✦About the founder
Bùi Xuân Khôi
Founder of Kioh · Software Engineer
Five years of writing software for other people's products taught me what good work actually costs. Kioh is where I spend it on the reason I started — building things that leave a life a little better than they found it.
- Role
- Founder, Kioh
- Day job
- Software Engineer, Axon (US)
- Experience
- 5 years building software
- Based in
- Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
The day job
By day I'm a software engineer at Axon — the American public-safety technology company behind body cameras, TASER devices and the digital evidence platform that police departments, courts and prosecutors run on. Its mission fits in two words, Protect Life, and it is measured in outcomes rather than features.
Five years in that kind of codebase teaches a very specific discipline: software that carries evidence is never allowed to be almost right. You learn to ask what happens on the worst day rather than on demo day, to write the boring safeguard before the clever feature, and to treat someone else's trust as the actual product. I brought that habit home with me.
Why Kioh exists
Kioh started in Vietnam, at a desk at home, from a plain observation: most software today is built to take something from you — your attention, your evening, your data. Very little of it is built to hand something back.
So Kioh does two things. We build software end to end for clients who have something worth building, and we build our own apps — MIEN and Mily — to prove we can live by the standard we sell. The products are the argument; the client work is the craft.
That is the whole mission: better software, and a slightly better life at the end of it.
✦How we work
Say the true thing
You get the real estimate, the real timeline, and the part we are not sure about yet — before you pay for any of it. If something we planned turns out to be the wrong call, you hear it from us first.
Build it wholeheartedly
A small company cannot hide behind process. Every screen we ship has somebody's name on it, and it is usually mine — so it gets finished, not merely delivered.
Listen before we build
A brief is rarely the whole story. We ask about the customer behind it, the number you are judged on, the thing you would never write into a spec — then we build what you actually meant.
✦We can meet
Pick a time where you are. I'll see it in mine.
Choose any day and time in your own timezone — the form converts it to Vietnam time for me, so nobody has to do the arithmetic. No account, no back-and-forth.
✦Say hello
Have something worth building?
Tell me about it. I read every message myself.
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