The Phuong CollectionServer-Side Works

Luu BuuPhuong

Node.js Developer

A retrospective of quiet, durable machinery: APIs, event streams and real-time services, built in JavaScript and TypeScript and hung for daily use. Please walk slowly — most of the work happens where nobody looks.

On view
2016 — present
Galleries
Five rooms
Location
Warsaw, Poland
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Featured Portrait
Luu Buu Phuong
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Gallery One · Wall Text

The Artist & the Practice

Luu Buu Phuong works in the medium of the backend — composing services that answer quickly, fail gracefully and keep running long after the launch party ends.

Over nearly a decade, Phuong has built Node.js systems for fintech, logistics and media companies: payment APIs handling millions of requests a day, real-time dashboards streaming over WebSockets, and event-driven pipelines that keep distributed teams in sync.

The practice favours clarity over cleverness. Typed contracts with TypeScript, honest observability, small composable services and test suites that read like documentation are recurring motifs. Performance work — profiling the event loop, taming memory leaks, shaving p99 latency — is treated as craft rather than firefighting.

Phuong is equally at home pairing with frontend engineers on a GraphQL schema, mentoring juniors through their first production incident, or quietly migrating a monolith one module at a time without anyone noticing the floor move beneath them.

“Good backend work is like good gallery lighting: when it's done right, nobody notices it — they only notice everything else looks better.” — From the artist's statement
9+Years in Node.js
40+Services in production
12MDaily API requests served
99.98%Typical uptime held
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Gallery Two · Media & Technique

Materials & Methods

Case 01 · Primary medium

Runtime & Language

  • Node.js (LTS, streams, workers)
  • TypeScript
  • Modern JavaScript (ES2024)
  • Go (supporting services)
Case 02 · Frameworks

Structure & Form

  • NestJS
  • Express / Fastify
  • GraphQL (Apollo)
  • Socket.IO / WebSockets
Case 03 · Pigments

Data & Messaging

  • PostgreSQL · Prisma
  • MongoDB
  • Redis · BullMQ
  • Kafka · RabbitMQ
Case 04 · Conservation

Delivery & Care

  • Docker · Kubernetes
  • AWS (Lambda, ECS, SQS)
  • Jest · Vitest · Supertest
  • OpenTelemetry · Grafana
Key to the cases: Signature medium Working knowledge
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Gallery Three · Selected Works

The Permanent Collection

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Gallery Four · Exhibition History

Provenance & Previous Residencies

  1. 2023 — Present

    Senior Node.js Developer

    Fintech scale-up · Warsaw

    Leads the payments platform team of six engineers; owns core transaction APIs and the event backbone.

    • Designed the idempotent charging service and Kafka outbox now processing 12M requests per day.
    • Introduced OpenTelemetry tracing across 30 services, halving mean time to resolution.
    • Mentors four developers; runs the internal Node.js performance guild.
  2. 2020 — 2023

    Node.js Developer

    Logistics technology company

    Built the real-time backbone for fleet tracking and dispatch.

    • Shipped a WebSocket gateway serving 6,000 concurrent vehicles and 1,200 dispatcher sessions.
    • Migrated a PHP monolith to NestJS microservices with zero customer-visible downtime.
  3. 2018 — 2020

    Backend Developer (JavaScript)

    Digital media agency

    • Delivered Express and GraphQL APIs for publishers and e-commerce clients.
    • Built a caching layer with Redis that cut origin load by 70% during traffic peaks.
  4. 2016 — 2018

    Junior Full-Stack Developer

    Software house

    • First Node.js services in production; REST APIs, integrations and automated test suites.
Room V · Visitor Information

Commissions & Enquiries

The artist is currently accepting new commissions — backend architecture, API design, performance reviews and long-term Node.js engagements. Please present your ticket at the desk.

AvailabilityOpen to new roles
Working hoursMon – Fri · CET
ArrangementsRemote · Hybrid · On-site
LanguagesEnglish · Vietnamese
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Luu Buu Phuong

Node.js Developer
First name
Luu Buu
Surname
Phuong
Address
Hoza 2
00528 Warsaw
Poland
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