Kakada Chheang
Chief Technology Officer at Kawsang
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
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Top SchoolKakada Chheang is a technology leader and Chief Technology Officer based in Phnom Penh with 14 years of experience building and shipping software for public health, disaster response, and tech startups. He progressed through technical and management roles at InSTEDD iLab Southeast Asia, moving from developer to Technical Project Manager, and now leads technology strategy and delivery at Kawsang. Kakada blends hands-on engineering with product-focused project management, driving cloud deployments, CI/CD, and cross-functional collaboration to improve software quality and team productivity. He has experience facilitating regional tech workshops and hackathons, translating human-centered design into low-cost SMS/IVR and participatory surveillance solutions. Outside formal roles, he mentors teams on applying third-party technologies and pragmatic architectures to accelerate impact in disease and disaster contexts. His background in computer science plus deep regional experience gives him a rare mix of technical depth and real-world public-good focus.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science and Software Engineer, Bachelor, Computer Science and Software Engineer at RUPP
English
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Github Skills (22)
android-app9
medium9
mobile-application8
user-authentication8
alexa-skills-kit8
portal8
bots7
react6
voice6
react-native6
scalable5
android4
speech-recognition4
authentication4
grafana3
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
kakada/react_native_baseline
Aug 2022 - Aug 2025
a mobile application baseline develop on React Native
Contributions:6 reviews, 9 PRs, 8 pushes in 3 years 1 month
react-nativereactandroidmobile-application
kawsangs/adolescents_web
Aug 2022 - May 2025
Web-app backend for the adolescents and youth-friendly mobile app
Contributions:214 reviews, 201 PRs, 203 pushes in 2 years 9 months
app-backendmobile-appbackendyouthmobile-friendly
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