Makara Sok
Technical Co-Founder, Software Architect, Product Manager, Ops Engineer, Full Stack Developer, Principal Software Engineer in Montreal, Canada
About
Hi 👋🏻 I'm Mak. People and companies usually hire me when they have a project that they need implemented fast and well. I have over 19 years of experience in tech and 3 succesful startups under my belt. I'll basically build your idea and let the market validate it, and if it all goes well, I'll help you build your team. If you already have something, I can come in and help make your processes more efficient.
This year's code contributions
Latest Commercial Projects & Contracts
2022 - Present
Startup that helps Bootstrapped SaaS get capital
Technology: Laravel, React, MySQL, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, DigitalOcean, tRPC, BigQuery, Metabase, Airflow
- Migrated from Laravel Forge to Docker + Kubernetes
- Implemented a real CI/CD with reproducible builds
- Implemented a proper secrets / config management system
- Implemented proper logging system
- Improve onboarding of new devs
- Implemented pipeline to BigQuery
- Implemented data querying dashboards
- Revamped Airflow infrastructure and DX
- Create a Google Workspace add-on
2022 - 2023
Micro-shops to connect Shops with Creators and drive it with SMS Campaigns
Technology: React, NextJS, NodeJS (Typescript), GraphQL, PostgresQL, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, Cloudflare, Google Cloud, Temporal.io, Twilio, Shopify, SalesForce CommerceCloud (SFCC), Retool
- Built the MVP from scratch mostly alone
- Onboarded the first clients, and tested the product-market-fit
- Interviewed and hired engineers
- Built a Shopify Storefront App and got approved
2022 - 2023
Apps and platform to level up your communication. Previously called XSplit Cloud
Technology: ffmpeg, React, NextJS, NodeJS (Typescript), GraphQL, MySQL, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, Cloudflare, Google Cloud
2021
Cloud drive for XSplit products
Technology: ffmpeg, React, NextJS, NodeJS (Typescript), GraphQL, MySQL, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, Cloudflare, Google Cloud
2020 - 2021
Web app for the Medical CPD industry (no longer active)
Technology: HLS Video Streaming, RTMP Live Stream, React, NextJS, NodeJS (typescript), GraphQL, Postgres, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, Vercel, Cloudflare, Google Cloud, AWS, Stripe.
Wiser has unfortunately been dissolved.
Mobile companion app for XSplit VCam, allows you to use your phone's camera as a webcam.
Responsibilities: API, Project Manager
Technology: NodeJS, MySQL, Android Java/Kotlin, Objective-C/Swift
2017 - 2020
Main website and API for XSplit. Averages 1M+ Monthly Uniques Visitor, 9M+ page views per day.
Technology: React, NodeJS, Kubernetes, Docker, Google Cloud, Vault, BigQuery, MySQL, Helm, Redis, Google Cloud Pubsub
MailTorch2018
Self hosted email distribution platform.
MailTorch has unfortunately been dissolved.
2018 - 2019
The most performant virtual green screen on the market.
Responsibilities: API, Machine Learning Pipeline
Technology: React, NodeJS, MySQL, Kubernetes, Google Cloud
2013 - 2017
A social network for Gamers. Backend is inspired by Facebook (Graph Database, GraphQL). Also includes a CEF-based Desktop App.
Technology: PHP, Laravel, React, NodeJS, MySQL, Redis, GraphQL, Docker, Kubernetes, Google Cloud
Player has unfortunately been dissolved.
Work Experience
2022 - 2025 @ Montreal, Canada
Principal Engineer for hire
2022 - 2025 @ Montreal, Canada
Head of Cloud Services, Architect
- Rebrand and separation from XSplit Cloud
- Migrations of services such as the CI/CD
2021 - 2022 @ Montreal, Canada
Principal Engineer, Architect
- Decreased the onboarding time of a new hire from 3 weeks to 2 days
- Implemented a 100% Typescript culture
- Overhauled CI/CD to be faster and easier to change
- Migration from an ExpressJS backend to GraphQL
- Architecture for new ecommerce backends to be plugged in an standard way
2017 - 2022 @ Metro Manila, Philippines & Montreal, Canada
VP of Software Engineering, Architect
- Responsible of everything web/server/cloud related, and implementation of modern standards and security practices
- Implemented the DevOps philosophy between all the teams in the company
- Awarded over 50k USD of bug bounties via HackerOne
- Migrated from AWS to GCP without downtime, and reducing the monthly bill by more than 50%
- Migrated from a monolithic PHP app to a more modern, secure and fast multi-services backend
- Increased the number of deployments per week from 1 to an average of 12
- Made frontend iterations 5x faster by implementing modern frameworks and practices
- Implemented the pipeline to automatically translate our apps in 9 languages
- Created and led the data science team, involving every teams to push data to BigQuery for KPIs
- Decreased the onboarding time of a new hire from 1 week to 1 day
- Increased yearly revenue using data-driven decisions
2013 - 2017 @ Koh Samui, Thailand & Metro Manila, Philippines
CTO, Technical Co-Founder, Architect
- Created a social network from scratch
- Grew it to 2M+ users
- Got acquired by Splitmedialabs Ltd.
- Scaled the team from 1 to 30
- Various Tech Companies
2006 - 2014 @ Canada
Freelancer, Frontend Dev, Backend Dev, Technical Advisor. In my early days, I did a lot of contracts for a lot of clients. Mostly simple frontend / ops work. A lot of wordpress, static sites, e-commerces.
Side Projects / Open Source
2025
Canada Spends is a tool to help Canadians understand how their tax dollars are spent.
2023
Awesome Karaoke at home. A small rewrite of MyntPlayer with karaoke in mind.
2019 - 2021
Easily start developing in monorepos with docker-compose2013 - 2021
Crowdsourced Music Player for bars powered by Youtube made for Mynt Bar in Thailand. This is my go-to project whenever I need to explore a new frontend framework. Github Link2019 - 2020
Easily perform table migrations in BigQuery2019 - 2020
A Google Cloud Pubsub client for node.js geared towards queues and jobs. Inspired by ceejbot/fivebeans2019
vault-tpl is a CLI application that replaces some tokens with secrets from Vault. You can use it to store secrets inside your repository and have them decrypted for development, for deployment or for any other reasons.