Ky-Nam 🧑‍🚀

Founder

United States6 yrs 8 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Founder of multiple startups with innovative solutions.
  • Expert in web development and project management.
  • Strong leadership in youth development initiatives.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS entrepreneur with a focus on youth engagement and educational technology.

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Web DevelopmentPrisma ORMTypeScriptExpress.jsTailwind CSSReact.jsHTMLCascading Style Sheets (CSS)JavaScriptProject ManagementLeadershipYouth DevelopmentEvent PlanningHuman ResourcesResearch

About

🙋‍♂️ Yo. I'm a GenZ indie hacker & startup builder. Check out: - engagekit.io to boost your LinkedIn outbound and organic inbound traffic - geekgrind.co to ace your next IGCSE and A-level exams with real exam question banks and AI tutors And 4 more apps to launch in 2025.

Experience

6 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 2 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 6 mos
Current Experience

Engagekit

Founder - CEO

Jun 2025Present · 11 mos

  • Empowering small creators and teams to build quality engagement pipelines on LinkedIn and boost their product/brand outbound.

Geekgrind

Founder - CEO

Nov 2024Present · 1 yr 6 mos

  • You failure human, go study at https://app.geekgrind.co

Sayu. studio

Chief Growth Officer

Jun 2024Aug 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • I help you make websites that scream "holy sh*t"
  • A website is an entrepreneur / builder identity
  • Yours could be functional that makes buying a breeze
  • Yet with award-winning design that make competitors envy
  • Some brands are born with vision & style. Starting small and aiming big.
  • Let me know if you are one of them :D

Ivatar

Creator

Apr 2024Oct 2024 · 6 mos · Hong Kong SAR · Remote

  • Make your own digital twin and interact with your audience at scale. You can sign up now for early access at ivatar.ai.
  • For the moment, I'm the sole builder of this project.

Crimson education

Entrepreneurship Mentor

Feb 2024Aug 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Crimson Rise Program for young students looking to make an impact on the world.

Stealth startup

Founder

Feb 2024Aug 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos

A.s. watson group

Sustainability Advocate

Aug 2023Apr 2024 · 8 mos · Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR

  • Just a non-makeup, non-skincare, non-bodycare consumer working for the world's largest health & beauty retailer.

University hall hku

Solo Webmaster

May 2023Jan 2024 · 8 mos · Hong Kong SAR · On-site

  • Designing online and offline presence for the oldest hall at HKU.
  • Our hall has the best website (by Ky Nam): https://uhall.hku.hk/

Lean social

Co-founder

Jun 2022Jun 2023 · 1 yr · Ho Chi Minh City Metropolitan Area

  • LEAN Social is a virtual study & work space that helps GenZ feel less lonely and more motivated to be productive. We offer a study-streaming ecosystem with a practical incentive system that aims to promote self-directed learning. Utilizing machine learning, the platform tracks and convert students’ learning time into tokens, which can be exchanged for gift vouchers (short-term incentives) or educational experiences like placement in a Bootcamps or MOOCs (long term incentives).
  • Sign up for our beta testing (website) to enjoy these features:
  • Live focus room to study with strangers
  • Virtual study space with to-do list and chilling backgrounds
  • Track concentration & earn rewards with A.I. technology

Stear - student think tank for europe-asia relations

Deputy Secretary

Oct 2021Nov 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo · France

  • Liaise with partners to conduct trainings in research writing & policy briefs
  • Keep track of (non)-numeric metrics to measure activities’ impacts & propose improvements
  • Lead a quantitative & qualitative study on youth’s perspective on Europe-Asia relations

Vingroup jsc

Corporate Strategy Intern

May 2021Sep 2021 · 4 mos · Hanoi, Hanoi, Vietnam

  • Vingroup is the largest conglomorate in Vietnam
  • Reported directly to Government Affairs Head in working with NGO and business partners
  • Drafted 20 reports (policies, EVs, & tech) for Chairman Vuong (richest man in Vietnam)
  • Assisted in a vaccine technology transfer project and a AI tech transfer project with Amazon

