HP Modern Studio

Henry Parker AI Software Engineer | Backend & Full-Stack Engineer

Building practical AI systems, real-time messaging, and reproducible developer tooling.

Focused on clear engineering architecture, scalable backend systems, multi-provider authentication, and production deployments.

Henry ParkerFounder, HP Modern StudioHo Chi Minh City, Vietnam

One founder. Hands-on product thinking. Focused improvements built around what customers are already trying to do.

What I build

Useful technology, shaped around a real decision or task.

Web modernization

Modernize older or unclear websites without unnecessarily rebuilding everything.

Product development

Design and build practical web products across modern interfaces, backends and APIs.

AI & automation

Build AI agents, workflow automation, integrations and practical AI-enabled tools.

Customer journeys

Find friction in an existing digital experience and make important actions easier to complete.

Featured work

Production systems, open developer tooling and AI platforms.

PastelChat real-time messaging platform interface showing modern channels and live communication

Featured Production System

PastelChat

Production-ready real-time messaging platform supporting multi-tenant messaging across web and desktop clients.

Technology
React.js, Node.js, MongoDB, Socket.io, Electron, OAuth 2.0, JWT
What was built
Full-stack real-time communication platform supporting 50+ active users and 1,000+ daily messages without critical production incidents. Implemented Google & Microsoft OAuth 2.0 with JWT sessions, MongoDB index optimization reducing cold starts from ~30s to <2s, and automated CI/CD deployments with 99.5% availability.
ReproSpec evidence capture and sandboxed replay workflow

Open Source Tooling

RepoSpec

Portable evidence capture and sandboxed replay CLI toolkit for reproducible bug diagnostics.

Tech: Node.js, JavaScript, TypeScript, CLI, Docker, SHA-256, npm

Built an open specification and Node.js CLI to capture tamper-evident bug diagnostics. Features configurable regex redaction, cryptographic SHA-256 verification, and isolated Docker execution copy replay.

AI Platform Architecture

HP OS

Unified local-first AI operating environment integrating backend microservices, an AI Agent runtime, and workflow automation.

Tech: Python, Node.js, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, Docker

Architected asynchronous task orchestration, persistent PostgreSQL/MongoDB/Redis state layers, and modular local generative AI studio applications communicating over internal APIs.

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Meet the founder

Henry Parker

Nguyen Manh Tuan Hung

Founder — HP Modern Studio

AI Automation & Full-Stack Developer based in Ho Chi Minh City. Henry builds practical software across modern web products, APIs, automation systems and AI agents.

EducationDiploma of Information TechnologyUTS College

Technical capabilities

Product engineering

React · TypeScript · Node.js · Express · REST APIs · Authentication · Real-time systems

AI & automation

AI agents · Workflow automation · Browser automation · Scheduled workflows · LLM-assisted systems

Infrastructure

Docker · Backend architecture · Monitoring · API integrations · Databases

How I work

  1. UnderstandReview the existing product, workflow and customer journey.
  2. IdentifyFind the highest-impact friction before proposing a rebuild.
  3. PrototypeBuild a focused concept or working improvement.
  4. BuildTurn approved ideas into maintainable, production-oriented software.

Your website may not need a rebuild.

Sometimes the highest-impact improvement is a clearer booking flow, a better mobile experience or a simpler path to the action customers are already trying to take.

HP Modern Studio identifies those opportunities before proposing a large rebuild.

Discuss an improvement

Have a product or website worth improving?

Tell me what customers are trying to do—and where the current experience gets in their way.

henry@hpmodernstudio.com

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