Soonkhen Owyong
Executive Director at Rethink Charity
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolSoonkhen Owyong is an executive director and former engineering leader with 14 years of experience building high-impact fintech and marketplace systems and scaling teams and platforms. Based in Vancouver, he now leads Rethink Charity’s Canadian strategy—streamlining operations, implementing OKRs, and preserving over a year of operational reserves while narrowing focus to the RC Forward effective giving platform. Prior roles include VP of Engineering and CTO-level leadership where he scaled systems to handle 100x peak load, shipped cross-border payments and fraud detection features, and used Monte Carlo modeling to inform product milestones. He combines hands-on technical chops with nonprofit fiscal sponsorship and donation-reconciliation expertise, and has a track record of turning early-stage products into acquisitions and sustainable programs. An entrepreneur since university, he brings both rigorous operational discipline and a mission-driven focus on maximizing counterfactual impact.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Management Information Systems, Bachelor of Science Management Information Systems at San José State UniversityChung Ling (National Type) High School 鍾靈(國民型)中學Salzburg Global Seminar
Chinese, Chinese, Malay, hokkien, Spanish, Indonesian
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Github Skills (105)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
owyongsk/sk-vim-files
Mar 2015 - Feb 2022
Contributions:23 pushes in 7 years
owyongsk/chameleon
Aug 2017 - Nov 2022
Contributions:21 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
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