Agoda Engineering Highlights: May 2026 Issue

This month, we’re sharing how our engineers debugged millions of unbounded coroutines in a Kotlin service, alongside recent media coverage on Agoda’s AI strategy and technology hub in Bangkok. We’re also highlighting a relocation story, our Tech Camp Day initiative in Malaysia, and opportunities to join our engineering teams.

🚀 On the Blog

House of 1000 Coroutines: Debugging Unbounded Concurrency in Kotlin

Kotlin coroutines are designed to be lightweight and efficient, but when not properly managed, they can lead to unexpected system behavior. In this post, Agoda engineers share how a Kotlin service created millions of unbounded coroutines, resulting in spikes in CPU, memory, and thread usage.

The article walks through how the team investigated the issue, identified the root cause, and implemented fixes to prevent similar problems in the future, offering practical lessons on debugging and managing concurrency at scale.

👉 Read the full blog →

📰 Agoda in the News

Frontier Enterprise: Strategy Behind Agoda’s Bangkok Tech Hub

Frontier Enterprise covered the opening of Agoda’s new 26,000 square metre APAC tech hub in Bangkok, which brings together around 4,000 employees, including a large portion of its engineering team. The hub is designed to support collaboration, streamline operations, and enable teams to build and run large-scale systems more efficiently.

The article also highlights how Agoda operates at scale, processing large volumes of data and using internally built systems to manage infrastructure, monitoring, and operations, including the use of AI to support alert analysis and incident response.

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HardwareZone: How Agoda Is Rebuilding with AI from the Inside Out

In an interview with HardwareZone, Agoda CTO Idan Zalzberg shared how the company is applying an “inside-out” approach to AI, starting with internal tools to improve employee productivity before expanding to customer-facing features. Early efforts included integrating AI into Slack and building internal platforms used across the organisation.

The interview also highlights how AI is used across engineering and customer-facing systems, including AI-assisted coding, customer support improvements, and enhancements to the property page experience.

👉 Read the full article →

e27: What AI Agents Could Mean for the Future of Travel

e27 explored how the rise of AI agents could reshape how travelers search, plan, and book trips, and what this means for platforms like Agoda. The article highlights how user expectations are shifting toward more proactive, end-to-end travel assistance.

It also examines the challenges of AI adoption, including the gap between capability and execution, and how non-deterministic systems are changing how software is built and evaluated.

👉 Read the full article →

🧑💼 Life at Agoda — Relocation Story

From Bangladesh to Bangkok: Shahed’s Journey

Shahed Satter joined Agoda as a Software Engineer after previously working at the United Nations. After spending time working remotely in Bangladesh, he chose to return to Bangkok for its lifestyle and sense of community.

At Agoda, he works on the Fintech team, contributing to large-scale systems while collaborating closely with finance and product teams. Outside of work, he enjoys football, traveling, and exploring the city.

👉 Read Shahed’s full story →

🎓 Tech Camp Day — Community Impact

Supporting the Next Generation of Tech Talent

Agoda hosted the tenth edition of Tech Camp Day in Kuala Lumpur, bringing the program to UCSI University and INTI International College. Over two days, engineers shared practical AI use cases with more than 200 students, including participants from non-technical backgrounds.

In the same week, Agoda donated over 170 laptops to Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), helping expand access to digital tools for students from underprivileged backgrounds.

👉 Learn more about Tech Camp Day →

📣 From Our Teams

We’re Hiring: Join Agoda’s Engineering Team

Our Engineering Manager, Cédric Rochefolle, is hiring and sharing more about the scope, scale, and tech stack behind the teams at Agoda.

We welcome applications from around the world. For Bangkok-based roles, Agoda provides full relocation support for employees and their dependents.

👉 Explore roles and apply →

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