Tuan Pham — Director of Software Engineering

00 // About this place

Welcome to my corner of the web, a place for the things I build, the ideas I’m exploring, the lessons I’ve learned, the curiosities I keep chasing, and the art of making complex things work.

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01 / Writing

Log Records

Architecture notes, leadership thinking, and things I learned the hard way.

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02 / Lab

Lab Records

Things I build, break, and benchmark outside of work. Ongoing experimentation, not a polished portfolio.

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LAB-012TESTING

Qwen3.8 27B — RTX 5080 Coding Benchmark

A local coding benchmark for ISTA-DASLab/Qwen3.8-27B-GSQ-RCO-GGUF at IQ3_S-MTP on an NVIDIA RTX 5080 with 16 GB of VRAM. Three single-file web builds test responsive styling, animated canvas generation, and interactive UI logic while recording the exact inference configuration and decode performance.

Stack
Qwen3.8 27B, llama.cpp, RTX 5080
Date
2026-10-06
Source
Local inference benchmark
Launch tool
LAB-001ACTIVE

LLM Inference Capacity Planner

An interactive capacity-planning tool for local LLM inference. It estimates model weight storage, KV cache growth, runtime VRAM, minimum host memory, and GPU count from model size, quantization, context length, cache precision, batch size, and the target memory architecture. The breakdown makes the assumptions visible so a hardware plan can be adjusted before downloading a model or buying a GPU.

Stack
Next.js, TypeScript, LLM memory modeling
Date
2026-10-04
Source
Interactive lab tool
Launch tool
LAB-002ACTIVE

Cocktail Bar Machine

An automated cocktail-mixing machine built with nine 12V pumps, supporting up to ten liquors and mixers through a custom PCB, 2020 aluminum extrusion frame, and 3D-printed enclosure. A companion web app can discover and connect to the machine over Wi-Fi, manage ingredients, and prepare hundreds of cocktails with flexible recipe modifications and customization. The project brings together accurate dispensing, pump control, plumbing, wireless connectivity, and a software-driven recipe system in one programmable bar platform.

Stack
2020 extrusion, Wi-Fi, Web app
Date
2026-02-10
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03 / Uses

Systems I build with

Three purpose-built systems, backed by a compact lab and local AI stack.

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SYS-01Primary workstation

Primary workstation

CPU
Intel Core i9-14900K
Memory
64 GB RAM - 6400MT/s
SYS-02Gaming system

Gaming Rig

CPU
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
Memory
96 GB DDR5 RAM - 6400MT/s
SYS-03AI coding system

AI Agentic Engineering Node

System
Mac Studio
Chip
Apple M5 Ultra
Homelab12 nodes // 6 systems
AI runtimellama.cpp / Open WebUI / vLLM