15+ years building software.
3+ years messing with AI.

Makati, Philippines

Lead multiple engineering, R&D, and support teams responsible for internal platforms, AI-driven automation, operational tooling, technical support, and engineering enablement across the organization.

• Manage and mentor cross-functional engineering and support teams, aligning technical execution with business goals while improving delivery efficiency, collaboration, and operational visibility.
• Direct development of internal platforms, dashboards, automations, integrations, exporters, and migration initiatives that improved productivity, reduced operational costs, and streamlined workflows.
• Lead AI-driven engineering initiatives utilizing AWS Bedrock, LLMs, and agentic systems to automate repetitive processes, improve knowledge accessibility, and accelerate engineering and support operations.
• Oversee R&D efforts evaluating and implementing emerging technologies, AI-assisted workflows, and greenfield engineering solutions.
• Spearheaded internal projects including AI-assisted testing tools, onboarding systems, UAT tooling, transcription platforms, project management dashboards, and AI-powered ticket management integrations.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement, technical ownership, innovation, and AI-assisted engineering adoption across teams.
• Contribute to hiring, organizational growth, resource planning, and the continued expansion of the Philippine engineering organization.

Makati, Philippines

Managed and led a team of software engineers and interns based in the Philippines, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and career development while collaborating with global cross-functional teams.

• Collaborated with global teams (Applications Engineering, Product Management, QA) to define project requirements and timelines.
• Spearheaded recruitment and selection of new team members, aligning hires with company values and culture.
• IT-Academy: ran bootcamps to upskill interns, led recruitment from multiple universities, designed training programs, and expanded partnerships with new academic institutions.
• Led an AI-integrated multi-purpose testing suite, a governance project to streamline internal processes, and an internal app plugin.
• Led a large-scale migration spanning 20 projects and 28,000+ tickets into Jira.
• Built a high-performing tech team focused on innovation and impactful project delivery.

Philippines

Led training, mobile and microfrontend development, and performance management for the engineering team.

• Conducted training on React JS and React Native.
• Built starter apps to serve as templates for future React JS and React Native projects.
• Developed mobile applications from scratch and maintained existing CRM apps using React Native and NativeScript.
• Migrated mobile apps from NativeScript to React Native.
• Developed microfrontends with React + Single SPA, plus custom middlewares.
• Ran performance appraisals and Scrum delivery cadence.

Philippines

Built microfrontends and microservices, ran integration spikes, and led a small team of developers.

• Developed MFEs and microservices.
• Ran spikes for ArcGIS and OpenWeatherMaps API integration.
• Led a team of 3 developers.

Iloilo, Philippines

Taught software engineering and web application courses to undergraduate students alongside industry work.

• Software Component Design, Design Patterns, OOP, Software Design Principles.
• Web Applications Development, HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
• API Development, Node.js, React.

Osaka & Tottori, Japan

Worked on a wide range of client projects, mostly with pharmaceutical firms, deployed on-site to gather requirements and deliver systems end-to-end.

• Sales Management System — C# .NET (MVC), PostgreSQL, JavaScript.
• Reporting System — PHP (Laravel), ReactJS, MySQL.
• AI Development for Health Science — Python 3, scikit-learn, SageMaker.
• Mobile prototypes and an e-commerce app in React Native, used as base code for future projects.
• Manufacturing project — Java EE / Spring Boot; worked directly with the Japanese client on requirements, change requests, unit tests, and staging/production deployments.

Osaka, Japan

Led a team of software engineers building enterprise systems with the Java ecosystem; established architecture and CI/CD practices.

• Delivered Appraisal System, Translation App, and Project Management System projects.
• Established the architecture and enabled the team to adopt new technologies.
• Set up CI/CD to automate builds and deployments to staging and production.

BGC, Philippines

Part of the development team for WAM versions 1 and 2.

• Contributed to feature delivery across two major versions of the WAM product.

Makati, Philippines

Software development analyst working on telecommunications systems and internal applications.

Mandaluyong, Philippines

Junior Java developer — first professional engineering role.