Manussanun Buranachokphaisan

Independent Data & AI Consultant · Bangkok, Thailand

Over a decade of experience in data platform engineering, AI system design, and technical leadership across fintech and e-commerce companies

Skills & Tools

Cloud & Infra
GCPAWSTerraformDockerKubernetesVertex AIDatabricks
Data Engineering
Apache SparkAirflowKafkaApache IcebergTrinoDataHub
AI / ML
LangGraphGoogle ADKLLM APIsscikit-learn
Languages
PythonSQLGo
Practices
Medallion ArchitectureData LakehouseCDCMLOpsData GovernanceAgile / Scrum

Work Experience

Investic Analytics Studio

Bangkok, Thailand

Feb 2025 – Present
Independent Data & AI ConsultantFeb 2025 – Present
  • Led end-to-end data and AI delivery across multiple client engagements in healthcare, fintech, and e-learning sectors.
  • AI-powered Social Intelligence Platform (SET-listed client): built multi-source ingestion covering 8+ platforms, architected GCP infrastructure with Terraform, and developed a FastAPI LLM microservice with 13 LangGraph agents.
  • Multi-Agent AI Content Generation Platform (E-learning client): redesigned a legacy single-agent system into a production AI system on Google ADK using 8+ orchestrated sub-agents deployed on Vertex AI Agent Engines.
  • Optimized GCP cloud costs through infrastructure rightsizing and refactored single-agent implementations into unified agentic workflows.

Thoughtworks

Bangkok, Thailand

Apr 2024 – Oct 2024
Lead Data ConsultantApr 2024 – Oct 2024
  • Supported pre-sales for government and finance clients by scoping requirements, designing technical solutions, and writing proposals.
  • Built a PoC and demo for a modern data platform on Databricks.
  • Conducted gap analysis, technical scoping, and risk assessment for data platform migration.

NocNoc

Bangkok, Thailand

Jan 2023 – Mar 2024
Director of Data EngineeringJan 2023 – Mar 2024
  • Grew the Data Engineering team from 2 to 7 engineers through hiring and onboarding.
  • Replaced a non-scalable pipeline system with a fully redesigned Data Lakehouse on AWS (Apache Iceberg, S3, EMR with Spark + Trino, Glue catalog, EKS).
  • Managed AWS infrastructure as code with Terraform, enabling automated deployments.
  • Designed and built an in-house Spark ETL framework using Medallion Architecture with Airflow.
  • Redesigned data models and standardized formats across the warehouse, resolving critical data quality issues.
  • Implemented a DataHub data catalog, enabling self-serve data discovery for business users.

LINE MAN Wongnai

Bangkok, Thailand

Sep 2020 – Dec 2022

Led an 11-person Data Platform & Engineering team, responsible for building a scalable data platform and delivering high-quality data to support fast business decisions.

Data Engineering ManagerAug 2021 – Dec 2022
  • Managed platform budget and led cost optimization, re-architecting data pipelines and reducing AWS costs by 30%.
  • Pioneered data observability at LINE MAN Wongnai by introducing DataHub for metadata, lineage, and catalog management.
  • Partnered with the data protection team to establish org-wide data governance.
Senior Data EngineerSep 2020 – Jul 2021
  • Built batch data pipelines using the in-house ETL framework on Airflow.
  • Built streaming pipelines with CDC, Kafka, and Spark Streaming for real-time analytics.
  • Developed backend services for data products and ML applications using Python and Go.
  • Set up monitoring and alerting for services and pipelines using Grafana and Sentry.

FINNOMENA

Bangkok, Thailand

Jul 2017 – Jul 2020

Led a team of data analysts, scientists, and engineers to build a data-driven culture using large-scale data.

Head of DataJan 2019 – Jul 2020
  • Built and deployed production ML models — customer segmentation, channel engagement, lead scoring, asset prediction, and recommendations.
  • Migrated ad-hoc SQL batch pipelines to Spark on GCP Dataproc, building a scalable data platform.
  • Built data inventory, catalog, and classification framework; established governance practices for PDPA compliance.
Lead Data ScientistApr 2018 – Dec 2018
  • Built a content recommendation system that doubled click-through rate and conversion.
  • Launched a LINE chatbot serving live users with fund and stock information using Dialogflow.
Data ScientistJul 2017 – Mar 2018
  • Built dashboards for KPIs, social media, content, and marketing funnels.
  • Applied data mining techniques to extract actionable insights that doubled the number of sales leads.

NEC Corporation

Tokyo, Japan

Apr 2015 – Mar 2017
ResearcherApr 2015 – Mar 2017
  • Analyzed customer problems using statistical analysis on large time-series datasets.
  • Developed predictive power and temperature models for air-conditioning systems using ML.
  • Designed energy management systems for buildings and data centers, achieving up to 15% energy reduction in simulation.
  • Filed a patent application for the associated invention.

Education

The University of Tokyo

Japan

Master of Science (M.S.), Information Science and Technology

GPA 3.81 · 2013–2015

Chulalongkorn University

Thailand

Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electrical Engineering

GPA 3.96 · 2008–2012 · First Class Honors with Gold Medal

Certifications

  • Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate
  • Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional
  • Professional Data Engineer (Google Cloud)
  • Passed Level I of the CFA Program

Languages

  • Thai (Native)
  • English (TOEIC: 910)
  • Japanese (JLPT N2)

Honors & Awards

  • Japanese Government Scholarship (MEXT Scholarship) (2012–2015)
  • First Class Honors with Gold Medal in Electrical Engineering (2012)