Kirit Sælensminde

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Kirit was born in 1970 CE in Norway, but grew up in London. He moved to Thailand on September 11th, 2001 and has been living there ever since. He is still a Norwegian citizen.

Kirit is a Software Engineer and specialises in software engineering methodologies, design and development; multi-paradigm software development techniques; teaching and mentoring.

As a founding organiser of BarCamp Bangkok and a founder of the first Thai hackerspace, Bangspace, Kirit is a well known and respected member of the Thai technical community.

Experience

Kirit has been programming computers since 1983 and started his first software company in 1985.

Kirit writes software in C++, JavaScript and SQL. He also uses Haskell from time to time and writes about Java, C#, LISP and a large number of other programming languages.

As well as being a skilled developer Kirit has built development, IT infrastructure and IT operational teams. He was an early adopter of Object Technology and what has come to be known as Agile development. He has closed software sales deals totally many millions of pounds and regularly consults on the use of IT to streamline business administration and operations for start ups and established companies alike.

Notable projects

In all of these projects Kirit was the main system architect and often a key implementer.

Telephone billing system for a telco based in Geneva. About 3 million calls per month. Pulled call data records from the Ericsson AXE10 switch. Performed all billing calculations. Generated and printed bills with individual bill presentation options.
Telephone billing system for a national UK telco. About 50 million calls per month. Aggregated call data records from several suppliers (including BT). Included interface for call centre and bill production.
Logistics billing system and cash-on-delivery tracking system for S.E. Asia's largest e-commerce company. More than 10 million billing events per day. Provided internal and external billing calculations together with billing for suppliers. Also handled cash-on-delivery tracking and settlement across their whole area of operations.
ERP and CRM for UK's largest outdoor fitness company. All instructor bookings, client fitness tracking and all billing and sales ledgers. Interfaced with the UK banking system to perform collections.
Intranet and research system for a Swiss private bank.
Mobile data collection and reporting for a UN based organisation. Survey design system and mobile app for use in the field (on and off-line) together with a visual programming language for data processing.

Head of Engineering at BiggestLab Co Ltd.

2020 — present

Head of Engineering at HotNow Co Ltd.

2018 — 2020

Partner at Proteus Technologies Co. Ltd.

2010 — 2018

CTO at FSL Technologies Ltd

2001 — 2008

Kirit has managed the development of the FOST.3™ application framework and it's new cross platform Fost 4 frameork. He has released Mahlee™ and sourcesafe2subversion, the Android game Missile intercept and various other projects.

He has overseen the complete transformation of business administration systems for several clients including established and start up businesses.

Guest lecturer at King Mongkut's Institute of Technology

2007 — 2008

Kirit taught the third year Systems analysis and design course and a second year programming course at the International school of King Mongkut's Institute of Technology's Faculty of Science in Ladkrabang (KMITL).

CTO at Felspar Ltd

1998 — 2001

Kirit managed all the developers (up to 35 people) and was responsible for developing the core framework and methodology used. He also performed pre-sales, sales and contract negotiation. He closed sales and negotiated contracts on projects worth several million pounds.

He was responsible for the design and building of several intranet portals and telephone billing systems.

Director at Motion Graphics Ltd

1992 — 1998

Kirit created software for digital video effects and video editing, he directed videos and created animation for TV advertising and idents (for ITV, MTV, Cartoon Network amongst others). He also managed the digital production (including web development) projects. He released one of the first Java games on the internet when Java was still in alpha release which was certainly the first multi-threaded Java internet game. In 1996 he helped to set up the first web design company in Thailand.

During this time he also taught object oriented software and design to independent contractors and companies like Ford, the BBC and GCHQ. He also taught C++ to the UK Ministry of Defence.