Teerapat Khunpech

Summary

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Head of IT Operation Nov 2019 - Dec 2020

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Technical 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

Education

King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok

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