I already have a website.I bought this one anyway.

This is my LinkedIn without the LinkedIn. Same jobs, one markdown file, notes in red pen.

curl -L phong.md
Pencil drawing. On the left, an office tower. In the middle, a desk with a laptop that shows phong.md. On the right, a home server rack and a pile of boxes labelled with domain endings. The .md box is red. # phong.md.com.ca.md.io?
The short version

The companies got smaller. The job got bigger.

Big companies first. Then two startups, where I ran the team. Now Brickroad by day and LAB46 by night.

My jobCompanythe job got biggerthan the company
  1. IBM, Qualcomm, AMDEngineer
  2. AdeptmindRan engineering
  3. CommitDirector of Engineering
  4. BrickroadEngineering
  5. LAB46Founder
100k+ → 0coworkers, from IBM to LAB46

Not to scale. The dates are on LinkedIn.

The badge years

Started at companies with lanyards.

I wrote code at IBM, Qualcomm, and AMD. Big codebases, long builds, and a badge for every door.

  • IBMPhong T.
  • QualcommPhong T.
  • AMDPhong T.
0doors these still open

kept them anyway

The startup years

Then I ran the team instead.

At Adeptmind I ran engineering: hiring, reviews, the release process, and a talk series where engineers taught engineers.

At Commit I took over the internal software team and led the launch of the Commit Platform.

Adeptmind

Ran engineering

  • Hiring
  • Code reviews
  • Release process
  • Talk series

Commit

Director of Engineering

  • Took over the team
  • Launched Commit Platform

“He took over the leadership of our internal software development team and led the successful launch of the Commit Platform.”

A colleague at Commit, on LinkedIn
151617181920Launch monthship

the date is on LinkedIn

The day job

Shipped an agent you can call.

At Brickroad I led the work that opened the information frontier agent to every user as an API. The agent does the research. Your code asks the questions.

Does Phong need another domain?

No.

Read 23 sources

The answers here are jokes. The agent is real.

The night job

Runs a company with no employees.

LAB46 is where my side projects live: Task Reminder for Slack teams, Clipshine, a URL redirector, and a few retired experiments. The servers are on the org chart.

All-hands meeting. Everyone came.

A bad habit

I own more domains than websites.

phongt.com was enough. Then phong.md was available.

Domains I own vs. domains with a website

  • Owned
  • Has a website
0510152025201420182022202623 owned4 with a sitebought phong.md
Numbers are made up. The trend is not.
See the numbers as a table
YearOwnedHas a website
201411
201631
201862
202092
2022133
2024183
2026234
phong.mdOpen the file
---
name: Phong Thieu
location: localhost
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pthieu/
---

# I already have a website. I bought this one anyway.

This is my LinkedIn without the LinkedIn. Same jobs, one markdown file, notes in red pen.

Engineering at Brickroad. Founder of LAB46. Before that: Commit, Adeptmind, IBM, Qualcomm, AMD.

## The companies got smaller. The job got bigger.

Big companies first. Then two startups, where I ran the team. Now Brickroad by day and LAB46 by night.

## Started at companies with lanyards.

- **IBM**, Engineer
- **Qualcomm**, Engineer
- **AMD**, Engineer

I wrote code at IBM, Qualcomm, and AMD. Big codebases, long builds, and a badge for every door.

## Then I ran the team instead.

- **Adeptmind**, Ran engineering
- **Commit**, Director of Engineering

At Adeptmind I ran engineering: hiring, reviews, the release process, and a talk series where engineers taught engineers.

At Commit I took over the internal software team and led the launch of the Commit Platform.

> He took over the leadership of our internal software development team and led the successful launch of the Commit Platform.
>
> — A colleague at Commit, on LinkedIn

## Shipped an agent you can call.

- **Brickroad**, Engineering

At Brickroad I led the work that opened the information frontier agent to every user as an API. The agent does the research. Your code asks the questions.

## Runs a company with no employees.

- **LAB46**, Founder

LAB46 is where my side projects live: Task Reminder for Slack teams, Clipshine, a URL redirector, and a few retired experiments. The servers are on the org chart.

## I own more domains than websites.

phongt.com was enough. Then phong.md was available.
23 owned. 4 with a website. The numbers are made up. The trend is not.

## It all fits in one markdown file.

University of Waterloo, Engineering. Y Combinator Startup School, 2019.

My Medium bio says “Engineer from the University of Waterloo, trying to find freedom.” Still true. Still looking.

- [linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pthieu/)
- [github](https://github.com/pthieu)
- [x](https://x.com/PhongGT)
- [medium](https://medium.com/@pthieu)
- [lab46](https://labfortysix.com)