Developer Culture in Vietnam

A story of exponential growth in the developer community

My earliest memories of noodle soup were those horrible canned ones my mother would serve when she was too tired to cook. It scarred me for years until I had real noodle soup.

There are many places in the world to get a great bowl of noodle soup. I love Thai boat noodles, fish ball noodle soup of Hong Kong is sublime, and Japanese ramen is legendary. I can’t forget to mention Malaysian laksa, Sichuan dan dan noodles, or a good American chicken noodle soup. My favorite though will always be Vietnamese Pho.

That is not what took me to Ho Chi Minh City, the city formerly known as Saigon, a few weeks ago though. I was speaking on building collaborative innovation communities at the VNITO 2019 conference (see my Instagram pics here). Not only did I speak at the event, I also had an opportunity to explore the local developer culture and IT community.

Like my previous posts on Hong Kong and Singapore, I want to share what I learned about dev culture in Vietnam. One caveat though, I only visited Ho Chi Minh City and have not been to Hanoi or Danang which are also growing centers of tech & developer activity.

What did I discover? The phrases that comes to mind are enthusiastic talent, exponential growth, and burgeoning…