Michael Saechang
Technical Director at Seeds of Life Church
Diamond Bar, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorMichael Saechang is a seasoned technical leader with 18 years of experience building and scaling global engineering and QA organizations, most notably at Liferay where he progressed from hands-on SQA engineer to Senior Manager and Director roles. He blends a deep foundation in quality assurance—test automation, performance testing, and process standardization—with people-first leadership, recruiting and mentoring managers and engineers across North America, Asia, Europe, and South America. Michael has a track record of organizational transformation: establishing new testing branches (notably in Dalian), reducing turnover dramatically, and aligning career paths and compensation across regions. He partners closely with product, sales, and executive teams to ensure engineering delivery and product reliability serve strategic business goals. Now serving as Technical Director for a production-heavy environment at Seeds of Life Church, he applies enterprise-grade practices to live-event AV, livestream, and internal IT systems. Beyond management, he contributes to open-source maintenance (Liferay plugins), showing attention to detail in documentation and code hygiene that scales across teams.
18 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
English, Thai
Github Skills (5)
plugin-development10
html10
liferay10
documentation9
front-end-development7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
liferay/liferay-plugins
Apr 2008 - Aug 2008
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:24 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to cleaning up plugins, likely removing redundancies and standardizing code within the Liferay plugins repository. The commits involve modifications to `summary.html` file, updating descriptions, and correcting information about the plugins. This suggests involvement in maintaining and organizing the project's plugin catalog and ensuring accuracy within the documentation.
liferay/liferay-portal
Jan 2008 - Nov 2011
Contributions:235 commits in 3 years 11 months
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