Kris Khaira
Engineering Manager Hirer Shared Services at Freelance
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Top SchoolKris Khaira is an experienced software engineer and engineering manager based in Kuala Lumpur with 14 years in professional roles and a technical career dating back to 2001. Currently leading Hirer Shared Services at SEEK, he drives platform modernization, developer experience improvements and cross-organisational tech health efforts that helped cut cloud costs by AUD 1.1M. He combines hands-on systems skills (AWS, CI/CD, monitoring, microservices) with people leadership—hiring, mentoring and creating IC career pathways and RTB guidance. His background spans startups to scale-ups, from CTO-level responsibilities at AirAsia Activities to early product engineering at Grab and MUBI, giving him breadth across front-end, back-end and infrastructure. He’s pragmatic about legacy migration and DevOps culture, often pairing with engineers on code and operational practices to raise team velocity. An understated strength is his track record of improving organisational processes (hiring, documentation, remote/async work) as well as measurable production outcomes.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computing Studies, Bachelor's Degree Computing Studies at Northumbria University
English, Malay
Stackoverflow
130reputation
5kreached
10answers
6questions
Github Skills (168)
ripgrep10
libgit210
grep10
ruby10
cjs10
iso10
directories10
command-line-tool10
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javascript10
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currency10
country-flags10
rust10
cli10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
kriskhaira/dotfiles
Jun 2015 - Dec 2020
Contributions:88 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
kriskhaira/laptop
May 2016 - Nov 2022
Contributions:62 commits, 57 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 6 months
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