Htet Wai Yan SoeOpen to Head of Engineering roles — relocation or remote

I modernise legacy platforms that can’t afford downtime.

Engineering leader with 14+ years across mobile financial services, marketplaces and consumer platforms — platform modernisation, payments, reliability, and production AI. I have hired and interviewed more than 200 engineers and led teams of up to twelve.

Book a call EmailBased in Chiang Mai, Thailand · remote · GMT+7

Selected workAll work →

Systems I have designed, built and operate. Most of my current work is in private repositories, so these are the pieces I can show.

Raenil

Open source · Live

Self-hosted project management for AI + human-in-the-loop work

Go
SvelteKit
Svelte 5
PostgreSQL
MCP

Case study Live

Nani

In development

Zero-downtime, cloud-agnostic deployment for Laravel — one binary

Go
Cobra
Bubble Tea
chi
SvelteKit

Case study

Forgot Again?

In development

Auto-captures every baht and kyat — 100% on-device, never your bank login

Flutter
Riverpod
Drift/SQLite
ML Kit
Tesseract

Case study

Lumos

R&D · Personal

A code-intelligence engine that makes AI agents fluent in my codebase

Go
ParadeDB
tree-sitter
MCP
Gemini

Case study

What I help with

Platform modernisation & migration

Consolidating sprawling service estates into maintainable architectures — phased, reversible, and shipping the whole way. Reverse-engineered maps, delivery sequencing, change-data-capture cutovers.

Backend architecture & APIs

System design for high-traffic platforms: event-driven and domain-driven services, API-gateway strategy, payments and financial systems, idempotency and reconciliation.

Reliability & cost

Distributed-system reliability, observability and trace correlation, load testing, and infrastructure cost reduction — cutting rented complexity without a big-bang rewrite.

About

14 years shipping platforms teams rely on.

Fractional CTO of a streaming platform I rebuilt end to end after a vendor handover. Before that, platform modernisation at Kaidee, Thailand's largest classifieds marketplace, and three years at Wave Money — Myanmar's first licensed and largest mobile financial services provider — where I owned the web platform estate.

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14+ years
200+ engineers hired & interviewed
100+ engineers mentored
Top 1% ADPList mentor

Have a platform that needs work?

Open to Head of Engineering roles — relocation or remote. Let's talk.

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