About
Miggy is a Software Engineer based in Manila with extensive experiences in cloud technologies, cloud-Native development, distributed systems, software engineering, and Gen AI.
He is passionate about empowering people to get started in tech and contribute to social good through technology. He became involved in various startups and community initiatives; such as being founder of one of the largest external student organization in Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila: GDSC-PLM and currently a career coach at KadaKareer. He also provides tech empowerment and guidance to various start-ups and other initiatives, helping them kickstart their solutions with technology,
Outside work he enjoys going places, producing music, indulging in kdrama-kpop, and playing Tekken.
Work Experience
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Led a lean development team of 3 responsible for reimagining the Technician Deployment Platform of Globe using MERN (MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, Node.js) + GCP Stack.
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Developed SOAP and REST APIs that enabled Globe to offer eSIM products to its 100+M subscribers.
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Optimized various REST APIs' response times to lower loading times of Globe One Mobile App by 80%.
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Supported Globe's business operatiion and customer portals (Globe One Mobile App & Globe Online Store) with Java, Spring Boot and Node.JS.
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Provisioned GCP and AWS cloud resources through Terraform and Ansible.
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Delivered applications to production via CI/CD pipelines with Gitlab CI, Jenkins, and Docker.
A Koach that helps undergrads or fresh grad students boost confidence in finding what career paths are the best for them.
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Used C#, ASP .NET, Entity Framework, MS SQL Server and Azure to build new and maintain existing features of the company's SaaS product.
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Formulated a CI/CD pipeline using Azure DevOps, reducing manual deployments from hours down to 5-20 minutes.
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Led various automation initiatives creating dashboards for sales, customer support, and engineering using Power Automate, Clickup, and Retool.
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Established the final tech architecture using React Native, Expo and Firebase to ensure optimal feature delivery and minimal operational cost.
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Improved feature releases from monthly releases to bi-weekly releases by streamlining feature prioritization and development.
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Established a CI/CD pipeline using Github Actions, Firebase App Release, and Expo for releasing Android and iOS app to testers and to production. Improving deployment times of 4 hours to 20 minutes.
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Built scalable and performant web and mobile applications using React, React Native, TypeScript, Fauna DB, Node.js and Amazon Web Services.
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Developed an MVP that helped a client secure VC-funding slot in Blackbird Giants, largest VC firms in Australia.
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Constructed the initial MVP using the MERNG (MongoDB, Express, React, Node, GraphQL, TypeScript) stack, alongside Netlify and Google Cloud Platform.
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Established a CI/CD pipeline with Github Actions and Docker for deploying the backend services of the app.
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Improved codebase structure with Docker to cut codebase setup from 4 hours to 5 minutes.
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Maintained and implemented new features using Vue, Vuetify, Vuex, Node.js, Firebase, Netlify, and Google Cloud Platform.
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Increased throughput of feature releases from every second month to bi-weekly through development workflow improvement.
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Spearheaded deployments of mobile apps to Apple App Store, resulting to 90% client retention.
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Integrated payment gateway (Paymongo) and logistics provider (Lalamove) that helped increase client acquisitions by 50%.
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Supervised a team of student developers, that helped increase the feature releases rate.
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Helped the organization maintain growth and expansion by giving insights about future events and milestones set by the current GDSC Lead for PLM.
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Acts as second advice for executive-related decisions and witnesses for any grievance reports.
• Selected as one of the 25+ GDSC Leads for the Philippines along with 1000+ leads around the world.
• Helped promote technology to local student communities in order to encourage students to contribute to the good of society by solving community problems with technology.
• Gained experiences and learnings of Google-related developer tools and platforms.
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Selected as one of the 25+ GDSC Leads in the Philippines along with 1000+ GDSC Leads around the world.
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Established one of PLM’s largest external organizations from scratch and was able to gather 300+ student members around the university in its first year of operation.
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Directed three (3) internal events that enriched the members’ skills in terms of programming and web application development.
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Collaborated with six (6) major event partnerships from other GDSC Chapters in the Philippines, which helped in increasing GDSC-PLM’s social media presence (Facebook) by 20%
Education
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MAGNA CUM LAUDE
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Class Valedictorian for Computer Science Department (Top 1), Batch 2018 - 2022
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Empowered more than 200+ student developers around PLM by establishing one of the university's biggest external student organizations: Google Developer Student Clubs - PLM.
