Teerapat Khunpech

Profile

  • An Engineering Leader with over 15 years of experience in managing cross-functional teams to deliver large-scale Data Platforms and sustainable AI/ML solutions that meet business objectives.
  • Shipped end-to-end data & ML platforms: real-time ingestion pipelines, orchestration systems, and ML infrastructure that became core business infrastructure for 3+ companies.
  • Technical leader who bridges data engineering, DevOps and ML — mentored 50+ engineers, drove platform standardization, and made architecture decisions that stuck across organizations.
  • Specialize in leading cross-functional teams to deliver complex technical solutions, with a primary focus on engineering excellence and driving business impact.

Experience

Digithun WorldWide Co., LTD.

Bangkok, TH

Data & AI Team Lead

OCT 2022 - Present

  • Orchestrated the strategic delivery of Generative AI and Agentic AI roadmaps, leading a 10-engineer team to transform business requirements into production-ready AI products (CDP, Semantic Search).
  • Architected Data Platform on Google BigQuery and Cloud Storage serving data products (CDP, Semantic Search).
  • Built real-time data pipelines (Strimzi Kafka, Spark Streaming) processing 25GB+ hourly for customer analytics platform.
  • Implemented Semantic Search powering Agentic AI for E-Commerce item discovery.
  • Designed and implemented MLOps platform on on-premise infrastructure for customer ML lifecycle management.
  • Enabled AI solutions for customers including Customer Agent, Shopping Agent, and Virtual Try-On Agent on Google Agent Development Kits (ADK).
  • Built internal LLM tools to empower team and reduce external LLM costs.
  • Established FinOps visibility in Looker Studio for data platform pipeline monitoring and usage analytics.
  • Architected and designed GCP security strategy for data access and service account management across platform.
  • Defined the prioritize high-leverage decision-making over hands-on implementation, focusing on system architecture, resource optimization, and the selection of technology stacks that deliver maximum ROI.
  • Management
  • Kubernetes
  • Cloud
  • Agile
  • Data Engineering
  • AI/ML
  • MLOps
  • LLM

QubitPlus Co., LTD.

Bangkok TH

Head of IT Infrastructure

Mar 2022 - OCT 2022

  • Designed and implemented cloud platform (GCP, Azure, AWS, Oracle Cloud) to match business requirements and security.
  • Enabled Kubernetes cluster with GitOps culture to deploy and deliver products to the customer
  • Build and maintained API Gateway by Kong API Gateway.
  • Led, architected and participated in the design, testing, and deployment of client/server, multitier applications, microservices, and related components.
  • Management
  • Python
  • Kubernetes
  • GitOps
  • Cloud
  • Agile

Head of AI/ML Engineering

Mar 2022 - OCT 2022

  • Led team of 3 engineers to build aiqube.co platform and in-house AI/ML products.
  • Shipped OCR technology adopted by 3 internal teams; launched external OCR API provider serving customer requests.
  • Designed data orchestration platform enabling ML pipeline automation.
  • Management
  • Python
  • Tensorflow
  • Keras
  • FastAPI
  • Airflow
  • Agile

Southern Green Distributor Co., LTD.

Bangkok, TH

Head of IT Infrastructure

Jan 2021 - Feb 2022

  • Maintained on-premise data center at 99.95% uptime; built development platform reducing infrastructure costs by 40%.
  • Implemented comprehensive application and infrastructure monitoring.
  • Management
  • Python
  • Kubernetes
  • VMWare

DevOps Engineer Manager

Jan 2021 - Feb 2022

  • Used Kubernetes and Jenkins to develop an in-house product that is highly available, scalable, and extensible.
  • Trained and mentored developers in DevOps methodologies and best practices.
  • Implement a next-generation platform with Kubernetes in Multi-Cloud to support business teams to scale their application fast and efficiently.
  • Implement a blockchain platform with Hyperledger Fabric on Kubernetes.
  • Management
  • Python
  • Kubernetes
  • Jenkins
  • CICD
  • Hyper Ledger
  • Blockchain

Gateway Service Co., LTD.

Bangkok, TH

Head of IT Operation

Nov 2019 - Dec 2020

  • Create and lead to build-up service incident flow based on the ITIL framework.
  • Management
  • ITIL
  • OpsEngine

Head of IT Infrastructure

Nov 2019 - Dec 2020

  • Directed the design and implementation of a resilient cloud ecosystem (GCP, Azure, AWS), aligning infrastructure capabilities with strict security compliance and high-growth business requirements.
  • Orchestrated the development of a highly available, extensible in-house product platform using Kubernetes and Jenkins, establishing a benchmark for system scalability and automated delivery.
  • Governed the transition to VMware vSphere 7 and vCloud, optimizing resource allocation for 50+ VMs to reduce hardware overhead and accelerate development cycles.
  • Spearheaded the adoption of an IaC culture, developing automated manifests to ensure reproducible, consistent, and error-free on-premise infrastructure environments.
  • Designed and managed a multi-site MPLS network and distributed computer systems across 5 branches, ensuring 99.9% connectivity and secure cross-branch data flow.
  • Architected a distributed API Gateway system using Kong, enhancing security and traffic management for enterprise-scale service communication.
  • Directed the deployment of HA Kubernetes clusters on-premise, empowering the engineering team with a robust environment for mission-critical development.
  • Management
  • Jenkins
  • CICD
  • Cisco
  • IBM
  • VMWare

Head of AI/ML Engineering

Nov 2019 - Dec 2020

  • Developed the Passport OCR application in python and deep learning that enhanced the automation approval processes.
  • Management
  • Python
  • Tensorflow

True Digital Group

Bangkok, TH

Data Scientist

Aug 2018 - Nov 2019

  • Designed and implemented an on-premise system infrastructure and Google Cloud Platform can work together.
  • Mentored teammates in the use of DevOps culture for team.
  • Developed the Recommendation System from user redeemed privilege history for TrueYou application.
  • Designed and implemented a Docker and OpenShift among development and deployment processes.
  • Developed the NEWS Feed item with user's personalised on TrueID application.
  • Deployed and operated Kubeflow for Machine Learning life cycle operation
  • Python
  • Tensorflow
  • Hadoop
  • Scala
  • Spark
  • Data Processing
  • Data Engineering

GPMobiz Co., LTD.

Bangkok, TH

System Engineer (Side Contract)

Oct 2015 - Dec 2015

  • Designed and implemented websites siamsport.com and siamdara.com with 99.9% uptime over the year.
  • Designs and implement a high concurrency infrastructure for production web server, including database multi MySQL Galera Cluster.
  • Improved the infrastructure monitoring system with Zabbix.
  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • Redis
  • Zabbix
  • Elasticsearch

True Corporation

Bangkok, TH

Senior System Analyst

May 2010 - Aug 2018

  • Designed and implemented a high concurrency web server.
  • Design and implemented, and optimized Database MySQL and Oracle.
  • Developed the web deployment tools.
  • Collaborated with multiple developer teams with in-deep technical knowledge (PHP, .Net).
  • Designed and implemented an E-Commerce website (itruemart.com).
  • Developed various monitoring scripts and alerting systems.
  • Operated Websphere, Web logic, Tomcat, and JBoss system to service the corporate system.
  • Designed and implemented a deployment system with Jenkins and Webistrano.
  • Designed and implemented Jenkins with the CICD method and combined with Docker technology.
  • Mentored 50+ engineers in git version control and DevOps best practices.
  • Led standardization efforts for deployment scripts/processes.
  • Designed and implemented BDD Testing with Cucumber script and integrate with Jenkins to automate website test.
  • Designed and developed OpenShift usage guidelines.
  • Designed and implemented Logs Centralize System with Fluentd, Apache Kafka, ElasticSearch, Kibana, and Grafana.
  • Led standardization efforts for Jenkins Pipeline with Kubernetes and OpenShift.
  • PHP
  • .NET
  • MySQL
  • Jenkins
  • Apache
  • Nginx
  • MySQL

Thailand Creative & Design Center

Bangkok, TH

System Engineer

Oct 2008 - Apr 2010

  • Built and maintained Web, DNS, AD, Mail, and Anti-virus server.
  • Designed and implemented infrastructure with Xen virtualized servers.
  • Maintained automated backup system.
  • Improved the infrastructure monitoring system with Zenoss.
  • Improved the database system (MySQL, Oracle) with high throughput and low latency.
  • Responsible for designing, implementing, and providing live video streaming on the website.
  • Provided desktop support for a heterogeneous network of Mac OS X, and Windows.
  • Improved wireless network system with wi-fi hotspot over an office building.
  • Microsoft
  • PHP
  • Apache
  • Network
  • Oracle

Education

MSc in Data Communication & Networking

2015 - 2017

King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok

BEng in Computer Engineering

2005 - 2008

Prince of Songkla University

Speakers

  • Docker and DevOps, SIPA Technology Meetup, 2016
  • Docker and DevOps Workshop, SIPA Technology, 2016
  • Special Instructor on class Data Engineering and Database Design, Faculty of Information Technology and Digital Innovation, King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok, 2017, 2018, 2021
  • Special Instructor on class Digital Technology for Business, Faculty of Information Technology and Digital Innovation, King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok, 2020, 2021
  • DevOps and Kubernetes workshop, Thai Beverage Company Limited, 2021

Awards

  • Best Paper Award for the entitled "An Auto-scaling Mechanism in Docker System" , The 13th National Conference on Computing and Information Technology, 2017
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Skills

    • Data Engineering
    • Google BigQuery
    • Apache Spark
    • Spark Streaming
    • Apache Airflow
    • Apache Kafka
    • DBT
    • Debezium
    • Airbyte
    • Kafka Strimzi
    • Data Lakehouse
    • Hadoop
      Generative AI & LLMs
    • LangChain
    • Langfuse
    • LangGraph
    • Google ADK, A2A
    • CrewAI
    • OpenCode
    • OpenClaw
      AI/ML
    • TensorFlow
    • Keras
    • Kubeflow
    • mlFlow
    • OpenCV
      Cloud Platforms
    • Google Cloud Platform
    • AWS
    • Microsoft Azure
    • Alibaba Cloud
    • Oracle Cloud
    • VMWare
      Container & Orchestration
    • Docker
    • Kubernetes
    • GitOps
    • OpenShift
      Programming & Scripting
    • Python
    • PySpark
    • SQL
    • Scala
    • Bash
      DevOps & Infrastructure
    • Terraform
    • Ansible
    • Jenkins
    • Gitlab CI/CD
    • GitHub Actions
    • Kong API Gateway
      Databases
    • PostgreSQL
    • MongoDB
    • Google BigQuery
    • Elasticsearch
    • MySQL Galera Cluster
      Monitoring & Visualization
    • Grafana
    • Power BI
    • Prometheus
    • ELK Stack
    • Fluentd
      Development Tools
    • Git
    • Docker
    • Hugo
    • Postman
    • Jira

Languages

  • Thai
    Native
  • English
    Professional

Interests

  • Startup
  • AI/ML
  • Esport
  • Musician
  • Brewing
  • Wakeboard