM32 firmware with its own task scheduler collects sensor data, hands it to an ESP32 over UART, and an AI model classifies plant health for a React dashboard.

MCU
STM32F103RB
Firmware
Bare-metal + scheduler
Link
UART → ESP32
App
React + TypeScript
  • Wrote HAL-based drivers for the DHT20 sensor, I²C LCD and RGB status LED in Embedded C (STM32CubeIDE).
  • Built a lightweight task scheduler to run sensing, display and communication jobs periodically without an RTOS.
  • Framed sensor packets over UART to an ESP32 gateway feeding the AI health classifier and web dashboard.
View source of AI-Integrated Plant Health Monitoring on GitHub
  • STM32F103
  • Embedded C
  • HAL
  • UART
  • I²C

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05Awards & recognition

Recognised for building things that work.

Competition results with the Sysma team and academic honours from HCMUT. Tap a photo to see the moment.

Phan Thanh Huy holding the First Prize board at the Startup SIU 2023 final round

Phan Thanh Huy holding the First Prize board at the Startup SIU 2023 final round

First Prize

Startup SIU 2023

Saigon International University logo

Saigon International University — 5th Student Scientific Research & Startup Competition

Won first prize at the final round of the 5th Student Scientific Research and Startup Competition (academic year 2022–2023).

Apr 2023Sysma Team
Sysma team receiving the Fourth Prize at the AIoT Developer InnoWorks 2022 final round

Sysma team receiving the Fourth Prize at the AIoT Developer InnoWorks 2022 final round1/2

Fourth Prize

AIoT Developer InnoWorks 2022

Advantech logoHCMUT logo

Advantech × HCMUT — “Code the future”

Reached the final round of the AIoT application development contest hosted by Advantech (WISE-PaaS) and HCMUT, receiving the Encouragement (Fourth) Prize of 6,000,000 VND.

Dec 2022 — May 2023Sysma Team
VIFOTEC certificate of merit for the 2023 student science and technology award

VIFOTEC certificate of merit for the 2023 student science and technology award1/2

Fourth Prize

National Science & Technology Award for Students

Ministry of Education and Training & VIFOTEC

Encouragement (Fourth) Prize in the 2023 Science and Technology Award for Students in Higher Education Institutions — certified by the Ministry of Education and Training and the Vietnam Fund for Supporting Technological Creations.

Nov — Dec 2023Team of 5 students
Team at the CSE MINATHON 2024 programming contest beside the event banner

Team at the CSE MINATHON 2024 programming contest beside the event banner

Most Voted Team Award

CSE MINATHON 2024

HCMUT logo

Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, HCMUT

Most Voted Team Award at CSE MINATHON 2024, the faculty’s programming contest held on 6–7 April 2024 at the VNU-HCM Student Cultural House, with atWare Vietnam as partner.

Apr 2024
Framed Outstanding Student certificate from the HCMUT Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering

Framed Outstanding Student certificate from the HCMUT Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering

Outstanding Student 2022–2023

Outstanding Student Award

HCMUT logo

Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, HCMUT

Recognised as an outstanding student of the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering for the 2022–2023 academic year.

Mar 2024

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06Toolkit

The stack I reach for.

Languages0x01

  • C
  • C++
  • Embedded C
  • Verilog
  • Python (basic)

Microcontrollers & HW0x02

  • STM32
  • ESP32
  • Arduino
  • Micro:bit
  • FPGA (Kria KV260)

Protocols & Buses0x03

  • UART
  • SPI
  • I²C
  • AXI
  • Wi-Fi
  • REST

Peripherals0x04

  • GPIO
  • ADC
  • PWM
  • Timers
  • Interrupts
  • DMA
  • Sensors
  • Relays

Systems0x05

  • FreeRTOS
  • Embedded Linux
  • Computer Architecture
  • Operating Systems
  • Digital Logic
  • HW/SW Co-design

Tools0x06

  • STM32CubeIDE
  • PlatformIO
  • VS Code
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • Firebase

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Soft skills

  • Technical Leadership
  • Mentoring
  • Problem Solving
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Teamwork
  • Communication

07Contact

Let’s build something that boots on the first try.

Open to embedded / firmware collaborations, mentoring and FTES partnerships. My inbox is always open.

Say hello
Based in
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam