About Us

Peter-Jan "PJ" Celis wrote our first line of code on his 29th birthday in January 2015. He first worked on Judge.me as a weekend and evening project, going full time in June of 2016.

Before founding Judge.me, PJ was a strategy consultant, Ruby on Rails developer, marketing lead in medical tourism, and founder of an online arbitration company.

PJ is from Belgium but now lives in Saigon, Vietnam. He holds a master degree in applied economics from the KULeuven.

Linh Dam is the CTO of Judge.me and was involved in the project from day 1. Originally working weekends on Judge.me starting January 2015, Linh went full time in April of 2016.

Before Judge.me, Linh was the front-end lead for HipVan, a multimillion dollar furniture ecommerce company based in Singapore. Linh is a fullstack developer, building on his job experience as a Ruby of Rails developer.

Linh is born and raised in Saigon, Vietnam. He holds a bachelor degree in computer science from RMIT.

Duc Trinh joined Judge.me as a developer in May of 2017.

Before Judge.me, Duc was a senior developer at DocDoc, a medical tourism platform, and Mingle2, a dating website. In his free time, Duc is developing a commercial grade flight simulator (!).

Duc is born and raised in Saigon, Vietnam. He holds a bachelor degree in software engineering from RMIT and a private and commercial pilot license from the Liberty School of Aeronautics.

Octavian Babus joined Judge.me as a developer in May of 2017. A logician from Romania, Octavian became a developer after moving to Vietnam.

Before Judge.me, Octavian was a Ruby on Rails developer at Dagobia.io, a fledgling ecommerce platform.

Octavian was born and raised in Bucharest, Romania. He holds a master degree in mathematics from the University of Bucharest and a PhD in computer science from the University of Leicester.

An Duong has been a part time advisor to Judge.me since the beginning, taking on a more established role in April 2017 when An started joining our weekly team meetings.

An is the lead developer at TourMega, a travel platform. Before TourMega, An was the lead developer at HipVan, a multimillion dollar furniture ecommerce company based in Singapore.

An was born and raised in Phan Tiet, Vietnam and now lives in Saigon, Vietnam. He holds a bachelor degree in computer science from The Ho Chi Minh University of Science.