Chamnan So

“Chamnan is an exceptional engineer. When he came on board there were a number of projects in the backlog that we wanted him to work on. GoGrid is a face paced environment and we essentially gave him a trial by fire. He had to write a Pentoho (BI Framework) plugin to connect to our Zuora data and he had to design, implement, and test a new API for allowing all services access to features (Feature Access API). Cham excelled at both, at the same time. From then on I, and the team, knew we had hired an All-Star that could handle any of our technologies: Python, Django, Java, SQL, Hibernate, Spring, etc. In his two years at GoGrid he continued to impress me. He is great at taking a requirement from beginning to end: Discussions with the product manager, engineers, and qa always end with everyone understanding more about the end goal and what the best technology to use or implementation to take. Thanks to his leadership and coding skills it always came in on time with tests. This attention to detail and big picture thinking made him an asset to multiple products on the business services team. The business services team owns the online customer experience. Cham worked on everything except the corporate website, but he worked with that team to ensure that the look and feel of our registration process and customer portal were consistent. Most impressive is moving from backend API development to UI. Then, from UI and backends to Usage collection for the Billing and Usage Integration Platform, an extremely complicated synchronization process that must connect with every edge api and consolidate data and pushed to the billing platform. He can do it all. He is truly an impressive person who will be an asset to any engineering team either as a contributor or leader. Given the opportunity I would hire Cham again.”

“During my role as Technical Product Manager at GoGrid, I worked with Chamnan (Cham) on a daily basis for almost 2 years. He was a Sr. Engineer for the Business Services team and worked on a variety of business critical functions and products. Cham displayed an ability to apply himself across a range of engineering functions – UI, backend, frontend, and system configuration. He displayed a strong ability to comfortably work with green space (new development) as well as existing code. He finds issues/bugs quickly, is able to explain their affect(s), designs solid solutions and rapidly gets them fixed. At GoGrid he quickly asserted himself by working on implementing feature access controls. He assisted with design and developed a solution for a robust control of what we allow our customers to see and use. He developed into an expert on a number of different business functions shortly after that. As he fixed various billing issues, Cham was able to make large improvements on our years of technical debt. He also became our go-to employee for all frontend changes as he created user-friendly application solutions. Cham is always learning cutting edge technologies and languages. He is always trying to learn what the newest language offers, its advantages (and disadvantages), and how it can improve his products/systems. He strives to keep his skills up to date and relevant which results in his broad understanding of the “hot technologies” in use today. Cham brought a very cool, calm, and agreeable attitude to the team. He is an avid sports fan, loves to be a part of a team, and is a genuinely good guy. He is a great example that not all engineers suck. Despite being a great engineer he is fun, interesting, and has a great sense of humor. He is enjoyable to work with and is enthusiastic, optimistic, and he loves what he does. I strongly believe that Cham would be a welcome addition to any company that needs an engineer that is capable of doing just about anything asked of him. The word “capable” is insufficient in describing what he brings to the table. I would embrace any opportunity to work with Cham in the future and know that any company he works for will quickly realize what a great asset he is.”