Han Ngo

Notes on building firms, running operations, and designing systems.

I build backend and AI systems: payments, trading, and LLM agents. Here I write the long version of what I learn: engineering, operations, business, and how programs and software fail or hold.

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Third Culture Kids and Five Centuries of Mixed Heritage

An evidence review of children who differ from the locals in how they look, speak, and think, joined to a coded library of 28 historical mixed groups, asking whether they are becoming a people.

Designing Out SNAP Fraud

A taxonomy of SNAP trafficking, theft, and error, and a layered program and software architecture that designs fraud out.

From the archive · 2014 to 2020

Software Engineering Philosophy
Cofounder Agreement
How We Split Equity Between Co-founders

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