Summary
Chino Smitthikunanon is an Engineering Manager based in Bangkok with nearly two decades of software experience and 12 years in hands-on engineering roles, currently leading backend architecture and delivery for True Digital Group's TrueID subscription platform. He designs and operates systems that scale to 50 million subscribers and 200K concurrent users, leveraging Go, microservices, container platforms (OpenShift, GKE), messaging (Kafka, Google Pub/Sub, NATS) and a mix of databases from Oracle to Couchbase. A pragmatic leader and mentor, he drives team performance, code quality (SonarCloud, Pluralsight Flow) and API-driven integrations with telco, payment and streaming partners. He has deep operational experience in logging and observability (Graylog, Grafana, Prometheus, New Relic) and is actively migrating on-prem services to cloud-native patterns. Notably, he shifted TrueID from pull-based to push-based flows and balanced heterogeneous datastore choices to meet real-world consistency and scalability trade-offs. His background in MEAN, PHP frameworks and formal IT management education gives him a rare blend of legacy-system empathy and modern cloud-native engineering.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Science / Math, High School, Science / Math at Assumption College Rayong
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, 3.42, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, 3.42 at Phranakhon Rajabhat University
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Management of Information Technology, 3.60, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Management of Information Technology, 3.60 at Walailak University
Thai, English