Alex Co
Senior Machine Learning Engineering Manager at Grab
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Co is a Senior Machine Learning Engineering Manager based in Kuala Lumpur with 15+ years of experience building and scaling high-performance cloud platforms and engineering teams. He has a proven track record of driving cost-efficient infrastructure (e.g., 70% AWS cost reduction through spot/preemptible migration) and leading platform modernizations that boost performance and cut operational spend. At Mindvalley he delivered dramatic improvements—50% system performance gain, 30% lower ops cost, and an AI knowledge base with 50%+ weekly adoption—while managing and mentoring cross-functional teams. As a founder/CTO and early-stage engineering leader, he has repeatedly turned struggling products into revenue drivers and built engineering organizations from the ground up. He blends hands-on SRE and platform architecture expertise with product-minded leadership, favoring pragmatic automation, SLO-driven reliability, and progressive delivery practices. Outside obvious metrics, he consistently translates infrastructure work into measurable business outcomes and rapid time-to-market for new services.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Diploma at Tran Hung Dao Gifted High School
English, Vietnamese
Github Skills (200)
reverse-proxy10
controller10
python10
health-check10
proxy10
consul10
haproxy10
chatgpt10
data-center10
letsencrypt10
service-discovery10
vault10
golang10
developer-tools10
kubernetes10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
mindvalley/prometheus-bigquery-exporter
Mar 2022 - Nov 2024
An exporter for converting BigQuery results into Prometheus metrics
Contributions:1 review, 8 PRs, 8 pushes in 2 years 8 months
exporterbigqueryconvertingprometheus-metricsprometheus
mindvalley/danswer
Mar 2024 - Nov 2024
Gen-AI Chat for Teams - Think ChatGPT if it had access to your team's unique knowledge.
Contributions:149 PRs, 145 pushes, 190 branches in 8 months
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