MOHIT SHRIVASTAVAtechnology leader · builder · operatormohit@portfolio ~/career↓ download-cvI'm a hands-on technology leader with 19+ years across seven-plus industries — today Head of Technology at Free Malaysia Today, where I own the platform behind 8.5M+ readers. I lead teams and talk to the business, and I'm still the one who can debug the cache layer at 3 AM.
My value is the range between altitudes. I lead engineering teams, set platform direction, manage vendors and brief business and editorial stakeholders — and I stay close enough to the code to review a GraphQL contract, profile a slow query, or decide between SSR and ISR based on what the CPU is actually doing during a spike. I don't hand the hard parts to someone else.
That range was earned across media, aviation, banking, logistics, insurance, identity, IoT and founder-led products. I've delivered operational systems for Changi Airport, banking experiences on Thailand's national e-wallet, identity and biometric modernization at IRIS, and warehouse-system performance work at Kerry Logistics — then took ownership of a national news platform operating at millions of users.
The throughline isn't a single stack; it's a way of working. I walk into systems under pressure, find the technical cause behind a business symptom, and fix it without taking the business offline. I'd rather delete a service than add one, profile than guess, and ship the dependable system over the clever one — because the dependable one is still standing when the story breaks.
Built production systems early — transport-office licensing, GIS land-records for Kerala and Karnataka, payment-gateway and Salesforce CRM integrations. The decade that taught me to solve the business problem, not just write the code.
Seven years architecting an IoT/M2M middleware platform — MQTT messaging and smart-object connectors making devices, services and business systems interoperate. Where I learned to own a platform over the long haul and mentor a team.
Re-architected a legacy warehouse-management system at Kerry Logistics (20× faster after the rework), then modernized identity, biometric and insurance systems at IRIS — roughly 80% faster APIs.
Led delivery for marquee clients — Changi Airport (operational visibility), Krungthai Bank (Thailand's national e-wallet), and immersive launches for BMW, Nike, Netflix and Telekom Malaysia through Accenture Song.
Head of Technology for a national news platform at 8.5M+ users — owning website, CMS, edge, video and reliability, growing the audience while cutting infrastructure cost ~75%.
After years owning platforms end to end, I'm looking for senior technology leadership — Head of Technology, VP Engineering or a hands-on CTO role — in Kuala Lumpur or remote, somewhere the platform genuinely matters to the business.