I’m Khiem Pham, an AI evaluation and benchmark engineering professional based in Ho Chi Minh City. I build and validate frontier-agent benchmark tasks—designing clear reward logic, anti-cheat controls, Dockerized evaluation environments, reference solutions, and sealed verification to ensure scoring behaves correctly and fairly. Alongside evaluation work, I create finance and math problem sets grounded in real disclosures and rigorous proof standards, and I support red teaming and annotation/QA processes through structured rubrics and calibration. I enjoy turning complex requirements into reproducible, testable systems using Python, Docker, Rust, and LLM tooling like Codex and Claude Code.…

I’m Khiem Pham, an AI evaluation and benchmark engineering professional based in Ho Chi Minh City. I build and validate frontier-agent benchmark tasks—designing clear reward logic, anti-cheat controls, Dockerized evaluation environments, reference solutions, and sealed verification to ensure scoring behaves correctly and fairly. Alongside evaluation work, I create finance and math problem sets grounded in real disclosures and rigorous proof standards, and I support red teaming and annotation/QA processes through structured rubrics and calibration. I enjoy turning complex requirements into reproducible, testable systems using Python, Docker, Rust, and LLM tooling like Codex and Claude Code.…

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I’m Khiem Pham, an AI evaluation and benchmark engineering professional based in Ho Chi Minh City. I build and validate frontier-agent benchmark tasks—designing clear reward logic, anti-cheat controls, Dockerized evaluation environments, reference solutions, and sealed verification to ensure scoring behaves correctly and fairly.

Alongside evaluation work, I create finance and math problem sets grounded in real disclosures and rigorous proof standards, and I support red teaming and annotation/QA processes through structured rubrics and calibration. I enjoy turning complex requirements into reproducible, testable systems using Python, Docker, Rust, and LLM tooling like Codex and Claude Code.

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Vietnamese
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English
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Work Experience

