Kien Ngo
Software developer. I enjoy building software products that serve daily life purposes.
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// Work
thirdweb
Software Developer
- Mainly contributed to the thirdweb JS SDK, thirdweb Dashboard (thirdweb.com) and other cross-functional areas.
- Wrote docs, built templates, supported customers, etc. I wore many hats and learnt many things from the wonderful people working there.
cavies labs
Software Developer
- Worked on the seitrace.com's backend - the main blockchain explorer for Sei network.
mome nft
Founding software engineer
- A startup from Sydney that aims to tokenize moments in life in the form of NFT.
- Implemented a chain-agnostic NFT payment system with stablecoin. It worked in some ways :(
- Owned every single line of code from front to back.
aareas interactive inc.
frontend developer
- A proptech company in Toronto building a solution for an interactive condo shopping experience.
- Worked on a 3D interactive app (built with Playcanvas & Unreal engine) to let clients decorate their dream house from their web browsers.
- Made so many mistakes so I don't talk about this.

// Projects
clipfs (CLI for IPFS)
IPFS Kubo on steroid
Better-auth's crypto wallet extension (WIP)
A plugin for the Better-auth framework that pre-generate a crypto wallet for users upon signing up.
Solana trading activities tracker for Telegram
A super lightweight server built with Bun to track trading activities on Solana across multiple DEXes. Trade data is stored & analyzed to provide a clear picture for current trending coins & KOLs activities.
thirdweb.tools
A collection of articles, dApps and other services that I accumulated during my time at thirdweb.
Tag Everything (WIP)
A on-going project that aims to be your personal encrypted notebook where you can organize thoughts, notes, and secrets with tags.
I originally developed this app to be the tagging system for managing my IPFS pins.
xinlink
Yet another URL shortening service with link tracking & analytics features. Fully serverless with Cloudflare D1.

Articles
- (thirdweb) Bulk updating NFT metadata- Handy bash scripts for pinning CIDs to your IPFS Node- How to migrate from v4 read-only React hooks to v5- How to transfer an NFTs with thirdweb SDK