Technologist, Coach, Lifehacker, Filipino
Things I love
- Family comes first
- Data, Software Engineering and people I work with
- Personal Finance and trading Futures
- Minimalism
- Helping others with the same interests
Professional Experience
- VP of Engineering (2019 – Present) at Acquia Inc
- VP of Engineering (2012 – 2019) at AgilOne Inc – Mountain View, CA
- Technical/Engineering Director (2011 – 2012) at HRPO Asia – Philippines
- Technical/Engineering Director (2008 – 2011) at LWSMedia Philippines Inc – Philippines
- Senior Software Engineer (2005 – 2008) at Software Pronto Inc / DeepArctic Inc – Sunnyvale, CA / Philippines
Things I’m good at
- Engineering Leadership and Management
- Scrum and Kanban – or whatever helps make highly performing teams
- Apache Hadoop and Spark
- Microsoft SQL Server (including SSIS, SSAS, SSRS)
- C# .NET and Java (Spring/DI and SpringBoot is awesome)
- Software Development Life Cycle experience with particular interest in Requirements, Estimation and Construction Best Practices, Stabilization (Debugging, Performance Optimization and Security) and Deployment
- Continuous Integration/Delivery systems (Jenkins, Docker, Vagrant, Ansible and some Chef)
- Test Driven Development (not a buzz but a must for code quality)
- Data Modeling (fancy word for database design)
- Machine Learning and Data Science
- Security (OWASP)
- Working knowledge of:
- NodeJs
- Computational Investing and Finance (and Econometrics)
- Technology Entrepreneurship
- Venture Capital/Angel Investing
- Digital Marketing – campaign performance, master data management, recommendations/clustering, multi-channel marketing
Things I believe provides an environment that creates high performing teams
- Psychological safety
- Dependability/Reliability
- Structure and clarity (or vision/goals)
- Meaning of work (importance of work to the person doing it)
- Impact of work (to others/community)
Certifications
- Certified Scrum Master
- Various MSFT certifications including
- Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer
- Microsoft Certified Professional Developer
- Microsoft Certified IT Professional – Busines Intelligence Developer SQL 2008 (Charter)
- Electronics and Communications Engineer
Top 5 Strengths
- Connectedness
- Relator
- Achiever
- Learner
- Communicator