Senior Domain Expert, AI Research Program at AfterQuery
July 1, 2026 - Present
Designed realistic, difficult benchmark tasks for frontier agents across Science, Software, Machine Learning, and Operations. Built task bundles with instructions, metadata, Docker environments, Python reference solutions, and dedicated verifier containers. Implemented oracle/no-op validation, reviewed answer leakage and test coverage, and assessed anti-cheat risks. Documented difficulty rationale, assumptions, reference approach, and verification logic, iterating for clarity and correctness. Used Codex and Claude Code for repository inspection, implementation, debugging, and testing.
Finance Intern at Eurofins
March 23, 2026 - Present
Assisted in financial reconciliation and monitored corporate revenue and expenses; calculated incentives and commissions for internal staff and external collaborators. Conducted financial analysis and developed forecasting models for revenue and expenses; tracked and recorded Capital Expenditure (Capex) for the reporting period.
Finance Intern at Eurofins Vietnam
March 1, 2026 - Present
Used QuickBooks Online for transaction review, categorization, account reconciliation, invoice/payment tracking, discrepancy investigation, and financial reporting support. Reconciled revenue and source records across Vietnam and Indonesia, investigating differences in dates, currencies, customer classifications, and reporting periods. Supported management reporting, CAPEX analysis, valuation models, P&L and SG&A review, budgeting, forecasting, and budget-versus-actual analysis.
Finance Intern at Eurofins
March 1, 2026 - Present
Assisted in financial reconciliation and monitored corporate revenue and expenses; calculated incentives and commissions for internal staff and external collaborators. Conducted financial analysis and developed forecasting models for revenue and expenses; tracked and recorded Capital Expenditure (Capex) for the reporting period.
General Finance Analyst at Telus Digital
February 1, 2026 - Present
Monitored, extracted, and analyzed multi-LOB production and billable-hours data to ensure accurate reporting and provide inputs for invoicing and revenue reconciliation. Partnered with Resource & Planning, Operations/WFM, Account Managers, and clients to validate billability rules, run weekly actual-vs-target calibrations, investigate material variances, and secure approvals for final invoices.
Quality Analyst / Multilingual Project Contributor at RWS Group
December 1, 2025 - March 31, 2026
Worked on multilingual data review including translation and localization, transcription, and structured annotation. Checked meaning accuracy, terminology, naturalness, formatting, and consistency; supported reviewer feedback and quality control across multilingual and domain-oriented tasks using annotation tools and structured formats.
Finance Research Expert / Math and Finance Expert at AfterQuery
November 1, 2025 - June 30, 2026
Authored finance reasoning tasks grounded in public company materials (10-Ks, 10-Qs, statements, and footnotes). Focused on common analytical pitfalls including TTM vs. annual figures, segment vs. consolidated data, basic vs. diluted shares, non-recurring items, and period alignment. Created source-traceable expected reasoning, iterated numerical setups and assumptions, and refined wording to distinguish robust analysis from shallow answers.
LLM Agentic Associate Researcher at Turing
October 1, 2025 - March 31, 2026
Designed prompts (single-turn, multi-turn, and tool-oriented) to test reasoning quality, instruction following, hallucination risk, state tracking, and edge cases. Reviewed function selection, JSON/API arguments, tool sequencing, error handling, and final responses. Performed preference ranking with evidence-based justifications and converted recurring disagreements into clearer rubrics, examples, and calibration guidance. Contributed to multilingual and finance evaluation work.
MOVE Fellow Expert, Project Phoenix at Handshake AI
October 1, 2025 - April 30, 2026
Created original graduate-level mathematical proof tasks with explicit assumptions, intermediate reasoning, and complete case solutions. Reviewed model proofs for invalid implications, hidden gaps, circular reasoning, and unsupported steps, differentiating correct final claims from valid proofs.
LLM Agentic at Turing
October 1, 2025 - February 1, 2026
Designed and iterated agentic prompts, multi-step evaluation, tool-call prompts, test cases; executed model runs covering reasoning depth, and edge-case behavior. Built a failure-mode taxonomy from sampled outputs and delivered weekly calibration briefs; drove prompt rubric refinements adopted in the evaluation pipeline.
LLM Research/Calibrator at Turing Enterprise
October 1, 2025 - Present
Designed and iterated agentic prompts, multi-step evaluation prompts, and test cases; executed several thousands of model runs covering reasoning depth and edge-case behavior. Built a failure-mode taxonomy from 300+ sampled outputs and delivered weekly calibration briefs; drove 20+ prompt/rubric refinements adopted in the evaluation pipeline.
Project Lead Quality / Finance Research Reviewer at TELUS Digital
August 1, 2025 - October 31, 2025
Coordinated distributed annotation and QA workflows, including sampling audits, spot checks, escalation paths, and reviewer consistency. Coached contributors on complex guidelines, resolved interpretation differences, and turned recurring errors into reusable calibration materials. Reviewed quality and productivity signals and documented actionable feedback.
GenAI Associate – Red Teaming at Innodata
July 1, 2025 - September 30, 2025
Executed 80+ adversarial test sessions and several hundred prompts across OWASP LLM risk areas, documented +30 issues with severity triage and reproducible steps. Partnered with policy/QA/engineering to propose and validate mitigations; achieved 96% regression pass rate. Curated several hundred red-team examples and built a failure-mode taxonomy; delivered weekly risk summaries to strengthen safety evaluation coverage.
Red Teaming / Quality Analyst at Innodata, Inc.
July 1, 2025 - September 1, 2025
Executed 80+ adversarial test sessions and several hundred prompts across OWASP LLM risk areas, documented 30+ issues with severity triage and reproducible steps. Partnered with policy/QA/engineering to propose and validate mitigations; achieved 96% regression pass rate. Curated several hundred red-team examples and built a failure-mode taxonomy; delivered weekly risk summaries to strengthen safety evaluation coverage.
GenAI Associate, Red Teaming at Innodata
June 1, 2025 - September 30, 2025
Developed adversarial prompt suites addressing hallucination, bias, toxicity, prompt injection, instruction failures, safety, and reliability. Recorded reproducible failure examples with supporting evidence and severity notes, and provided mitigation-oriented feedback. Structured findings as prompt-response examples and edge-case data.
V-Star Intern at vivo Vietnam
September 1, 2024 - December 31, 2024
Analyzed sales and sell-through across more than ten retail chains, comparing channel, SKU, and period differences and preparing commercial recommendations for regional stakeholders.
Expert AI Data Trainer / Math and STEM Quality Analyst at Invisible Technologies
January 1, 2024 - December 31, 2025
Developed and reviewed graduate-level mathematics and STEM prompts, reference approaches, and technical validation notes. Evaluated assumptions, proof structure, numerical consistency, and guideline compliance, and performed annotation-quality reviews. Reviewed approximately 400 Japanese-language transcription tasks (about 150 hours) for fidelity to spontaneous speech, omissions, mistranscriptions, and project conventions.
Founder / Corporate Finance Analyst at Finstock, Inc.
September 1, 2023 - Present
Founded a finance and investment-research practice combining fundamental, technical, and quantitative analysis with AI-enabled research and decision-support workflows. Built financial and investment models for P&L, cash flow, valuation, scenario sensitivity, budgeting, and portfolio context. Conducted company/industry/macro research across Vietnamese and U.S. equities, warrants, FX, and cryptocurrency, and developed TradingView indicators and evidence-based investment hypotheses.
Corporate Finance Analyst (Founding Team) at Finstock, Inc.
September 1, 2023 - Present
Owned end-to-end corporate finance: budgeting, runway/cash planning, KPI reporting, and finance partnering across operations and growth. Implemented spend governance, cash controls, and vendor/terms optimization, reducing burn rate by 10-20% while maintaining execution pace. Built integrated financial models (P&L/BS/CF), scenario analyses, and investor-ready materials to support strategic decisions and capital planning.
Corporate Finance Analyst at Finstock, Inc.
September 1, 2023 - Present
Owned end-to-end corporate finance: budgeting, runway/cash planning, KPI reporting, and finance partnering across operations and growth. Implemented spend governance, cash controls, and vendor/terms optimization, reducing burn rate by 10-20% while maintaining execution pace. Built integrated financial models (P&L/BS/CF), scenario analyses, and investor-ready materials to support strategic decisions and capital planning.
Subject Matter Expert, Translator, Math & Finance Expert (Graduate Level) at Freelance – AfterQuery, Handshake, RWS, TELUS Digital, Invisible Technologies, Outlier
June 1, 2023 - June 1, 2025
Delivered advanced mathematics and finance expertise for AI training/evaluation projects, producing 1,000+ high-difficulty problems, step-by-step solutions, and postgraduate standards. Reviewed and calibrated model/annotator outputs using structured rubrics; completed 2,000+ QA checks with 98%+ acceptance, consistently improving correctness and consistency across datasets.
Subject Matter Expert, Translator, Math & Finance Expert (Freelance) at AfterQuery; Handshake; RWS; TELUS Digital; Invisible Technologies; Outlier
June 1, 2023 - June 1, 2025
Delivered advanced mathematics and finance expertise for AI training/evaluation projects, producing 1,000+ high-difficulty problems, step-by-step solutions, and postgraduate standards. Reviewed and calibrated model/annotator outputs using structured rubrics; completed 2,000+ QA checks with 98%+ acceptance, consistently improving correctness, and consistency across datasets.
Subject Matter Expert, Translator, Math & Finance Expert at Freelance – Various clients (AfterQuery | Handshake | RWS | TELUS Digital | Invisible Technologies | Outlier)
June 1, 2023 - June 1, 2025
Delivered advanced mathematics and finance expertise for AI training/evaluation projects, producing 1,000+ high-difficulty problems, step-by-step solutions, and postgraduate-standard materials. Reviewed and calibrated model/annotator outputs using structured rubrics; completed 2,000+ QA checks with 98%+ acceptance, consistently improving correctness and consistency across datasets.
Sale Specialist/ Manager at FAHASA
March 1, 2022 - March 1, 2023
Optimized store inventory and visual merchandising strategies, ensuring 100% product availability during high-traffic periods.
Sales Specialist/ Manager at FAHASA
March 1, 2022 - March 1, 2023
Optimized store inventory and visual merchandising strategies, ensuring 100% product availability during high-traffic periods.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance at Nguyen Tat Thanh University (NTTU)
September 1, 2021 - June 1, 2026
MSc in Computational Finance (In Progress) at Nguyen Tat Thanh University
January 1, 2025 - January 1, 2027
Bachelor of Finance and Banking at Nguyen Tat Thanh University
January 1, 2021 - January 1, 2025

