Ryan Do

Operations and product manager with 2+ years in Vietnam's blockchain and fintech space, focused on building compliant crypto products from the ground up.

Experience covers regulatory sandbox licensing, crypto custody setup, and hands-on product delivery across operations, product, and growth. Comfortable operating in resource-constrained, high-ambiguity environments - from regulatory filings to shipping product.

Operation Manager at BASAL PAY (2025-02 – Present)

Vietnam first crypto-licensed project

• Built Basal Pay's operations from scratch as one of the founding team members - covering product setup, compliance processes, and go-to-market groundwork.
• Led end-to-end regulatory attainment for El Salvador DASP license as sole PIC - covering documentation, paperwork, regulatory presentation, and remote testimony before the regulator.
• Worked across Product, Operations, and Growth to keep everyone aligned on both product direction and compliance requirements.
• Secured and operationalized a 36-month regulatory sandbox with 3 official pilot sites, leading end-to-end regulatory execution from application to approval.
• Set up Fireblocks-based custody and liquidity controls - including asset segregation, hot/cold wallet layers, and treasury monitoring; performed on-chain reconciliation of wallet balances against internal ledger to identify and resolve discrepancies, reducing payment failures by 30% during high-volume periods.

Product Management Specialist at ALPHATRUE (2024-07 – Present)

Blockchain Deal-Sourcing company

• Won a competitive bid against 4 industry leaders to secure the contract, then delivered product specs for a DID-based digital identity wallet - turning regulatory and client requirements into PRDs/BRDs; team shipped within 8 weeks.
• Delivered ISO 27001 certification as sole PIC - managed progress tracking, documentation supplementation, and cross-functional coordination across Legal, Office, Tech, and Accounting teams.
• Led a team of 3 developers to deliver an NFT educational certificate platform - managed sprint planning, unblocked technical dependencies, and shipped on schedule for institution to issue tokenized certificates for +1000 users.
• Coordinated delivery across Marketing and Development teams for 5 DeFi projects (combined fundraise: $12M+), tracking milestones and unblocking cross-team dependencies on behalf of the CPO.

Web3 Research Lead at VIETNAM BLOCKCHAIN ASSOCIATION - CHAIN TRACER PROGRAM (2024-02 – 2025-08)

• ChainTracer by VBA: Applied on-chain analytics and KYT-adjacent methodologies to trace fraudulent transactions across EVM and UTXO-based chains (BTC), producing 5+ evidence-grade incident reports for National Police Department (A05 & PC05).
• Produced weekly and quarterly crypto market intelligence reports distributed to +50,000 members and stakeholders, covering macro trends, regulatory shifts, and on-chain signals to inform association strategy and member advisory.
• Organized 9 seminars on blockchain market trends, collaborating with research teams and technical teams to disseminate critical industry insights effectively.

Bachelor in Financial Technology – UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND FINANCE (2022 – 2026)