Senior Data Engineer — data platforms, lineage, reliability · Helsinki 🇫🇮
>>> import longchau as lc
>>> lc.role
'Senior Data Engineer — platforms, lineage, reliability'
>>> lc.location
'Helsinki 🇫🇮'
>>> lc.fun # NaN NaN NaN ... Batman!
['open data', 'maps', 'bilingual NLP']I build and operate analytics data platforms for a living. Off the clock I don't really stop:
- Open-data devotee — I scrape, clean, and map Finnish & Vietnamese open data for fun, which I'm told is not a normal way to relax.
- Bilingual bridge — Vietnamese ↔ Finnish ↔ English. I once POS-tagged Truyện Kiều (Vietnam's national epic) because a Tuesday evening demanded it.
- I learn by building in public — and I follow Helsinki urban planning closely enough to grep the planning PDFs for underpasses. Cheerfully.
Nine of these are live. Three worth your time first:
Map Poster · |
Cities, Breathing in Light · |
Fossils in the Map · |
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Other things I've built — HPC tooling, a bureaucracy PWA, and open-data plumbing
| Project | What it is | Stack |
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| Pencil Platform | Campaign orchestration and analysis for Pencil Code simulations — a problem-agnostic core plus a consumer-plugin model, driving large MHD/hydro sweeps on SLURM HPC. | Python · SLURM · HPC |
| LivingInFinland | A gamified PWA that walks newcomers through Finnish bureaucracy (Migri / DVV / Kela / Vero) with cultural context. | PWA · JS |
| VN administrative boundaries | Clean reference lists/dicts for Vietnam's administrative reshuffles — the kind of tidy open-data plumbing I do for fun. | Python · open data |
Currently: building data platform tooling · tinkering with open-data + urban-data side projects.











