Phakorn Kiong
Director Of Engineering at Pave Bank
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolPhakorn Kiong is a Director of Engineering with 8 years of hands-on experience scaling payment systems and platform tooling, currently leading engineering at Pave Bank after joining as a founding engineer. A self-taught coder turned Georgia Tech master's student, he blends product-minded technical leadership with deep delivery experience in CI/CD, IaC (Terraform), test automation, and FX systems from his time at XanPool. He has a track record of driving measurable improvements—70% faster deployments, significant test and compilation speedups, and more accurate foreign-exchange engines—while also shipping customer-facing features like secure single-use checkout links. Beyond engineering, he actively contributes to community and education initiatives, has written technical articles on Medium, and maintains a public portfolio and source code on GitHub and GitHub Pages. His background in civil engineering and early roles in infrastructure projects give him a practical systems-thinking approach to building resilient software and teams. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who focuses on tangible impact for both users and the broader community.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Civil, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Civil at Universiti MalayaGraduate Certificate in Computing Foundations Computer Science, Graduate Certificate in Computing Foundations Computer Science at National University of Singapore
English, Malay, Thai, Chinese
Github Skills (200)
postgresql10
variants10
windows10
gcp10
infrastructure10
pdf-generation10
serverless10
microservices10
backend10
umd10
unleash10
backend-framework10
simplify10
javascript10
feature-toggle10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
PhakornKiong/SimpleBlogDeployed
May 2020 - Sep 2021
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
PhakornKiong/pdf-lib
Oct 2021 - Aug 2023
Create and modify PDF documents in any JavaScript environment
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
pdfpdf-documentsjavascriptmodifypdf-generation
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