Phirapon Thainukul

• Backend Engineering & Distributed Systems

  Designing backend architecture, REST APIs, microservices, gRPC and distributed systems, with attention to scalability, reliability, maintainability and performance.

  • Backend Architecture
  • Microservices
  • System Design
  • API Development

• Cloud Computing, DevOps & SRE

  Cloud-native applications, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD and observability, along with site reliability engineering practices that make systems more stable and efficient.

  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Cloud Infrastructure
  • Observability

• Cybersecurity & Application Security

  Securing APIs, network security, web application security and detecting abnormal behaviour with machine learning.

  • API Security
  • Threat Detection
  • Network Security
  • Security Monitoring

• Artificial Intelligence & Automation

  Large language models (LLMs), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), AI agents and local AI, especially building personal knowledge bases and automation that improves how work gets done.

  • LLM
  • RAG
  • Ollama
  • AI Agents
  • Workflow Automation

• Health, nutrition & fitness

  Nutrition, exercise and healthy living, including making educational health content through the Health 101 project.

• Creative design & digital content

  Cinematic imagery, photography, visual storytelling, and using generative AI to create images and social media content.

• Movies, tokusatsu & entertainment

  Superhero, science fiction and disaster films and series, plus tokusatsu such as Kamen Rider, Super Sentai and Ultraman.

• Lifelong learning & personal development

  Learning new things, building career skills, managing life, and making tools that help organise knowledge.

What drives me

1. 1. Never stop learning

   Knowledge has no end, and every experience can teach something, whether it is a success, a mistake or something I don't yet understand.

   Not knowing is not the problem. What matters is staying open to learning and trying to find the answer.

2. 2. Learn by doing

   I value experimenting and building things myself, because doing reveals the ideas, problems and limits that theory alone doesn't.

   Mistakes are part of learning, not the end of progress.

3. 3. Understand before solving

   Before solving a problem I try to understand its cause and context, whether it is technical or part of everyday life.

   A good solution is not always the fastest one, but the one that is appropriate and lasting.

4. 4. Progress over perfection

   I value steady progress, even small improvements each day.

   Starting, doing and improving gradually usually achieves more than waiting for everything to be perfect.

5. 5. Respect & collaboration

   I value listening to others and communicating directly and respectfully.

   Collaboration is more than dividing tasks. It is sharing knowledge, solving problems together and growing together.

6. 6. Responsibility & integrity

   Trust comes from actions more than words, so I take responsibility for my duties, the accuracy of information, and admitting mistakes.

   In software engineering especially, security, privacy and the impact on users should never be overlooked.

7. 7. Balance & well-being

   Career growth should go together with health, relationships and happiness in life.

   Success is measured by more than work output. It includes a life in which I can look after myself and the people who matter to me.

My personal philosophy

Keep learning, keep building, and keep becoming a better version of yourself.