Arzumy MD
CTO at Fave Group
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Summary
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Top SchoolArzumy MD is a veteran CTO with over 17 years of experience building and scaling engineering teams and products across fintech, e-commerce, digital media and mobile communications in Southeast Asia. He has led technical integrations and migrations at scale—most notably unifying Groupon entities into Fave’s regional platform—and grown engineering organizations to 70+ engineers. A three-time exit operator (SAYS.com, GroupsMore, Fave) who pairs product-led strategy with pragmatic engineering, he focuses on payments and fintech disruption. Beyond day-to-day leadership he runs mentoring programs, speaks widely across SEA, and founded the Re-Engineering Malaysia movement to deepen local engineering talent. He also contributes to open source back-end work (notably enhancements to the Diaspora social network’s YouTube handling), reflecting hands-on developer roots. Based in Kuala Lumpur, he advises startups and payment platforms while championing sustainable startup ecosystems through community-led knowledge sharing.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Information Technology, Bachelor’s Degree Information Technology at Universiti Teknologi PETRONASSekolah Menengah Sultan Abdul Halim (SMSAH), Jitra, KedahMaGIC e@Stanford Program, MaGIC e@Stanford Program at Stanford University
English
Github Skills (7)
regular-expression10
rspec10
ruby-rails10
rails10
ruby10
social-graph9
social-networking9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
diaspora/diaspora
Apr 2011 - Jul 2011
A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Arzumy primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Diaspora social network. Their work involved modifying the `YoutubeTitles` module to support data anchors in regular expressions, enhancing the processing of multiple YouTube links within comments and posts, and adding a regular expression to the youtube_titles.rb file. They also added specs for the YOUTUBE_ID_REGEX and application_helper page_title. Furthermore, the user cleaned up application helper and application helper spec files.
social-networkprivacyrailsp2pprivacy-aware
arzumy/matchaa.com
Jul 2011 - Jan 2013
Contributions:40 commits in 1 year 5 months
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