Qualifications

Python, REST API, SQL (Advanced)
May 1, 2025 - March 5, 2026
Advanced Private Wealth Management
January 1, 2026 - April 28, 2026
Data Analysis & Scientific Computing with Python
June 1, 2025 - April 28, 2026
Python , RestAPI , SQL (Advanced)
May 1, 2025 - April 28, 2026
Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst (FMVA®)
February 1, 2026 - April 28, 2026
Data Analysis & Scientific Computing with Python
June 1, 2025 - April 28, 2026
Python, RestAPI, SQL (Advanced)
May 1, 2025 - April 28, 2026
CFA Level 1
November 1, 2024 - April 28, 2026
Financial Modeling and Valuation Analyst (FMVA)
January 1, 2025 - September 27, 2026
Financial Planning and Analysis Professional (FPAP)
January 1, 2025 - September 27, 2026
Microsoft Office Specialist: Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
June 1, 2025 - September 27, 2026
HackerRank: Python, REST API, and SQL Certifications
May 1, 2025 - September 27, 2026
freeCodeCamp: Data Analysis with Python / Scientific Computing with Python
June 1, 2025 - September 27, 2026
Advanced Private Wealth Management
January 1, 2026 - September 27, 2026
CFA Institute Member (active Regular Membership)
January 1, 2026 - September 27, 2026

Industry Experience

Financial Services, Software & Internet, Professional Services, Education, Other, Media & Entertainment