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Kaung Htet

Systems, products, and the messy middle

I like working where product questions, technical systems, and production reality all meet, then turning that mess into software that holds up.

I build robust financial and platform systems that keep products reliable at scale. My work centers on turning ambiguous product requirements into production-safe software with strong operational discipline.

At Delivery Hero, I have driven engineering across Transactions, Wallet Experience, and Consumer Payments Integrations, shipping systems that prioritize correctness, reliability, and speed of delivery across markets.

I work across the full stack when needed, from backend architecture and distributed workflows to developer tooling and user-facing product surfaces. I care deeply about clean design, pragmatic execution, and long-term maintainability.

Outside core product work, I am especially interested in programming language paradigms, compilers, and PL theory, with a long-running bias toward functional programming ideas.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2020 — Present

Delivery Hero / foodpanda

Building and operating high-throughput platform and fintech systems across wallet, payment integration, and transactions domains.

  • Owned engineering delivery across Transactions, Wallet Experience, and Consumer Payments/Payment Integrations.
  • Built and operated services using Go, MySQL, Redis, SQS, SNS, Lambda, Temporal, and Terraform.
  • Partnered with product and cross-functional teams to ship high-impact capabilities with strong reliability guarantees.
Workstreams 4
Transactions Senior Software Engineer

Design and delivery of resilient transaction services with strong focus on correctness, observability, and operational safety.

  • Built production-safe transaction workflows for high-volume payment lifecycles.
  • Improved reliability and debugging velocity with stronger tracing, metrics, and alerting.
GoMySQLRedisSQSSNSDistributed Systems
Wallet Experience Senior Software Engineer

Built platform capabilities across wallet experience and payment integration flows while balancing speed and reliability.

  • Delivered wallet-facing backend services and integrations used across multiple markets.
  • Reduced operational friction by hardening edge cases and failure handling in money movement paths.
GoLambdaRedisPlatform Integrations
Consumer Payments Integrations Senior Software Engineer

Integrated and maintained consumer payment methods with a focus on correctness, rollout safety, and provider reliability.

  • Shipped payment method onboarding and operational tooling with strong reliability guardrails.
  • Partnered with product and regional teams to deliver payment capabilities with predictable operations.
GoPayments APIsSQSSNSTerraform
Platform and Developer Workflows Senior Software Engineer

Improved engineering workflows and platform surfaces to speed up shipping without compromising production safety.

  • Contributed to CI/CD and service-operability improvements across backend services.
  • Raised delivery consistency through better defaults for testing, observability, and release operations.
GoTypeScriptCI/CDObservability
Previous roles 4
Lead Software Engineer Mar 2019 — Aug 2020 Perx

Lead engineer and engineering manager for a team of 3-5 engineers on a consumer-facing operational product dashboard.

  • Led a team of engineers and owned features end-to-end from scoping through production.
  • Shipped core platform capabilities across analytics, workflow automation, campaign operations, and access control.
  • Stack: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Redux, Python, Metabase.
Full-stack Software Engineer Apr 2018 — Jan 2019 Pand.ai

Built administrative and internal tooling for chatbot products in a startup environment.

  • Built administrative tooling and internal web applications for chatbot operations.
  • Improved development workflow with CI automation, linting, testing, and coverage.
  • Stack: Python, Flask, MongoDB, React, Redux.
Software Engineer Jun 2016 — Feb 2018 ARTO

Built production applications across recommendation and data-driven product areas while sharpening end-to-end engineering fundamentals.

  • Contributed to recommendation and data-driven product experiences at ARTO.
  • Built web and platform tooling across Python/Django and JavaScript-heavy stacks.
Early Career Intern Roles Early Career Media Pop, Od-eon, PSA

Contributed across multiple internships and early roles, building practical foundations in shipping, debugging, and operating production systems.

  • Worked across product and internal platform tooling in startup and enterprise settings.
  • Developed a strong engineering foundation in delivery discipline and operational thinking.

Skills

Proficient Languages

GoJavaScriptTypeScriptPythonKotlinSolidity

Have Dabbled With

RustC++PrologCHaskellOCamlJava

Version Control

GitMercurialSVN

Interests

Programming language paradigmsCompilersProgramming language theoryFunctional programming

Education

National University of Singapore

Bachelor, Computer Science

Republic Polytechnic

Diploma with Merit in Information Technology