Chi Cong
Engineering Manager & founding team at PhoenixDX · PhD candidate at RMIT
I run an AI-first engineering team at PhoenixDX and research how AI agents coordinate, and conflict, with each other and with people. Before that: founder, CTO, solution architect, ten years across five countries.
Now
- work
- Engineering Manager & founding team at PhoenixDX Vietnam. Building an org of senior AI experts and the multi-agent systems they ship. →
- research
- PhD at RMIT: collaborative AI. How agents orchestrate, resolve conflict, and earn human trust. →
- writing
- One short lesson a day, in series. Agentic software engineering, systems, leadership. →
Writing
all posts →13 series, 355 lessons so far. Each one is a few minutes of reading.
- Using AI Day to Day18 lessons
- Career Growth for Engineers in 30 Days30 lessons
- Product Mindset for Engineers in 30 Days30 lessons
- Solution Architecture in 30 Days30 lessons
- Software Engineering in the AI Era30 lessons
- Multi-Agent Systems in 30 Days30 lessons
- LLM Engineering in 30 Days30 lessons
- AI Fundamentals in 30 Days30 lessons
- Engineering Leadership in 30 Days30 lessons
- Distributed Systems in 30 Days30 lessons
- Data & Retrieval Engineering in 30 Days30 lessons
- One Concept a Day — The AI-Era Engineer's Glossary30 lessons
- Spec-Driven Development7 lessons
Latest
- Oct 29The four-box promptday 18 · Using AI Day to Day
- Oct 29
- Oct 28Breaking out of prompt loopsday 17 · Using AI Day to Day
- Oct 28
- Oct 27Lost in the middleday 16 · Using AI Day to Day
- Oct 27
Research
PhD at RMIT University on collaborative AI: how agents coordinate and resolve conflict with each other, and what makes people trust them. Mixed methods, with education technology as the main setting.
research questions and method →Work
full history →- 2026–Engineering Manager & founding teamPhoenixDX
- 2025–26Engineering ManagerOPSWAT
- 2021–25Founder, CEO & CTOEgitech
- 2024–25Co-founder & CTOAgfovi
- 2023–24Squad lead / Solution ArchitectTasConnect