Nalinee Thongchai
Lead instructor. Previously reliability for a regional super-app. Teaches the flagship crash analytics programme and the Observatory critique nights.
About the studio
Devqueuegrid began in 2019 when three mobile reliability leads in Bangkok grew tired of conference talks that never opened a real crash group. We still teach from anonymised production data, still in English, still within walking distance of Surawong Plaza.
We exist so that crash and stability analytics become a shared language between engineering, product, and store operations. A crash feed that only engineers can decode will always lose to a launch date. Our job is to make the feed readable without sanding off the technical truth.
Every programme follows the same rhythm: a short briefing, a lab on a real export, a critique, then a one-page artefact you can take into your next release review. We refuse slide-only days. If a concept cannot be practised on a stack trace, a vitals chart, or a sampling config, it does not belong in the timetable.
Students work in pairs across companies when possible. A fintech Android lead reading a ride-hailing ANR is often more honest than a teammate who already knows the political story behind the bug.
Alumni stay on a quiet mailing list. We send a monthly desk note, not a newsletter of product launches. Twice a year we host an evening in the Bangkok studio for people who want to bring a thorny cluster. Attendance is optional and uncapped by “level.”
Most people arrive after a bad store week: a crash-free dip, a Play vitals warning, or a PM who has started screenshotting dashboards into Slack. Week one is diagnosis of how you currently read telemetry. Mid-programme you build a clustering rubric and a release gate. After the last session we ask for one production change within fourteen days — not a tool migration, a decision habit.
Thailand’s consumer apps often see traffic spikes around festivals and payday cycles that US-centric playbooks ignore. We keep those calendars on the wall. If your users are primarily in SEA, you will recognise the examples; if they are not, you will still recognise the method.
Faculty
Lead instructor. Previously reliability for a regional super-app. Teaches the flagship crash analytics programme and the Observatory critique nights.
iOS symbolication and clustering. Spent seven years owning crash pipelines before joining the studio full-time in 2023.