Summary
Chatchavit Nitipongpun is a Senior Data Engineer (SRE) with 12 years of experience building and operating large-scale data platforms at Agoda, specializing in Kafka-driven pipelines, Kubernetes, and observability stacks. He has managed one of Southeast Asia’s largest production Kafka deployments (20+ clusters, 200+ brokers, >1.5T events daily), led security hardening and schema-validation efforts, and designed anomaly-detection systems that tie into incident workflows. Comfortable across Python, Java, Airflow, Hadoop, ELK, Grafana and both relational and streaming systems, he blends hands-on engineering with SRE rigor—writing lightweight client libraries, automation tools, and Slack bots to accelerate incident response. His background in QA and CI automation underscores a long-standing focus on reliability and repeatable delivery. Based in Bangkok, he pairs deep curiosity about extracting insight from data with a track record of improving visibility and resiliency at scale.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Grade 7-12, Science and Mathematics, 12, Grade 7-12, Science and Mathematics, 12 at Kanjanapisek Witthayalai Nakornphathom School
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering, 3.23, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering, 3.23 at Chulalongkorn University
English, Thai