About Me

Technologist, Coach, Lifehacker, Filipino

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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

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