Pho Huynh
Front-end Technical Lead & Software Architect. Co-founder of Conceptual Studio, founder of CCLY Studio. A decade of shipping fast, human interfaces — and leading the teams behind them.
My own studios.
Two places I put my name on the door — and deeply invest in, across design, engineering, and every call in between.
Conceptual Studio
Independent product studio.
We design, build, and ship digital products end-to-end — from brand and strategy through architecture, engineering, and launch.
CCLY Studio
Solo studio for premium Ghost themes.
Self-published Neon and Vestige — newsletter-first themes for creators. Bespoke work on the side.
Interfaces that feel obvious. Teams that ship.
I specialize in pairing design sensibility with engineering rigor — leading frontend architecture, mentoring teams, and shipping my own products through Conceptual Studio and CCLY Studio.
Things I've designed, built, and shipped.
A mix of products from Conceptual Studio and CCLY Studio alongside platform work at scale.
Neon
A bold, animated Ghost theme for creators with personality.
Premium Ghost 6 theme for newsletters and creators. Dark mode, membership-ready, lifetime updates. Shipped through CCLY Studio.
Vestige
Reading-focused Ghost theme for newsletter writers.
Editorial-grade typography, calm pacing, and a reader-first layout. Built for writers who take their craft seriously.
Yield Guild Games
Web3 gaming platform for Yield Guild Games.
Binance
Trading and NFT surfaces for the world's largest crypto exchange.
Hello Health Group
Regional health media platform serving millions across SEA.
A decade, nine roles, one craft.
From ASP.NET intern to Lead Engineer across Vietnam, Malaysia, Belgium, and remote-first teams.
Yield Guild Games
Oct 2024 — PresentLeading a full-stack team on the Play Platform. Architected auth flows, feature flags, redemption funnels, and DevOps on DigitalOcean + Dokploy + Traefik.
Freelance
Oct 2023 — Oct 2024Consulted on front-end architecture, delivery, and team leverage for early-stage product companies across SEA.
Binance
Oct 2021 — Oct 2023Designed and implemented user-facing web interfaces at exchange scale. Mentored juniors, led reviews, optimized performance.
Hello Health Group
Oct 2020 — Oct 2021Led a 20-person frontend team. Defined technical vision, set up DevOps, ran hiring/reviews/budgets.
FPT Software (Belgium)
Mar 2019 — Aug 2020Led the frontend team and client communications. Translated business needs into plans and estimates.
GoQuo Malaysia
Jun 2017 — Mar 2019Travel booking web applications. Task management, code reviews, and mentoring.
Leflair Vietnam
Jun 2016 — Jun 2017E-commerce frontend. SEO, accessibility, and performance work.
QUOINE
Jun 2015 — Jun 2016Responsive frontend applications and UX collaboration.
FPT Software
Jan 2014 — Jun 2015Server-side apps, APIs, and code reviews. Where it all started.
What I reach for.
Opinionated, pragmatic, and current. The stack bends to the problem.
Senior leadership, without the full-time hire.
For founders and small teams who need architectural depth, delivery discipline, and someone who has run their own studios and shipped real products — on a schedule that fits the stage.
Technical direction
Architecture reviews, stack decisions, and roadmap shaping — so the next six months aren't a rewrite.
Delivery unblockers
Diagnose why shipping is slow. Fix the real bottleneck: CI, environments, scope, or org.
Team leverage
Hiring bars, review culture, mentorship structures. Turn a team of nine into a team that ships like twenty.
Zero-to-one
Sit in as interim CTO for early-stage teams. From whiteboard to production with discipline.
Have a hard problem?
I like hard problems.
Open to lead engineering roles, architecture consulting, and ambitious product work. Based in Vietnam, comfortable across time zones.