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Chief Technology Officer

Grab, formerly GrabTaxi, is a technology company that offers wide range of ride-hailing and logistics services through its app in Southeast Asia, specifically in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines.

39 years of technical experience ranging from device-level machine programming, database and systems concurrency and performance, hardware control to high-level design and architecture responsibility for large development teams. 13 years executive management experience, from multiple engagements leading 150+ person business units of multinational companies to founding and running a startup. Revenue experience from $1M startups to $500M+ enterprises. Excellent communication and team skills, both written and verbal, including outward-facing presentation, technical and business vendor relationships, press and analyst presentations, and customer negotiations. Deep debugging and performance background, including code-profiling, contention and operating system internals, and operational tooling with particular focus and skill in the hardware-software interface layer. Skilled in patent creation and claims construction, including patent litigation, depositions and court testimony. Passionate and skilled at turn-around challenges, organizational development, leadership mentoring, succession management, and creating and maintaining remarkable teams.Specialties: AWS Cloud technologies, Systems performance, debugging and debugging tools, operating systems internals, hardware control interfaces and protocols, software communication protocols, MPEG and other digital video and digital audio standards, Oracle, MySQL tuning, MySQL deadlock detection and management, Linux profiling, management and monitoring.