# Kamal Mahyuddin

> Kamal Fariz Mohamed Mahyuddin is a Malaysian software engineer and founding engineer at Envoy whose career runs from enterprise consulting and Kuala Lumpur's developer community to Viki during its Rakuten acquisition and more than a decade building workplace software in San Francisco. His public record is unusually product-led: an early billing prototype, open-source Ruby contributions, a coworking space, and four major Envoy launches by 2020.

- **Role:** Founding Engineer at Envoy
- **Organizations:** Envoy, Viki, Fluent Space, Bitfluent, ZoeCity (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd., RSB, Accenture
- **Nationality:** Malaysian
- **Education:** B.S., Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, Computer Science studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- **Known for:** Joined Envoy as its second engineering hire and was named as one of the four people assembled for its early visitor-management product., Contributed bug fixes and improvements to Rack, the modular Ruby web server interface., Led engineering at Viki during the period in which Rakuten acquired the global video-streaming company.

## Career timeline

- **2004-2007** — Worked as a consultant at Accenture.
- **2007-2008** — Worked as lead software developer at RSB.
- **2008-2009** — Served as engineering manager at ZoeCity (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd.
- **2009-2012** — Founded Bitfluent, a Ruby and Rails consulting company.
- **2011** — Was listed as a Rubyist and Fluent Space founder among invited developers at HITBSecConf Malaysia's HackWEEKDAY.
- **2011-2014** — Founded Fluent Space, a coworking space for creative professionals in Petaling Jaya.
- **2012-2014** — Served as director of engineering at Viki; Rakuten announced its acquisition of Viki in September 2013.
- **2012-2013** — Bitfluent was contracted to build the first version of Malaysian billing platform Billplz.
- **2014-present** — Joined Envoy as its second engineering hire and founding engineer.
- **2020** — Marked Envoy Rooms and its workplace platform as his fourth major product launch at the company.

## Achievements

- Joined Envoy as its second engineering hire and was named as one of the four people assembled for its early visitor-management product.
- Contributed bug fixes and improvements to Rack, the modular Ruby web server interface.
- Led engineering at Viki during the period in which Rakuten acquired the global video-streaming company.
- Through Bitfluent, built the first version of the Malaysian electronic billing platform Billplz.
- Participated in Malaysia's developer community as a BarCamp volunteer and invited HackWEEKDAY developer.
- Had worked on four major Envoy product launches by the February 2020 release of Envoy Rooms and the workplace platform.

## Latest updates

- **2020-02** — Shared Envoy's Rooms and workplace-platform launch, describing it as his fourth major product launch at the company.

## Links

- Website: http://bitfluent.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kamalfariz
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/kamal
- GitHub: https://github.com/kamal
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/kidchan

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Last updated: 2026-09-27