• 17 years working in various Software Development and Engineering roles.
  • Started career as a Science Research Specialist in DOST - Advanced Science Technology Institute – the R&D arm of the country when in ICT and Microelectronics
  • Values the importance of a sound architecture in the success of products
  • Always updates himself with new technologies, even outside his scope of work
  • Comfortable working with managers, designers and clients, and mentoring junior and entry-level software developers

Work Experience

  • Metropolitan Bank and Trust Company

    Sr. Manager / Javascript Section Head, – present

    • Technical Development Manager for fullstack Javascript project teams
    • Assigned to online banking projects and several other digital products offered by the bank
    • Manages Development Leads to ensure manpower capacity is enough to meet project schedules
    • Works with Delivery Managers, Testers, and Business Analysts to ensure timely resolution and delivery of project releases
    • Participates in solution reviews and delivery reviews
    • Works with other units to catch possible escalation of issues in schedule, quality of releases, and deployment of needed contractors to projects
    • Conceptualizes and implements process improvements within project teams
    • Reports to the Software Factory Department Head

  • NCS Pte. Ltd.

    Lead Consultant, –

    • Responsible for setting up production environment for application teams
    • Involved in weekly deployment of new features and defect fixes in the UAT environment
    • Liaised with infrastructure teams for any changes in the production environment setup
    • Managed the Supporting Functions Team of any defects and improvements
    • Monitors teams to follow standards and framework guidelines

  • United Coconut Planters' Bank

    Manager - Java Unit Head, –

    Joined the bank to build their Java development team and establish development standards and industry best practices. Introduced code versioning system to project teams (even .Net teams) in the bank.

    • Managed development of multiple Java-based projects:
      • Trust Banking System - Spring Framework, Gradle, Grails, JBoss, and IBM DB2
      • Trade Finance System - Spring Framework, Maven, Grails, Jetty, and IBM DB2
      • OTP Sending - Spring WS, Maven, and Tomcat
      • Bills Payment for Pag-IBIG (Home Development Mutual Fund) - Spring Framework, OpenAPI Tools, Gradle, Grails, and JBoss
    • Redesigned development strategy established by the previous technical lead
    • Introduced reusable UI components of the initial design system
    • Continuously conducts code reviews with developers
    • Recommends to managers improvements to the server architecture in the production, UAT and development environments
    • Meets with development teams on the progress of their tasks/modules
    • Regularly reviews performance of developers

  • Citco International Support Services Limited - Philippine ROHQ

    Senior Java Developer, –

    • Assigned to several projects/sub-systems for the company's financial management application suite
    • Worked primarily as a back-end Java developer for XML/JSON over HTTP services using Spring and Hibernate
    • Involved in deployment of application artifacts and setting up of test environments for QA and UAT teams
    • Involved in technical meetings and project reporting sessions

  • DOST - Advanced Science and Technology Institute

    Technical Team Leader / Senior Java Developer –

    • Civil Service Commission – Computerized Examination (CSC-COMEX) Project
      • Designed the conceptual architecture of the CSC-COMEX system
      • Designed and implemented major workflows used in development
      • Developed 9 core internal Grails plugins used by system modules
      • Evaluated and selected needed Grails plugins, Java libraries and technologies to be used in the development of modules
      • Introduced a small set of reusable jQuery- and Grails-based UI components
      • Led systems analysis and design sessions with CSC Technical Mgt. Team
      • Practiced Kanban to track progress and manage tasks of back-end and frontend development teams
    • Philippine S&T Human Resource Information System
      • Developed synchronization functionality for PSTHRIS
      • Managed the project team’s releases in coordination with the development team, Systems Administrator and SQA team
      • Lead system demos to stakeholders
      • Participated in workshops, follow-up interviews and meetings

  • Advanced Synergies Philippines Incorporated

    Technical Team Lead / Senior Java Developer –

    • Designed the Manufacturing module for MANCO Enterprise Information System
    • Assisted in managing 3 development teams for the project
    • Prepared UML diagrams of the specification documents for clients and developers
    • Created a packaging tool to deploy updated source code to the client’s server

  • Oracle (Philippines) Corporation

    Senior Java Developer and Packager –

    • Developed system components according to the technical designs prepared by on-site architects for Yarra Valley Water's Customer Care & Billing
    • Prepared test plans of developed components
    • Built weekly package releases and system updates needed by the client

  • DOST – Advanced Science and Technology Institute

    Java Developer –

    • Philippine Biosafety Clearing-House (BCH) System
      • Wrote SOAP transaction handlers for data exchange with an external central portal
      • Represented DOST-ASTI to the National Biosafety Clearing-House Task Force
      • Provided the development team with designs based on business process specification
      • Lead project planning and data gathering activities
    • Food and Nutrition Institute's e-Nutrition System
      • Designed and implemented some administrator modules (Client Mgt, Data Mgt and Sales Mgt modules)
      • Wrote MyDES, a stand-alone Java desktop application for consolidation of dietary data from individuals and households
      • Participated in client interviews, regular meetings and demos

Freelance Work

  • Packt Publishing

    • Technical Reviewer
      Building Python Microservices with FastAPI,
      ISBN 9781803245966
    • Technical Reviewer
      Jakarta EE 8 Recipes [Video],
      ISBN 9781789958607
    • Technical Reviewer
      Building RESTful Web Services with Spring 5,
      ISBN 9781788475891
    • Technical Reviewer
      Spring 5.0 Cookbook,
      ISBN 9781787128316