Jutipong Mahakunajeekarul
Lead Product Owner/Head Of Product Developemnt
Lardpraw
Summary
Senior / Lead / Principal Product Owner with 20+ years of experience delivering mission-critical fintech, payment, and remittance platforms in Thailand’s regulated environment. Senior individual contributor with end-to-end ownership of product strategy, discovery, and delivery across onboarding, KYC/KYB, payments, wallets, FX, and compliance. Trusted partner to executives, technology leaders, and regulators (BOT / AMLO), bridging business strategy with scalable product execution.
Overview
2026
2026
years of professional experience
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Work History
Lead Product Owner
LightNet (Thailand)
05.2021 - Current
Senior individual contributor owning product strategy and delivery for regulated fintech platforms, including cross-border remittance, payments, wallets, onboarding, and compliance.
Key Impact
- Owned end-to-end product delivery for cross-border remittance platforms in Thailand
- Lead product decisions across onboarding, KYC/KYB, payments, wallet, FX, and compliance domains
- Partnered closely with compliance teams to ensure BOT / AMLO regulatory alignment
- Acted as trusted product counterpart to senior management and technology leadership
- Governed product backlogs across multiple teams to ensure clarity, readiness, and value delivery
Outcomes
- Launched regulated cross-border remittance platform in Thailand
- Delivered KYC/KYB onboarding services for individual and corporate customers
- Built wallet and payment gateway platforms supporting domestic and cross-border use cases
QA Manager
LightNet (Thailand)
02.2019 - 05.2021
- Owned quality strategy and automation roadmap for fintech platforms
- Implemented automation testing and CI/CD support to reduce production risk
- Improved release stability and predictability across development cycles
IT Specialist / QA Manager
Ascend Group
04.2015 - 06.2018
- Led QA strategy and automation initiatives across large-scale e-commerce platforms
- Designed and implemented test frameworks, tools, and processes
Earlier Career
Thomson Reuters | G4S International | SAG
- Early career in software engineering and quality assurance across enterprise and financial systems.
Education
MBA - Business Administration And Management
04.2001 -
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
04.2001 -
Skills
Product Leadership
End-to-end product vision, roadmap, and backlog ownership
Complex prioritization and value trade-off decisions
Executive, compliance, and regulator-facing product ownership
Product discovery, refinement, and acceptance governance
Multi-team dependency management without people-manager dependency
Fintech & Business
Cross-border remittance & domestic payment platforms
Wallet services & payment gateways
KYC / KYB / AML onboarding flows
BOT / AMLO regulatory requirements
FX, settlement, and transaction lifecycle
E-commerce operations
Delivery & Ways of Working
Agile / Scrum / Scaled Agile
KPI, OKR & outcome-based delivery
API-first & platform product design
Quality-driven delivery mindset
Jira, Confluence, REST/API platforms, SQL (analytics usage), AWS (architecture understanding)
Timeline
Lead Product Owner - LightNet (Thailand)
05.2021 - Current
QA Manager - LightNet (Thailand)
02.2019 - 05.2021
IT Specialist / QA Manager - Ascend Group
04.2015 - 06.2018
Chulalongkorn University - MBA, Business Administration And Management
04.2001 -
King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology North Bangkok - Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
04.2001 -
Earlier Career - Thomson Reuters | G4S International | SAG