Dewi Liyana Ahmad

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Engineering Manager at SoftBank · Search and ranking · Python, Scala

SoftBank
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia · MYT (UTC+8)
8+ years experience
INSEAD Singapore
English, Malay
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Overview

I lead search and ranking at SoftBank in Kuala Lumpur. Shipped 22 launches on the search team without a rollback. Most at home with Elasticsearch and A/B testing.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Questions about search and ranking
  • Working sessions on Python
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Skills
PythonA/B testingScalaJavaElasticsearch

Experience

  1. Engineering Manager
    Jun 2024 - Present
    SoftBank · 2 yr 4 mo · Contract · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    • Reduced cloud spend on search by 35% in two quarters.
    • Wrote the Python service that now handles 33 million requests a day.
    • Mentored 6 engineers through their first promotion.
  2. Senior Software Engineer
    Sep 2022 - Apr 2024
    Lenovo · 1 yr 7 mo · Contract · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    • Mentored 6 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Built the experimentation framework 25 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  3. Software Engineer
    Jul 2019 - Sep 2022
    Boston Consulting Group · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    • Shipped 11 launches on the search team without a rollback.
  4. Software Engineer
    Oct 2018 - Jul 2019
    Foxconn · 9 mo · Full-time · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 19 minutes to under 3.

Projects

Side project: a reading list app
2025

Built with Java and A/B testing. 1254 people used it last year.

Open-source Scala toolkit
2023

A small library for search and ranking that 356 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

  1. INSEAD Singapore
    MBA, Business Administration
    2018 - 2020
  2. Seoul National University
    BS, Information Technology
    2013 - 2017

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