Vaughn Friesen
Senior Engineering Manager at Grab
Singapore, Singapore
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Top SchoolVaughn Friesen is a Senior Engineering Manager at Grab with 12 years of experience building and scaling backend systems for loyalty, offers, and subscriptions across Southeast Asia. He led the architecture and onboarding of the Offers Platform that serves 10+ verticals and rearchitected promotion systems to dramatically improve stability and scalability for millions of discounts and recurring-revenue products. A hands-on leader who progressed from founding member of GrabRewards to managing multiple teams, he combines product-focused execution with deep technical ownership of platforms like Abacus for points management. Based in Singapore, Vaughn has a background in computer science and mathematics and an early entrepreneurial streak—he founded a small software shop and shipped a top-rated open-source BlackBerry app. Colleagues see him as a pragmatic problem-solver who balances cross-vertical collaboration with measurable business impact.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University Certificate, Computing and Information Services, University Certificate, Computing and Information Services at Athabasca UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Double Honours Computer Science and Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree, Double Honours Computer Science and Mathematics at University of Saskatchewan
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Github Skills (17)
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go8
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oracle6
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
MasterOfBinary/go-opencl
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:54 commits, 1 PR, 45 pushes in 6 days
MasterOfBinary/portfolio
Nov 2013 - Jan 2018
Contributions:47 commits, 17 pushes in 4 years 2 months
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