Leading delivery in Thailand across data platforms, dashboards, APIs, and ML/AI products.
I’m Sam Upra.
Bangkok-based technical leader with deep experience across AI/ML engineering, backend systems, infrastructure, and data. I lead delivery at Amplify Health, spent years building digital platforms at McKinsey, and have co-founded two startups along the way. I like systems that behave predictably — clean interfaces, honest abstractions, and tools that stay out of the way.
M.S. Computer Science, Georgia Tech · B.S. Computer Science, Mahidol University · Based in Bangkok
AI engineering
My work sits where AI engineering meets production software: ML/AI product delivery, data platforms and APIs, backend services, cloud infrastructure, and technical leadership from use-case definition through architecture, delivery, and adoption.
Public work includes co-presenting Practical usage of Big Data and Machine Learning at Agoda and co-founding Salutat, an AI/NLP-driven fintech platform documented by MIT Solve.
Experience
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Project Leader & Business Development Consultant
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Co-founder & CTO
Built and ran engineering end-to-end for KOON, a cross-platform fintech micro-savings app.
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Technical Lead — Digital Specialist
Bank digitization, carbon-accounting SaaS, and hospital ecosystem builds across Southeast Asia.
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Senior Backend Engineer
Technical lead in fintech payments; drove migration from monolith to Go microservices.
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Staff Full-Stack Software Engineer
Partner-facing services and dashboards; led Kubernetes and monitoring adoption.
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Co-founder & CTO
Conversational CX fintech across Singapore, Dubai, and Bangkok. Exited via IP sale to Advans.
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Software Engineer
Streaming data systems and internal APIs at global travel-tech scale.
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Software Engineering Intern
Built an internal news-sharing platform.