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    "name": "Kris Newey",
    "label": "CPTO · Chief Product & Technology Officer",
    "summary": "A product-minded technologist and CPTO. For 20 years I have built platforms that turn technology into business value worldwide — cross-border e-commerce in Southeast Asia, Amazon-native consumer brands, AI-powered business messaging on Meta, and now AI product services, AI acceleration (e/acc) and cross-border AI compute at Chudaxi Inc. Clients and partners include NVIDIA, TikTok, IKEA, HSBC, Cisco, Shopify, SHEIN, ASUS, Maybank, Anker, miHoYo and Akulaku.",
    "email": "me@k-r-i-s.com",
    "url": "https://k-r-i-s.com/",
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  },
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    {
      "name": "Chudaxi Inc.",
      "url": "https://chudaxi.com/",
      "position": "Founder & CEO",
      "startDate": "2021-05",
      "summary": "Founded in May 2021; full-time since Jul 2026 — AI product services, AI acceleration (e/acc) and cross-border AI compute.",
      "highlights": [
        "Leads AI product services — helping companies design, build and ship AI-native products and agent-based workflows.",
        "Drives AI acceleration (e/acc): bringing the latest models and multi-agent workflows into client teams to compress time-to-value.",
        "Participates in and coordinates multiple cross-border AI compute services, connecting compute capacity with demand across countries."
      ],
      "x-fullTimeFrom": "2026-07"
    },
    {
      "name": "Sanuker Woztell Group",
      "url": "https://sanuker.com/",
      "position": "Co-founder, Sanuker GCR · Development Manager",
      "startDate": "2021-06",
      "endDate": "2026-06",
      "summary": "Official Meta Business Partner providing business messaging to global brands.",
      "highlights": [
        "Built [Woztell](https://woztell.com/), a conversational business platform that helps brands market and sell across global messaging channels — turning complex, flexible brand conversations into clear visual conversation flows.",
        "Moved the product to AI-first: integrated OpenAI and Llama models into Woztell, transforming scripted messaging into intelligent conversations; as a Meta partner, continuously optimized open-source Llama for client use cases.",
        "Delivered fast, effective AI conversation solutions for 1,600+ brands and 3,000+ business accounts — including IKEA, SHEIN, Anker, miHoYo and Akulaku — handling 120M+ conversations every month.",
        "Extended Meta-based conversation services to local businesses in Southeast Asia and Europe, and built an independent development team in Southeast Asia for customized client work."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Heywind Inc.",
      "position": "CTO & Co-founder",
      "startDate": "2015-03",
      "endDate": "2021-03",
      "summary": "Consumer-brand startup building eyewear brands for global e-commerce.",
      "highlights": [
        "Built a complete eyewear portfolio from scratch as technical co-founder — [TIJN](https://tijneyewear.com/), [TIJN Home](https://tijnhome.com/) and [Miraga](https://miraga.com/).",
        "Applied cloud computing and advertising-analytics algorithms, steadily lifting brand ROI well above the category average.",
        "Digitized and automated Amazon operations end-to-end through Amazon's retail APIs, letting a small, tech-led team run what would normally take a far larger operations staff.",
        "Built a highly automated multi-channel network (MCN) platform connecting brand traffic with KOL / influencer channels across the full journey: awareness → conversion → repeat purchase."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Ezbuy.com",
      "url": "https://ezbuy.sg/",
      "position": "Chief Architect · Platform Technology Lead",
      "startDate": "2012-03",
      "endDate": "2015-02",
      "summary": "Cross-border shopping platform, formerly [65daigou.com](https://65daigou.com/), bringing overseas products to customers across Southeast Asia.",
      "highlights": [
        "Owned web, database, DevOps and mobile-app engineering end-to-end.",
        "Architected the entire front-end and back-end platform from scratch, adapting it for each Southeast Asian market.",
        "Launched the mobile app, helping make [Ezbuy.com](https://ezbuy.sg/) the preferred cross-border shopping platform for Southeast Asian customers.",
        "Set the technical architecture and stack for the whole engineering team, laying the foundation for Ezbuy to join Southeast Asia's top tier of e-commerce platforms."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Suryani Inc.",
      "position": "Senior Software Engineer & Manager",
      "startDate": "2010-05",
      "endDate": "2012-03",
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      "highlights": [
        "Led the WMS team building warehouse management systems for top e-commerce sites such as Diapers.com and Soap.com; Suryani was later acquired by Amazon.com."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Dell Inc. (CCC, China Region)",
      "url": "https://dell.com/",
      "position": "Senior Development Engineer, IT/CFI Team",
      "startDate": "2008-06",
      "endDate": "2010-05",
      "x-earlier": true,
      "highlights": [
        "Built customization-service processes and systems for the Asia-Pacific region and optimized production-line automation."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Ctrip.com (Trip.com)",
      "url": "https://ctrip.com/",
      "position": "Senior Development Engineer, Domestic Flights",
      "startDate": "2006-05",
      "endDate": "2008-06",
      "x-earlier": true,
      "highlights": [
        "Led a team of engineers upgrading the domestic flight booking system to a modern architecture and optimizing online ticketing logic."
