VARUNYA THAVORNUN
Head of Data Engineering
"Nowadays, it’s the world of data-driven. The businesses who could adapt to this new data-driven challenge is the key of success"
Varunya is Head of Data Engineering at ABACUS digital, supporting a team to design, build, and maintain the pipelines and infrastructure that enable the collection, storage, and processing of large volumes of data from various sources, and prepare data for analysis and ensure it is accessible for data scientists and analysts. She is also responsible for developing loan decision engine and underwriting rules to automate the evaluation and decision-making process for loan applications.
Prior to joining ABACUS digital, Varunya worked at Agoda in the Data Platform team taking responsibilities in the real-time measurements collection and monitoring system which is a high-performance, distributed system for company wide metrics collection and analysis. Besides, she contributed in designing and developing local datacenters booking caching system which enhances the booking retrieval much faster globally supporting customer experiences and personal recommendation mining system.
Varunya holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from Chulalongkorn University, and also earns a scholarship from The Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Big Data Management and Analytics. The Erasmus Mundus Programme is Europe's biggest Master's scholarship program providing EU-funded scholarships for third-country students. The curriculum is jointly delivered by Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in Belgium, Université François Rabelais Tours (UFRT) in France and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in Spain.