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Contributor & Product Researcher
David Nguyen
Recovering software engineer who left tech to write about Southeast Asian and Indian teas. Currently obsessed with pu-erh.
Heritage: Vietnamese-American
About David
David grew up in Houston drinking his father's lotus tea and his mother's condensed-milk chai. After a decade as a software engineer, he quit to travel through Vietnam, India, and Sri Lanka writing about tea traditions and sourcing. He joined Cha2go in 2024 to handle product research and Southeast/South Asian coverage.
David's specialty is the long tail — the Vietnamese lotus teas, Indian tulsi blends, Sri Lankan Ceylon, and Chinese pu-erh that mainstream American tea coverage skips entirely. He's also the person who built Cha2go's Amazon data pipeline and does the quantitative product analysis.
Credentials
- BS Computer Science, Rice University
- 10+ years software engineering (Amazon, former Shopify)
- 2-year sabbatical researching Southeast Asian tea traditions (2022-2024)
- Vietnamese heritage, conversational Mandarin + Vietnamese
Coverage areas
Vietnamese teas (lotus, snow tea)Indian teas (chai, darjeeling, tulsi, assam)Chinese pu-erh + oolongSri Lankan CeylonProduct research + Amazon curation
Articles by David (5)
- Dirty Chai Latte: The Chai-Plus-Espresso Recipe at Home— Apr 13, 2026
- Starbucks Chai Tea Latte at Home: The Real Recipe (Hot + Iced)— Apr 1, 2026
- What Is Chai Tea? The Complete Guide to India's Most Beloved Drink— Mar 25, 2026
- What Is Pu-erh Tea? The Complete Guide to China's Aged Fermented Tea— Mar 22, 2026
- Oolong Tea: The Complete Guide to Asia's Most Complex Tea Category— Mar 15, 2026