      ]
    }
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    {
      "name": "AI Forge (Chudaxi)",
      "description": "Chudaxi's AI product studio: multi-agent workflows that design, build and ship AI-native products for clients quickly.",
      "highlights": [],
      "roles": [
        "Founder",
        "Product & technology lead"
      ],
      "startDate": "2024"
    },
    {
      "name": "Woztell",
      "url": "https://woztell.com/",
      "description": "Conversational business platform on Meta messaging, now AI-first (OpenAI, Llama).",
      "highlights": [
        "1,600+ brands · 3,000+ business accounts · 120M+ conversations per month.",
        "Used by global brands including IKEA, SHEIN, Anker, miHoYo and Akulaku."
      ],
      "roles": [
        "Co-founder, Sanuker GCR",
        "Product & technology lead"
      ],
      "startDate": "2021-06",
      "endDate": "2026-06"
    },
    {
      "name": "Sanuker AI Business Operator",
      "description": "AI business-operations agent built on Woztell: automates brands' customer conversations, marketing and sales flows on WhatsApp and other Meta channels.",
      "highlights": [],
      "roles": [
        "Product & technology lead"
      ],
      "startDate": "2024",
      "endDate": "2026-06"
    },
    {
      "name": "TIJN · TIJN Home · Miraga",
      "url": "https://tijneyewear.com/",
      "description": "Eyewear brands built from zero for Amazon and global D2C.",
      "highlights": [
        "Multi-brand, multi-market portfolio."
      ],
      "roles": [
        "CTO & Co-founder"
      ],
      "startDate": "2015-03",
      "endDate": "2021-03"
    },
    {
      "name": "Heywind ERP",
      "description": "In-house ERP connecting Amazon orders, inventory, advertising and supply-chain data — running multi-brand, multi-marketplace operations for TIJN, TIJN Home and Miraga.",
      "highlights": [],
      "roles": [
        "CTO",
        "Architecture & engineering lead"
      ],
      "startDate": "2015-03",
      "endDate": "2021-03"
    },
    {
      "name": "Ezbuy platform & mobile app",
      "url": "https://ezbuy.sg/",
      "description": "Cross-border shopping platform for Southeast Asia — web, database, DevOps and mobile app architected from scratch.",
      "highlights": [
        "Served shoppers in multiple countries on web and mobile."
      ],
      "roles": [
        "Chief Architect",
        "Platform Technology Lead"
      ],
      "startDate": "2012-03",
      "endDate": "2015-02"
    }
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    {
      "institution": "Project 211 university, China",
      "area": "Software Engineering",
      "studyType": "Bachelor's degree",
      "startDate": "2002-09",
      "endDate": "2006-06",
      "courses": [
        "Software Engineering",
        "Data Structures and Algorithms",
        "Software Design and Architecture",
        "Database Systems",
        "Web Development",
        "Mobile Development",
        "Machine Learning"
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        "OpenAI API",
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        "Cross-border e-commerce",
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        "title": "Ship, then sharpen",
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