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A hands-on technology executive with proven track record in designing and engineering multi-tier software systems and leading teams of developers for api, web and mobile applications development. I build and grow lean teams using agile software development methodologies. 18+ years of experience leading teams that successfully designed, developed, launched and operated on high-volume and high-traffic systems. Since 2012, I've been working with startups working on e-commerce, on-demand, social media, data science and fintech products and innovations. An astute, adaptive and entrepreneurial technologist passionate about product development.
Added Capabilities in the last 12 months:
- Blockchain and Cryptocurrency
- Development and Implementation of ERC20 Token / Smart Contracts (Ethereum)
- Cryptocurrency Mining
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- Consulting on Technology Strategy, Software Development, IT Governance and Cybersecurity - Product Development and R&D for Internal Products - Grow the Asia Pacific Business - Support US and Europe Operations - New Business
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Imfree, Inc. Oct 2016 to Dec 2017 · 1 yr 3 mos NCR - National Capital Region, PhilippinesCTO-
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- Tech strategy - Design and implementation of engineering and operations framework - Product strategy and development, hands-on participation - Sourcing - Resource management
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IntroMe Jun 2014 to Sep 2016 · 2 yrs 4 mos San Francisco Bay AreaSr Director of Engineering
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The company is a Silicon Valley start-up which developed an e-commerce and classifieds mobile application that pivoted to a GPS-driven social media platform for Android and iOS. - Established a hybrid approach to agile software development using Kanban and Scrum which enabled weekly delivery cycles. - Established practice of continuous integration by using three strategies - decoupled but closely integrated teams, practice of lean start-up and automation. This enabled the technology to be able to cope with multiple business pivots from generic, to social, to niched social. - Design, development and release of both an iOS and Android mobile platform and standardization of its delivery. - Established DevOps practices to involve QA and systems administration to product development as early as possible resulting in a well-defined but flexible support call-tree. - Development and deployment of a scalable RESTful/JSON backend API which includes real-time messaging using XMPP, distributed parallel background services using RabbitMQ/Redis/Celery, robust search engine using ElasticSearch/Lucene with MongoDB and MySQL databases written in Python. - Responsible for overall management of a development team size of 35 people in the Philippines and 3 in India at peak of development. - Responsible for local office management that involved development and implementation of internal processes and company policies. Skills: - Backend design, development and operations for highly scalable platforms using HTTP/REST/RESTful and real-time persistent connections (socket/websocket/webrtc) - iOS/Android/Hybrid (iOS) design, development and release lifecycle (Google Play and AppStore distribution) for GPS-enabled social media and content
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UniversalTech Inc. Oct 2012 to Jun 2014 · 1 yr 9 mos PhilippinesTechnology Head (CTO of ExploreTalent)-
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The company is an exclusive IT/BPO company to support www.ExploreTalent.com and its satellite online properties.. - Responsible for the migration and deployment of 4-yr old legacy web application to the latest ZF 1.x framework, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, MariaDB (InnoDB) and Memcached to make it future ready. - Responsible for performance optimization of the ecosystem between 300-600ms response time. - Responsible for core technology standardization - Responsible for the development of the mobile web version - Responsible for tying together email/sms system and the universal notifications system which enables usage of multiple ESP used to improve legacy deliverability issues and sky high costs resulting to ESP cost reduction of at least 50% - Responsible for the establishment of a one-click deployment strategy that enables multiple deployment daily - Responsible for implementing and getting the buy-in of the owner and CEO of a truly agile working practices using Kanban/Lean that enables quick responses to market changes and most specially, top stakeholder expedite items that may or may not make sense. - Responsible for setting up the Contact Center Suite (VICIDIAL and Asterisk). IT operations included cybersecurity crisis management, intrusion mitigation and security improvement. - Engineered and implemented a holistic Analytics design solution using Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics - Responsible for Internal facility networking - Responsible for DevOps practice, monitoring and maintenance of systems - Responsible for migrating the server technology from Apache to NGINX+Varnish cache which resulted to a faster and more scalable application environment - Responsible for driving practice for continuous integration, deployment and refactoring - Provided turn-over training on process, software development and architecture to succeeding team, supporting them up to 2 months after my departure
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Assurant BPO Solutions Inc May 2012 to Sep 2012 · 5 mosHead of Infrastructure and Systems Engineering, Zalora and Lazada (South East Asia)
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The company is the BPO organization which serves as proxy of Rocket Internet in order to quickly put together a big development team based in the Philippines for Zalora and Lazada startup venture development. Today, Zalora and Lazada are the biggest names in e-commerce for fashion and tech products respectively in SEA. The department was short-lived after strategic re-organizations but with notable successes. - Responsible for infrastructure administration for all servers in SEA prior to consolidating them to one big cluster. - Responsible for re-organizing the existing teams of ~120 members which more than doubled their productivity - Responsible for streamlining the process practiced using Kanban in order to incrementally increase venture-specific features by extending a common proprietary framework developed by Rocket Internet's Berlin development team delivered weekly. - Responsible for putting together R&D teams to rapidly develop OMS (order management system) as part of the greater ERP/CRM initiative. Within a month, an OMS system was deployed and was used by 16 different countries in just a few weeks. This paved way to the parallel development of full-blown, in-house ERP/CRM (i.e WMS/IMS/OMS) which is used extensively to process your orders within Zalora and Lazada today. - Responsible for coordinating with teams from China, Berlin and Manila both locally and online together with what they call GVDs (global venture directors) and product managers. - Responsible for tying together cultural loose ends which is quite common for rapidly expanding multi-national venture. - Responsible for ensuring the orderly dissolution of the department
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