Experiences
DemTech.ai [Since Mar 2024]
Lead Engineer (Core Systems): platform specification design, cloud infrastructure setup
Fireflies.ai [Jan 2020 to Jan 2024]
Senior Tech Lead [Nov 2021 to Jan 2024]
- reduce cloud cost by 80% while also uplifting SLI from ~90% to 99.9997%
- GDPR, SOC-2 type 2, HIPAA compliances; private cloud & storage offering
- architect AI/LLM features, research GPU/TPU clouds (providing 10x growth)
- host tech deep dives for engineering teams to cross pollinate ideas/efforts
Tech Lead [Jan 2021 to Oct 2021]
- complete transition to cloud-native infrastructure, with GitOps CICD pipelines
- setup security team, platform compliances, access control & incident management
- discover & mentor leads to handoff Infrastructure team as a self-sustainable team
- ensure global geo-distribution of engineers in each team for maximum availability
Infrastructure Lead [Apr 2020 to Dec 2024]
- design & prototype new infra to handle 100x volume upscale in 3 quarters
- write an efficient streaming pipeline to reduce transcription cost by 50%
- redesign bots as scale-out cloud-native jobs, massively increasing stability
- hire & mentor infrastructure team; setup monitoring, on-call rotations etc.
Senior Software Engineer [Jan 2020 to Mar 2021]
- reduce cumulative storage cost by 50%; implement MS Teams, BlueJeans support
- predict incoming usage surge due to pandemic; propose & initiate infra upgrade
DoSelect [Jun 2018 to Dec 2018]
Senior Software Engineer: full stack performance optimization & renovation
Red Hat [Aug 2012 to May 2018]
Software Engineer: SwCert DevTools, OpenShift.io developer platform
Technical Product Manager: Ceph, GlusterFS Unified SDS Manager
Endeavors
Applait [2014 to 2018] Co-founder, Director & CEO
A pursuit of Technological Singularity through Unified Communications, Self-authoring Software & Hybrid Super Intelligence.
Mozilla [2011 to 2016] Developer, Speaker, Leader
Contributed to Mozilla codebase, onboarded new developers, gave hundreds of tech talks & ran tech workshops, kicked off & completed new projects, made policy changes, built the regional community & lead the global one.
NexVend [2012 to 2016] Co-founder, Director & CTO
A web technology consultation firm, offering modernization, migration & management of online presence of larger southeast asian enterprises.