Hatta Zainal
Head Of Product Engineering at Be U by Bank Islam
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Summary
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Top SchoolHatta Zainal is a seasoned engineering leader with 20+ years of experience across fintech, crypto, and enterprise, currently serving as Head of Product Engineering in Kuala Lumpur. He combines hands-on backend expertise—especially in Elixir/Phoenix, distributed systems and AWS microservices—with a strong track record of building and coaching high-performing teams. At Be U by Bank Islam he drove R&D for customer-facing innovations, shortened mobile release cycles from quarterly to monthly, and shipped features like a personalized financial milestone video using distributed pipelines. His career spans bank-grade digital platforms at RHB and Maybank to hands-on roles at BlockFi and freelance advocacy for the BEAM ecosystem, blending product-focused delivery with developer evangelism. He’s pragmatic about engineering practices, having improved CI/CD, DevSecOps and Git workflows to boost security and time-to-market. Quietly, he retains a builder’s mindset—still coding and mentoring—while operating at the intersection of product strategy and resilient cloud-native architecture.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Yayasan Pelajaran Mara Kuala Lumpur
English, Malay
Github Skills (8)
backend7
orchestra5
skeleton5
php3
docker2
hashing-algorithm2
elixir2
kubernetes2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
laksamanakeris/bijakhq-server
Apr 2018 - Jul 2020
Source-code for Bijak Trivia backend services. Bijak is a live trivia game show inspired by HQ Trivia.
Contributions:496 commits, 3 PRs, 1 push in 2 years 3 months
backend-servicestrivia-gamebackendhq-triviagame-show
laksamanakeris/PayPal
Nov 2018 - Nov 2021
:money_with_wings: PayPal REST API client for the Elixir language (elixir-lang)
Contributions:7 pushes in 3 years
api-clientapipaypal-restelixirlang
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