Backend engineer & system architect.
14+ years across fintech, marketplaces, and high-traffic web platforms. Recent work centres on large-scale platform modernisation, distributed-system reliability, and migration architecture. Strong background in payments and financial systems, API design, and event-driven architectures. Based in Chiang Mai, Thailand — open to remote consulting and full-time roles.
Sep 2024 – Present
Senior Engineer — Migration & Backend Architecture
Carro Group (Kaidee) · Bangkok
- Architecting consolidation of 60+ legacy services into a modular Laravel monolith — service topology, delivery sequencing, phased migration.
- Designed GCP service consolidation projected to cut infra spend ~63% (~$204K/yr); replaced Akamai CDN with a custom CDN/WAF (~$4K/mo saved).
- Consolidated 11 PostgreSQL + 1 MySQL databases into a unified schema; built a Go change-data-capture layer on logical replication for continuous migration.
- Kong API-gateway routing for partner integrations, auth policies, rate limiting; centralised logging + trace correlation for Temporal workflows.
Jun 2024 – Feb 2026
Backend Engineer & Architect — Independent Consultant
Confidential AU fintech client · Remote
- Designed and built a backend escrow payment API with state-machine-driven payment status workflows.
- Integrated Westpac bank feeds for transaction ingestion and validation; operated AWS infra with attention to idempotency and reconciliation.
2024 – Present
Independent R&D — Code Intelligence System
Self-directed
- Self-funded multi-language codebase analysis platform: AST parsing, hybrid semantic + lexical retrieval, call-graph analysis, and an agentic code-generation pipeline with self-review quality gates.
Mar 2024 – Jun 2024
Tech Lead
FreshKet · Bangkok
- Led backend architecture and delivery for commerce-platform services with a 4-engineer squad; introduced structured code review + CI guardrails.
Jan 2023 – Nov 2023
Head of Software Development
DevelopNow.io · Bangkok
- Directed a distributed team of 12 engineers building high-traffic mobile and web platforms; designed scalable backend infra and improved availability.
Feb 2022 – Jan 2023
Tech Lead
NFQ Thailand · Bangkok
- Led API and platform development for European e-commerce and recruitment clients; improved API performance and integration reliability.
Nov 2018 – Jan 2022
Solution Architect / Tech Lead
Digital Money Myanmar (Wave Money) · Yangon
- Wave Money — Myanmar's largest mobile financial services platform (millions of wallet users, national merchant network).
- Designed payment-gateway APIs enabling 100+ enterprise merchants (Telenor, Ooredoo, shop.com.mm); drove evolution from monolith toward domain-driven services.
2015 – 2022
Founder & Instructor
Tech Guru MM · Yangon
- Founded a software-education startup; trained 1,000+ students in backend engineering, system design, and modern practices — several progressed into senior/leadership roles.
Languages
Go, PHP (Laravel), Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Flutter
Architecture
Modular monolith, microservices, event-driven, DDD, CDC, API-gateway design, migration strategy
Data & Infra
PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, Oracle, Kafka, Temporal, Kong, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP
Reliability
Load testing (k6), observability, centralised logging, CI/CD
Mentoring
Top 1% mentor on ADPList — 100+ engineers mentored across 5,000+ minutes on architecture, system design, and career growth.
Education
- BSc (Hons) Computing — University of Greenwich, UK
- Level 5 Diploma in Computing — NCC Education, UK
- Diploma in Information Technology — Government Technology College, Yangon
- Yoma Leading Way Leadership Programme — Batch 3, 2020