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Manchi Leung

VP of Engineering
With more than 20 years of experience in software development, Manchi recently served as Senior Vice President of Engineering in Central Group—the largest retail in Thailand—having experience to lead 150 engineers in Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh and Budapest office. Prior to Central Group, he had been working as the Head of Engineering role in Digital River to drive agile transformation and build large scale e-commerce. Manchi started career as Java consultant and certified as enterprise architect in Sun Microsystems. During leisure time, he is passionate about culinary arts.
Proxifile, Taipei
University of Adelaide
Taipei, 台灣

Professional Background

  • Current status
    Employed
  • Profession
    System Architecture
  • Fields
  • Work experience
    More than 15 years (More than 15 years relevant)
  • Management
    I've had experience in managing 15+ people
  • Skills
    Java software development
    AWS
    Agile Methodology
    Architecture Design
    Leadership + Management
    Culture & Engagement
  • Languages
    English
    Native or Bilingual
    Chinese
    Native or Bilingual
  • Highest level of education
    Bachelor

Job search preferences

  • Desired job type
    Full-time
    Interested in working remotely
  • Desired positions
    CTO
  • Desired work locations
    Taipei, Taiwan
    Taiwan Province, Taiwan
  • Freelance
    Part-time freelancer

Work Experience

VP of Engineering

May 2021 - Present
* Involve in key architectural decision * Standardize software development life cycle, operation, incident management and support * Lead team to build integration to third party systems * Responsible on recruiting top engineering talents * Govern high quality engineering practices

SVP of Engineering

Feb 2019 - May 2021
2 yrs 4 mos
• Served as head of engineering to lead the development of omni-channel strategy in Thailand and Italy stores. • Established engineering organisation and IT Policy. • Managed engineering practices in AWS Cloud infrastructure, security, data protection, site reliability, test automation and cost optimization. • Rolled out the first omni channel e-commerce solution for the largest retail in Bangkok, including Central Departmental Store, TOPS supermarket on both web and mobile. • Implemented marketplace with seller center, real-time stock for express store pickup, multi sourcing inventory for store level inventory, integration with THE-1 member card, the largest loyalty membership in Thailand. • Articulated large project solution design, including performance, resilience, security and operation. • Managed multiple teams for more than 150 employees and 50 external resources—developing mobile app, web frontend, digital commerce backend, catalog service, inventory, integration platform, finance management, warehouse management, data engineering, test automation, infrastructure, site reliability engineering and CRM—across offices in Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh and Budapest.

Senior Director Of Engineering

Jun 2008 - Feb 2018
9 yrs 9 mos
• Delivered technological imperatives aligned with product strategy on schedule, on budget. • Directed engineering best practices and software development lifecycle; governed uniform estimation process in multiple work streams. • Enforced operation excellence by adapting automation and collecting metrics to measure success. • Promoted talent management through well defining team goal settings, performance assessment and recognition policy. • Appointed as executive leadership in Taiwan office to provide smooth partnership across business and operation to enhance customer acquisition, conversion rate and retention by using SEO and behavior retargeting. • Recruited and grew talents in multiple development roles, including software engineer, architect, UX, QA, BA, product strategist and project manager. • Transformed legacy 3-month waterfall process into biweekly sprint by adapting agile methodology, including design thinking, scrum, test driven development and extreme programming; reinvented physical magnetic Kanban and standing stations for interaction in pairs. • Transformed behemoth monolithic e-commerce platform into micro-services with API interfaces based on domain boundaries, event sourcing and command query responsibility segregation pattern, resulting in minimized effort and maximized productivity upon changes. • Sponsored automation interest group to optimize QA process from 100% manual coverage to more than 60% automation by using scripting and Selenium WebDriver. • Defined production support process which handles incidents based on 3 priority levels, escalating from customer service to technical center and subject expert.

Enterprise Architect, Co-Founder

Jun 2006 - May 2008
2 yrs 0 mos
• Primed development on IoT data cloud, Machine to Machine network, Peer to Peer technology and Distributed Hash Table. • Developed platform to exchange control and status between wireless sensor network and Internet. • Deployed remote health monitoring system for senior citizen community association. • Exhibited remote health monitoring system in CTIA Wireless Conference 2006 in Los Angles, U.S.

Technical Manager

Jul 2004 - May 2008
3 yrs 11 mos
• Oversaw technology decision, including engineering principles, best practices and architecture design for enterprise integration projects in finance and manufacturing. • Headed Java Center of Excellence framework based on unified process and design pattern. • Worked on RFID solution and built PCB production management system for manufacturing. • Represented engineering to speak in JavaOne.

Java Consultant

Jan 2000 - Jan 2004
4 yrs 1 mo
• Developed large scale enterprise applications in telecom, health care and defense industries. • Launched Java Mobile AppStore service using Over-The-Air architecture for mobile carrier, one of the most prominent and cutting-edge enterprise mobile projects in Southeast Asia in 2001. • Developed authentication, authorization and profile synchronization for managing subscribers. • Implemented event notification system for WAP Push messaging, SMS, email, CDR and prepaid system.

3rd Sergeant Combat Medic Specialist

Feb 1996 - Jun 1998
2 yrs 5 mos
• Provided direct leadership to more than 20 military medics in battalion. • Supervised treatment, training and technical support • Acquired marksmanship, gold award in bridge innovation • Scored outstanding for conduct and performance

Education

Bachelor’s Degree
Computer Science
2000 - 2003