Communication, relationship and thought process is the key in the career.
In the last couple of days, I was reflecting on my corporate life as an employee at TPGTelecom. I started in Oct 2019 as a senior engineer and I have been working on massive projects,
In Vodafone side of things:
Digital First project
- Cloud first Migration
- Vodafone integration broker
- Salesforce order throttle into Fusion/Siebel
- AngularJS to NextJS migration including Frontend Application
- Java to TypeScript and Serverless in the Backend
- CI/CD overhaul from Jenkins into GitHub Actions
Solutionising OmniScript checkout in Salesforce to NextJs
In-house express upgrade journey
MYOB to Braintree migration including token migration and user experience
Then in Felix mobile team:
DVS and GreenID for digital identity
PayPal integration
RTC R2 migration for Matrixx in provisioning layer
Felix Plan Refresh
Felix retail channel sales
Blackhawk Network integration
- OCSG (Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper) integration
- Felix reporting dashboard for retail sales (AWS Glue, AWS Athena, AWS QuickSight)
- Felix Activation Journey in Marketing Web and Mobile App
Gatsby to NextJS migration
- AWS Amplify
- Vercel
CloudFlare to F5 Cloud Migration
- DNS migration
- Load balancer, Bot detection
DevOps, DevSecOps initiative
- NewRelic and PagerDuty
- SLO, SLI and KPIs for production environment
Integration Broker layer for future AI and LLM
Set aside Engineering Excellence practices and vendor relationship and communication, SOW negotiation in collaboration with Legal team, Contract renewal and Operational and logistics efficiency for eSim, pSIM procurement and …
So putting all those into prospective I have achieved pretty damn much in my career in telco. So, looking into my perspective and talking to others in the last couple of days clearly showed me the respect I gathered, but still none of above can make you safe in the time of business restructuring.
I still don’t know what comes next in my bucket of challenges, and the future holds many uncertainties. Despite this, I have a laser focus on industries such as Telecom, Banking, Authentication and Authorization, and I am also dabbling a bit in the startup space. My interests are broad, and I am eager to explore various sectors. However, as someone with a corporate career, I firmly believe that continuous learning and building strong, meaningful relationships are the most valuable assets one can possess. These connections and the knowledge we gain along the way are what truly drive success and innovation in any field.
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