Jan 2024 – Apr 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos · Da Nang City, Vietnam · Hybrid

• Helping SmartDevs BFSI customers deliver financial services.

Nov 2023 – Dec 2023 · 1 mo

• I hatched a plan that was about as well-thought-out as a cat's strategy for chasing a laser pointer. I'd take a break, enroll in AI courses, and transform myself from a mere mortal into a data-wrangling superhero. My mission? To vanquish spreadsheets with the power of Python and bring justice to the land of big data.
• So, I made the bold decision to take a break from my current job and delve into the world of AI. During this hiatus, I would immerse myself in AI courses, collaborate with experts, and stay updated with the latest advancements. It was a leap of faith, a departure from the familiar, but it was driven by a deep passion and a desire to align my career with my true calling.

Jun 2023 – Oct 2023 · 4 mos · Prague, Czechia · Hybrid

• Steered a critical pivot from planned international expansion to a focused strategy of launching and rebranding the flagship app to "MaxBank," culminating in its seamless integration into the group's digital factory. My leadership was pivotal in navigating the team through this transition, ensuring strategic alignment and operational efficiency.
• Our short-term objectives include:
• ✅Product Launch: Spearheaded the successful launch of the MaxBank app in October 2023, meeting aggressive timelines and strategic objectives.
• ✅Cost Optimization: Implemented strategic initiatives that resulted in a 25% reduction in IT spending, significantly improving financial performance.
• ✅Brand Transformation: Directed the comprehensive rebranding effort for MaxBank, enhancing the company's market positioning and customer appeal.
• ✅Strategic Merger: Facilitated the smooth integration of the startup into a sister company within the same group, which was instrumental in optimizing group-wide resources and capabilities.
• You can find out more about MaxBank's innovative solutions at Max Invest.

Jun 2020 – May 2023 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bangkok Metropolitan Area · Remote

• Entrusted with driving the engineering team's expansion from its nascent stage post-Series A funding through Series B, I spearheaded strategic scaling initiatives and process optimizations to accommodate rapid growth and technological advancements.
• Achievements:
• ✅ Team Expansion: Successfully expanded the engineering team from 10 to 65, implementing scalable processes and fostering a collaborative environment conducive to growth.
• ✅ Onboarding Efficiency: Revolutionized the onboarding process, enabling new developers to contribute meaningfully within their first two weeks, significantly reducing ramp-up time.
• ✅ Strategic Partnerships: Cultivated relationships with external partners, enhancing our capacity to meet dynamic project demands and ensuring seamless integration.
• ✅ Vendor Management: Spearheaded the addition of an external delivery partner, augmenting our team's capabilities and flexibility in project execution.
• ✅ Project Delivery: Led several pivotal open banking projects for prestigious clients such as MAS, Proxtera, Netbank, and Ecebuana, reinforcing Brankas' position in the fintech sector.
• ✅ Product Innovation: Directed development and implementation of an Internet Payment Gateway for two major clients, marking a milestone in our product offerings.
• ✅ Quality Assurance: Established a dedicated QA team, hiring and mentoring ten quality assurance specialists, which led to a significant uplift in product delivery standards.
• ✅ Operational Excellence: Achieved a substantial improvement in DORA metrics through strategic initiatives like codebase segmentation and the introduction of OKRs, enhancing release independence, deployment reliability, mean lead time, and change failure rate.

Aug 2017 – May 2020 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bangkok, Bangkok City, Thailand

• Build the digital/mobile sales portal.
• Achievements:
• ✅Recruited the whole team and increased it from 2 to 40
• ✅Delivered the Solution design of the app
• ✅Standardize software engineering practices so our maintenance costs decreased
• ✅Improved overall software quality by coaching best practices to the team
• ✅Build and improved on CI/CD for faster deliver
• ✅Mentor senior engineers to become technical leaders within the organisation

Aug 2016 – Aug 2017 · 1 yr · Bangkok, Bangkok City, Thailand

• Hired as contractor for 1 year to assist in the Digital transformation @KTAXA. Training a Scrum team in Agile fundamentals.
• Achievements:
• ✅Defined an Agile Roadmap removing dependencies which improved deliveries from 4 times per year to every 2 week sprint cycle.
• ✅Build an internal coaching community.
• ✅Training Product Owners and Scrum Masters

May 2015 – Apr 2016 · 11 mos · Remote

• 💁Assisted companies to startup in or migrate to the public cloud via a completely automated system using Terraform and Puppet. For these clients we provided 24/7 operational management of this infrastructure in the cloud
• 📦Additional services provide DevOps engagement, helping development teams to set up a continuous delivery pipeline using a DevOps maturity model. We coached teams and helped them implement techniques to reach this goal
• 💁Help our clients to design public cloud architecture, and also coach and mentor clients in DevOps culture and techniques so they could increase their delivery frequency to production

Oct 2011 – May 2015 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Remote

• At cooldevops we provided remote system administration services and helped development teams implement good DEVOPS practices to speed up releases as painlessly as possible.
• 🚀Worked for established startups; customers including Oxynade, tapcrowd, and BeatSwitch depended on our expertise.
• Joined with Skyscrapers in May 2015 and parted ways in May 2016.

Nov 2007 – Aug 2015 · 7 yrs 9 mos · Brussels Metropolitan Area

• As independent Consultant my expertise was in Digital Transformations. I worked as Agile Coach and Program/Project Manager in different industries.
• Former clients:
• Carrefour (retail)
• BPOST (government)
• Atos Worldline (finance - payment processor)
• Corelio (multimedia)
• Kraft foods (retail)
• Telenet (telecom)
• Landbouwkrediet (finance - bank)
• NMBS (government)
• De Lijn (government)
• Duval Guillaime (agency)
• European Railway (government)

Apr 2004 – Oct 2007 · 3 yrs 6 mos

• 🚀Responsible for all releases up to 4.0 of our Enterprise Content Management Suite; scoping architectural design, defining features and also created a strategy for developing an API component, permitting us to generate additional revenue. API is sold as OEM and was used by major software vendors (e.g. http://www.side-international.com/) in their products.
• 👨‍💼Managed several smaller projects, with average budgets ranging from €50,000 to €100,000. Researched and set up an outsourcing organizational structure in Belarus which meant a huge cost-saving on our development. The success with these teams was implementing SCRUM for our development. Additionally I led and managed our office in Sharjah (Emirates) where we employed several developers working on our product development lifecycle. Managed 3 people in Belgium, 2 in Sharjah and 5 people in Belarus. Regularly traveled abroad to meet clients, and visited the Sharjah office / outsourcing partner in Belarus.
• 🥇Led and managed the production department in a structured and profitable fashion. In late 2006, the operational management was handed over to me because the owner was diagnosed with cancer. During this period I performed the interim-management and my mission was to find a take-over candidate. The owner died in February and I managed to operate the company until July when I found a take-over candidate (http://www.investik.eu/), and assisted them in the due diligence and the acquisition. document management tasks. This permitted large end-user accounts important cost-savings because of the automated workflow and thus resulting in minimal manual labor.