Ivan Choo
VP Of Engineering, APAC at Bitdefender
Singapore
Summary
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SeniorIvan Choo is a seasoned software engineering leader with over two decades of experience building products and scaling teams across Southeast Asia and China, now serving as VP of Engineering, APAC at Bitdefender. He specializes in taking early-stage engineering organizations from zero to product, having co-founded a startup and driven Horangi’s expansion from a single CSPM into a Gartner-recognized multi-cloud security platform with CIEM and threat detection. Ivan combines hands-on product architecture skills with operational rigor—leading SOC2 Type-2 certification, AWS Security Competency validations, and successful Series B fundraising and due diligence. His background spans both product and creative roles, from modernizing enterprise cybersecurity products in China to winning hackathons with a volunteer-focused social network prototype. Based in Singapore, he thrives in startup environments where culture, mission and technical excellence intersect. Colleagues describe him as a builder who repeatedly turns ambitious cloud-security visions into commercially validated platforms.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
2,027reputation
159kreached
33answers
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graphql
top-5%
Github Skills (24)
ios9
graphql9
graphene-python6
ui-popover6
sqlalchemy6
iphone6
python6
git-commit6
django6
objective-c6
git6
locate5
web-application4
searching4
csv4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ivanchoo/demo-csv-browser
Sep 2017 - Oct 2017
A web application that loads a CSV and enables searching through a large dataset to quickly locate data of interest. Build with React ⚛ & Python 🐍.
Contributions:45 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 11 days
csvreactpythonsqlalchemydataset
ivanchoo/demo-friends-management
Sep 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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