Duke university

Research Co-author

Jan 2021Nov 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos · Vietnam

  • Formed team of 3 to design an RCT experiment with 700 youths in Ho Chi Minh City
  • Study: Impact of political info on youth’s attitude & behavior in the VNA 2021 election
  • Literature review, experiment design, data analyses, qualitative interview, & result interpretation
  • Worked with Prof. Edmund Malesky (Duke) and Prof. Nguyen Thanh Trung (FUV)

Think tanks and civil societies program (ttcsp)

Research Intern

Jan 2021Apr 2021 · 3 mos

  • Literature review for a 100-page comprehensive report of the think tank scene in Vietnam
  • Research contacts to invite leaders of Vietnamese think tanks for to report launch event
  • Write executive summary and draft presentation to summarize research findings

Rosa-luxemburg-stiftung southeast asia-hanoi office

Policy Intern

Jul 2020Feb 2021 · 7 mos · Hanoi, Hanoi, Vietnam

  • Monitored projects & papers in socio-ecological transformation, gender equality, & labor rights
  • Advised the content of artbook/movie on the life of Rosa Luxemburg & democratic socialism
  • Organized library (physical & online catalog) of 1000 books for the public’s political education

Hcmc youth union (thành đoàn tp.hcm)

Youth Advocate Intern

May 2020Aug 2020 · 3 mos

  • Established a media club of 30 college students to innovate media campaigns
  • Supported the first Artificial Intelligence contest by HCMC’s People Committee with 30 top tech start-ups in Vietnam (ELSA, VNG, etc) working to promote smart-city solutions

Sealnet

Research Lead

Aug 2019Sep 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Led team of 7 Southeast Asians to research a 4-week Organic Farming online learning course
  • Monitored assignment of 50 youth participants, 50% international and 50% Vietnamese
  • Co-designed with 3 project Co-founders a project proposal to promote organic farming

Oxford omnia international

Project Officer

Aug 2019Feb 2020 · 6 mos · Kinh Môn, Hai Duong, Vietnam

  • Focused on development for local rural youth through mentoring of opportunities & adapting to the constraint of the rural area environment
  • Led beginners to IELTS English classes for over 40 students, 2 scored 6.0 & 7.5 in IELTS
  • Advised high school in setting up an English club
  • Rehearsed with secondary school teachers for 15 extracurricular events
  • Set up mechanism to guide 5 senior students in college application & career orientation
  • Liaised with 5 Euro volunteers, local teachers for discussion on social issues & cultural exchange

Vietabroader organization

4 roles

Partnership Intern

Jun 2019Aug 2019 · 2 mos · Ho Chi Minh City

  • o Kept track of benefits of University sponsors and greets them on site
  • o Communicated between 35 school representatives and organizing team
  • o Communicated with 100 participants for platinum sponsor’s Info Sessions

Director - VietAbroader Club HCM

Sep 2018Apr 2019 · 7 mos

  • o Led 8 leaders and 19 members in 2018-2019 term of the junior chapter of VietAbroader to empower youths via soft-skills and networks enhancement
  • o Supervised a fair with 35 NPOs, 400 attendees connecting students with extracurricular opportunities & a workshop 70 attendees on Persuasion skill
  • o Collaborated with SEALNet for a 2-day fundraising event on personal hobbies and cultural exploration of Saigon, 500$ raised
  • o Managed sponsored budget for events of about 3000$
  • o Established timeline, recruitment, and trainings

Program Manager - iLead Challenge 2018

May 2018Aug 2018 · 3 mos

  • IL18 is a Leadership program by VietAbroader to foster community spirit in students
  • o Led team of 5 program members and 4 mentors to conduct training sessions for HCMC’s student projects
  • o Worked with 3 guest speakers in training and 2 in the closing ceremony
  • o Supervised 1 student project that focuses on spreading the cartoon culture to highschoolers (DomDom Studio)

Assistant (PR and Event) - VietAbroader Club HCM

Sep 2017Jun 2018 · 9 mos

Education

The University of Hong Kong

Dual Degree with SciPo

Sep 2020May 2024

Sciences Po

Dual Degree with HKU

Sep 2020May 2024

University of Nevada, Reno

YSEALI fellowship with NNIC and US Department of States — Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Sep 2025Nov 2025

Le Hong Phong High School For The Gifted, HCMC, Vietnam

Sep 2016May 2019

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