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Hein Soe

Full-Stack Software Engineer Β· AI Systems

Remote Β· Open to Relocation Β· hi@heinsoe.com Β· github.com/hheinsoee Β· linkedin.com/in/hheinsoee Β· www.heinsoe.com

Full-Stack Engineer, 7+ years in production SaaS and four shipped LLM applications β€” vector RAG, conversational memory, generative UI, and an edge LLM gateway. Owns the whole path: schema, API, deployment. Google CASA certified. Remote-first with Japanese and Singaporean teams; open to relocation.

Experience

meeeetup.com β€” Full-Stack Engineer | February 2026 – Present | Remote to Japan

MeeeetUp FaceID β€” B2B Face Recognition Service

  • Built versioned REST APIs (Hono on Bun) with auto-generated OpenAPI and real-time face identification (AWS Rekognition + MediaPipe) for partner integrations
  • Architected the multi-app monorepo and published the cross-platform face-capture SDK as three packages (core, web, React Native); shipped the browser PWA and a React Native Android client with a native frame processor

MeeeetUp Events β€” Event Booking & Coworking Platform (Frontend)

  • Built the host-side booking UI β€” configurable application forms, ticket sales and approvals, door check-in, and camera-based facial reception with liveness checks and QR fallback
  • Integrated Stripe checkout, per-event email customization with live preview, and an analytics dashboard with CSV export; shipped behind feature flags with Storybook, Vitest, and Playwright coverage

Giant More Co., Ltd. (ζ ͺεΌδΌšη€Ύγƒ’γ‚’) β€” Full-Stack Engineer | November 2024 – February 2026 | Remote to Japan

Space Navi β€” Rental Space Analytics SaaS (Solo Developer)

  • Architected multi-tenant REST APIs (Fastify/Node.js) and the PostgreSQL schema from the ground up; delivered 10–100x query gains through indexing and query optimization, with Stripe subscription billing
  • Earned Google CASA certification by passing a 54-question OWASP security assessment
  • Engineered an automated email parser (regex + AI fallback) as a Cloud Run Jobs batch microservice with 20-way concurrency β€” 100% parsing accuracy on 1,000+ emails per batch β€” and an AI Analytics Chat on Gemini with function calling, RAG-lite context and generative UI

Time Flow App β€” Workforce Management System

  • Designed the REST API and PostgreSQL schema for time tracking, leave and overtime, with RBAC, Web Push, Sentry, and Japanese Labor Law (εŠ΄εƒεŸΊζΊ–ζ³•) compliance logic

Brain Wave Data β€” Full-Stack Developer | October 2021 – November 2024 | Remote to Singapore

  • Maintained hospital management systems β€” resolved critical bugs in queue, visitor and patient-nurse workflows, and built the ClinicHub clinic frontend with appointment booking
  • Delivered the MEGA Music streaming landing page in 1 week under deadline, and the MEGA Network ISP site with an interactive SVG coverage map and API-driven pricing

Freelance (Client Work) β€” Web Developer | 2019 – Present | Remote

NaviGo β€” AI Career Navigator for Myanmar Youth (Client Project)

  • Built a Telegram bot career coach on Gemini tool calling that extracts user profiles from natural conversation
  • Designed a dual matching system: 3072-dim pgvector embeddings for semantic search plus 7 custom dimensions for instant recommendations with zero AI calls

Other client work

  • Delivered a bilingual e-commerce PWA (Ma Pont Bookshop), an NGO platform on Payload CMS (Community Initiative Network) and a multi-language news platform (The Akyab Post); earlier work was WordPress plugins, themes and organization websites
  • Run post-launch maintenance retainers covering hosting, monitoring and monthly reporting

Own Products

Sargalay β€” sargalay.com β€” AI API Gateway for Myanmar Developers (Founder Β· Solo Developer Β· live in production)

  • Engineered an edge-first proxy (Cloudflare Worker + Hono RPC) routing to 400+ AI models with real-time token-level billing
  • Built the SSE MMPay/MMQR payment flow with live confirmation β€” no USD card required β€” across a monorepo with shared Zod schemas and end-to-end typed RPC
  • Shipped one RAG tool-calling assistant across the site, Telegram, Messenger and Discord β€” grounded in the live model catalogue and policy set, with older turns compressed into a rolling summary β€” plus an MCP endpoint exposing the account to the user's own agent

Certifications

Google CASA (Cloud Application Security Assessment) β€” 54-question OWASP-based assessment, passed for Gmail API restricted scope on Space Navi Β· Node.js (2020) Β· Web Development (2018), Professional Training


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