Hello! I'm Zi Shen
A Software Solutions Expert with many years of experience in software and telecommunications industries. I have a clear, logical mind with a practical approach to problem solving and a drive to see things through to completion. With many good platforms and opportunities provided over the years, I am now a Chief Technology Officer who look like a Chief Talking/Travelling Officer. :)


Hong Zi Shen
方棨彦
Software Solutions Expert
Email:
zi_shen#hotmail.com (#=@)
Address:
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
First Job Since:
September, 2003
EXPERIENCE
2022 Sep - Present
Chief Technology Officer
ARB BERHAD (BURSA:ARBB)
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Oversee the development and dissemination of technology for partners, subsidiaries, customers, and vendors to help improve and increase business. We transit traditional industries and solutions to a world of cloud-hosted deployments.
2021 Mar - 2022 Aug
Technical Advisor
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As the CEO of ARB Axflix (joint venture of ARB and Axflix), I worked closely with ARB Berhad and its affiliates to drive industry-leading technologies into the market.
2023 Apr - Present
Chief Technology Officer
ARB IOT GROUP LIMITED (NASDAQ:ARBB)
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Focus on delivering company solutions at a rapid cadence while enhancing core product capabilities. Transit traditional industry and solution to a world of cloud-hosted deployments.
2018 Aug - Present
Chief Technology Officer
AXFLIX
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Axflix is a group of companies with different stakeholders and partners focusing on providing IT and software solutions for different industries. As a co-founder, I manage the companies and the partners, work with different stakeholders and co-workers on business expansion, partnerships, sales, operations, solutions development, etc.
2020 Nov - Present
Technical Director
BJAK
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In charge of the organization’s technological needs as well as R&D.
2020 Nov - Present
Managing Director
AXCOVA
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Provide Blockchain and Crypto Currency services including IT & trading services.
2019 Apr - Present
Technical Advisor
ATTRELOGIX
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As a shareholder, I provide technical consultation, establish, and expand the business to ensure the investors and the employees achieving their greatest height in career, as well as ensuring the clients and the users are satisfied.
2017 Jun - 2019 Mar
Chief Technology Officer
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Created the cloud Wi-Fi solution with Django and PostgreSQL running on Kubernetes framework. Together with strong partners, we had won and delivered many IT projects awarded by well-known entities including government-linked companies, banks, and universities.
2017 Mar - 2017 Jun
Software Architect
TROVICOR
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As the first hired in Malaysia, provided the technical and hiring consultation to the management in setting up a local engineering team to transit the entire Lawful Interception Suite from the engineering department in Croatia to Malaysia.
2013 Jan - 2017 Feb
Advanced Engineer
OPENET
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Joined the CTO Lab for R&D on Big Data, Machine Learning and SDN subjects. Delivered a few prototypes and POC solutions that used Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Hortonwork, OpenStack, OpenDaylight and OpenFlow.
2010 Jun - 2012 Dec
Senior Software Engineer
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Worked on change requests and fixed bugs. Became the Diameter Subject Matter Expert in solving AAA and Diameter software related puzzles. Maintained and enhanced several components written in C++ and Java including the core framework that used by the PCRF solutions and the other products.
2009 Jan - 2010 Jun
Lead Engineer
ACCURIS NETWORKS
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Led a 5 men team in supporting and enhancing the Diameter AAA Software. Assisted the other teams in doing change requests and bug fixes for various Telco solutions.
2007 May - 2008 Dec
Senior Software Engineer
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As the first hired in Malaysia, assisted Dublin HQ in forming a local engineering team to maintain and enhance the Diameter AAA software written in C and C++.
2006 Feb - 2007 Apr
Senior Software Engineer
COMVERSE
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Customized the IVR system workflow in Java for different customers around the world.
2005 Jan - 2006 Feb
Senior Software Engineer
TELOGIC
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Programmed the backend libraries such as message queue, networking, thread pool, thread safe object, SS7, SMPP protocol and all sort of algorithms written in C and C++ for Telco voice and messaging solutions.
2003 Sep - 2004 Dec
Software Engineer
UNIFIEDCOMMS
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Programmed the SS7 components written in C and C++ for Telco voice and messaging solutions.
EDUCATION
2021-2022
Master of Data Science (Computer Science & IT)
UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Grade: 1st Class
2001-2003
Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Science)
TSINIG HUA UNIVERSITY
Beijing, China
1999-2000
Diploma of Information Technology
NEW ERA COLLEGE
Selangor, Malaysia
2000 - Top Student Award
1999/2000 - President of Information Technology Society
1993-1998
TSUN JIN HIGH SCHOOL
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
1998 - Top Student Award
1998 - Vice President of Union of Graduate Student
1997/1998 - President of Current Affairs Society
1997/1998 - Vice President of Prefect Board
SOFTWARE SKILLS

Python, Django, React Native, Java, C, C++, Shell Script
GCP, AWS, Azure, Alibaba Cloud, Huawei Cloud
Networking, TCP/IP, SSL/TLS, IPSec, Wireshark
CentOS, RedHat, Ubuntu, Windows
Git, GitLab, Github, Subversion, Bitbucket, Confluence, Jira, Jenkins
Kubernetes, Vagrant, Puppet, Docker, Pacemaker
PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL, InfluxDB
Apache, NGINX, uWSGI
TECHNOLOGIES

Hadoop, HDFS, Yarn, Zookeeper, Spark, Kafka
Diameter, PCEF, PCRF (TS 23.203, TS 29.212, TS 32.240, TS 32.296, TS 32.299, RFC 6733, RFC 4006)
RADIUS (RFC 3865, RFC 3866), FreeRADIUS
NFV, SDN, OpenDaylight, Openstack, HPOO
SS7 including MTP (ITU Q.703, Q.704), SCCP (ITU Q.713), ISUP (ITU Q.763), TUP (ITU Q.723), TCAP (ITU Q.773)
SMPP, USSD, SMS, MMS