Senior Engineering Manager

• Nov 2021 - Present

VP of Engineering

• Mar 2017 - Nov 2021

- Responsible for the development and delivery of BSD’s first and only software product - an online technology-education platform.- I was responsible for all core technical decisions and shared product design decisions with other stakeholders. - Director of the Thai company, supervising accounting and business matters.- Defined the technology roadmap in conjunction with the rest of senior management.- Handled all technology team hiring, from start to finish, hiring around 20 engineers, designers and other staff during my time at BSD.- Line manager to all dev team members, conducting 1-2-1s, coaching, staff appraisals and salary reviews.- Designed the platform’s architecture on Amazon Web Services using Route 53, EC2, Cloud Front, RDS, S3, Elastic Beanstalk, Cloud Formation, Kinesis, EMR, Data Pipeline, Lambda, API Gateway.- Championed quality by setting a good example, providing written guidelines, conducting thorough code reviews and prioritising continuous integration and automated testing.Technologies: JavaScript, React.js, Redux, RxJS, HTML, CSS3, SASS, webpack, Node.js, Amazon Web Services, Redis, PostgreSQL

Development Team Lead

• Mar 2016 - Mar 2017

- Recruited as the first member of the development team, responsible for hiring and managing the rest of the team. I handled the entire recruitment process and put together a solid team of Thai and expat software engineers.- Prioritised all tasks, design solutions, assign tasks, review all code as well as personally tackling some of the most difficult tasks.- Within 7 months I had hired a team and built an MVP. This allowed the whole business to pivot from a outsourced technology education provider to a PAAS provider with associated curriculum and teacher support.Technologies: React.js, Redux, Node.js, webpack, nginx, Amazon Web Services, Redis, HTML, CSS3, JavaScript, SASS, PostgreSQL

Senior Software Engineer

• May 2013 - Mar 2016

- Implemented the headline feature for Massive 8.0 - "20,000 agents in real-time”, which is a 100 fold improvement in performance with minimal compromises in quality. - Built most of the tools in Massive for Maya. - Developed many of the new features in Massive versions 6.0 to 8.0. - Primary sys-admin and webmaster for the customer web portal. Technologies: C, C++, OpenGL, Maya SDK, Windows, Linux (CentOS and Fedora), Xen virtualization, SELinux, PHP, MySQL, Bash. - Implemented the headline feature for Massive 8.0 - "20,000 agents in real-time”, which is a 100 fold improvement in performance with minimal compromises in quality. - Built most of the tools in Massive for Maya. - Developed many of the new features in Massive versions 6.0 to 8.0. - Primary sys-admin and webmaster for the customer web portal. Technologies: C, C++, OpenGL, Maya SDK, Windows, Linux (CentOS and Fedora), Xen virtualization, SELinux, PHP, MySQL, Bash.

Principal Engineer

• Jan 2007 - Apr 2013

- Managed a team of 5 software engineers, involved in all stages of development: requirements analysis and negotiation, planning, estimation, allocating tasks, designing solutions, reviewing work, and reporting to stakeholders. - Led an organisation-wide initiative to integrate a build tool, dependency management tool and artifact repository into the development workflow. Within the organisation this project was the first ever to be made open-source, as a Gradle plugin. - Led a sub-team of 4 developers to address all quality and stability concerns for a major release. The outcome exceeded expectations and I was given an award. - As a trained coach I helped staff to find solutions to their problems and achieve their goals, helping to support a rewarding and productive workplace. - Submitted several inventions to be considered for patenting. - Technologies: Visual Studio, C# .NET, WinForms, WPF, NUnit, Rhino Mocks, C++/CLI, C++, COM, DirectX, STL, Boost, Gradle, Artifactory, Jenkins, Cruisecontrol.NET, SVN, Mercurial XML, XPath, XSLT (Contractor prior to Nov 2011)

Owner

• Jan 2007 - Nov 2011

Provided consulting and software engineering services, occasionally using sub-contractors. Provided consulting and software engineering services, occasionally using sub-contractors.

Software Developer

• Jan 2005 - Aug 2005

Worked on Voxar 3D medical imaging software using ‘Extreme Programming’ methodology and programming in C++. Developed an automated testing framework in Python to run performance regression tests and system functionality tests by simulating mouse/keyboard events. Worked on Voxar 3D medical imaging software using ‘Extreme Programming’ methodology and programming in C++. Developed an automated testing framework in Python to run performance regression tests and system functionality tests by simulating mouse/keyboard events.

Software Engineer

• Jan 2001 - May 2003

Three published video game titles: ‘Evil Dead: A Fistful Of Boomstick’, PS2 and Xbox, released 2003. ‘Brave: Search for Spirit Dancer’, PS2, released 2005. ‘State Of Emergency 2’, PS2 and Xbox, released 2006. Experience of AI, path-finding, obstacle avoidance, animation, physics, camera, script/data compilers, front-end menu, resource management and special effects Technologies: C, Visual Studio 6, SN Systems ProDG, Xbox SDK. Three published video game titles: ‘Evil Dead: A Fistful Of Boomstick’, PS2 and Xbox, released 2003. ‘Brave: Search for Spirit Dancer’, PS2, released 2005. ‘State Of Emergency 2’, PS2 and Xbox, released 2006. Experience of AI, path-finding, obstacle avoidance, animation, physics, camera, script/data compilers, front-end menu, resource management and special effects Technologies: C, Visual Studio 6, SN Systems ProDG, Xbox SDK.