Work Experience

Prive provides wealth management solutions for various financial institutions: insurance companies, family offices, private and retail banks.

I lead a team of engineers and architected tech solutions for ordering and core banking products.

Responsibilities

• Hire, onboard, train, and manage software developers team
• Root cause analysis of incidents and their resolution
• Design and implement software architecture based on product and project requirements
• Temporary management of two other tech teams due to the limited leadership headcount

Key Achivements

• Hired engineers, ensured knowledge transfer and preservation
• Streamlined software development process
• Completed previously stuck project for a major client
• Delivered a complete ordering solution for a new investment platform
• Orchestration of trading between security custodian, bank, and Prive itself
• Event-based system of interconnected services
• New core banking system: a transactions ledger of individual accounts
• Solution was reused across multiple clients with minimal adjustments

Lalamove is one of the major on-demand delivery platforms in SEA and a Hong Kong "unicorn".

I joined as a software team leader, later transitioned to an engineering manager role. I established and improved various parts of the software development process, hired and on-boarded software teams, act as an architect and managed Platform organisation. Later, I lead a new tech team and launched a greenfield project (Lalamove+).

Responsibilities

• Build and run full-stack teams
• Manage and grow Platform department, ~30-40 engineers
• Manage tech debt backlog
• Review, correct, and improve architecture and API proposals
• Act as a hiring manager for backend software engineers

Key Achivements

• Fixed stability problems of а key legacy system
• Reduced tech team dependency for operational requests by creating product configuration panel
• Removed tech team dependency for the service expansion to a new city and reduced tech team dependency for expansion to a new country to one man-week (~5x improvement)
• Improved tests automation: increased coverage, setup standards, coached and onboarded engineers
• Setup quality control measures (reviews, checklists, canary deployments, feature flags, etc.)
• Defined software engineer hiring process
• Launched Lalamove+, enterprise solution for high-profile clients

AfterShip is a world-leading eCommerce shipment tracking platform.

Joined as a senior engineer, later transitioned to a team leader. I built the AfterShip plugin system foundation and key parts of postmen.com, shipping label generation platform.

Responsibilities

• Manage software developers team
• Design and implement backend systems architecture and interfaces
• Guarantee quality and feature completeness
• Guide junior engineers
• Technical assessment of engineering candidates

Key Achivements

• Upgraded and unified AfterShip eCommerce integration platform aftership.com/apps
• Designed architecture of postmen.com to provide easy integration of new delivery services with minimum tech team involvement

I worked on premium content protection systems.

• Implemented various parts of content protection protocols
• Provided bug fixes, performance improvements, resolved race conditions
• Implemented kernel/driver level cross-platform code (Linux and Windows)
• Implemented scripts for infrastructure automation and builds
• Performed static code analysis. Fixed identified problems