Projects
PLMAT is the university's admission exam for students who aspire to be part of the University of the City of Manila. This annual exam has been done physically in the university. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for a secure and integral online admission system was raised by the university.
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Online PLMAT System is an online admission system for PLM, this aims to let applicants take the admission test over the internet.
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Lead DevOps and Cloud Engineer, handling deployments using Google Cloud Platform and Render.com
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Used Django REST & Vue.js for development.
PLM Mobile App is an undergraduate and graduate student-facing mobile app that delivers all the student's needs in one platform. This app enables users to see the full details of the university, as well as the details and records of the student in the university's database.
• Helped the development team to establish the internal scrum activities to minimize development time and maximize productivity.
• Acted as a consultant for technological decisions relating to the system's architecture and implementation.
Awards
Chosen as the Grand Champion team in Accenture's Student Leadership Conference Design Thinking Contest. Chosen as the grand champion among 9 competing teams.
Created a solution that takes the SGD Problem 2: Zero Hunger by creating a consolidated in-kind and financial donation mobile app that rewards users with equivalent "coins" based on the tier of their donations. Coins are exchangeable for digital goods such as Grab and Lazada Vouchers and such.
Algolympics is a programming competition open to all interested undergraduate students from different schools, colleges, and universities across the Philippines. It is patterned after the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM-ICPC), a prestigious international event organized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Ultimately, Algolympics seeks to raise the standard for computer science education in the country.
Top 6 finalists across 40+ participating universities around the Philippines.
• SandboxPH is a virtual startup competition for young Filipinos that encourages ideas that solve problems in terms of access, artificial intelligence, digitization, gig economy, and socialization.
• Was selected as one of the grand champions from a pool of 27+ teams around the Philippines.
• The team's entry: "Teemly" won the grand prize of PHP 110,000 with grants up to PHP 2.5M.
• Teemly is an all-in-one meeting toolkit, Which makes all your meeting in one place and supercharges your team with an intuitive all-in-one workspace.
• Created the whole application with React, Express, and Firebase.
Was able to garner 5th Place, out of 12 competing schools on the 10th I.T QUIZ BEE COMPETITION for the event: 10th I.T Skills Olympics by University of Makati
HackFest 2020: Online is a 10-day event composed of online technical workshops, webinars, and a 48-hour hackathon proper where students can exercise the skills they learned by coming up with creative, digital solutions to a given problem through the use of technology.
• Submitted a web application that shows a community-driven list of mental health and well-being services around the country.
• The web application used Vue.js and Firebase.
Speaking
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Resource speaker who introduced containers and its benefits.
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Demonstrated app deployment with containers through Railway.app and AWS ECS & AWS ECR
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Spoke to 200+ Computer Engineering Students of various year levels across Metro Manila.
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Gave a talk on how students can start their careers in tech, even when they are still a student.
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Gave a talk with 50+ graduating IT students of Technological Institute of the Philippines regarding Edge Computing.
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Demonstrated deploying application to the edge with AWS Amplify Hosting, showing how Edge Computing is applied in application development.
Introduced cloud computing concepts and introduction to Google Cloud Platform for the graduating Computer Science class of De La Salle Araneta University.
Attended by 100+ graduating Electronics Engineering Students of TUP Manila that focused on discussing what cloud computing is and how it is applicable in their own careers. Also gave an introduction on how Google Cloud Platform is used and its use cases.
Talked about Audio Processing and how it can be used in Machine Learning to perform classification and other ML tasks.
A two-part talk series that discusses about the introduction with Git and how to use it. Was the speaker responsible for demonstration of how Git is used.
Talked about the Python Programming language to 100+ student attendees
Attended by 200+ virtual participants, discussed about how to use Google Cloud Platform.
Spoke to 500+ filipino developers who attended one of the biggest tech conferences in the Philippines which is hosted annually by Google Developers Group Philippines. Talked about how they can use Firebase Auth as their Authentication System in their full-stack applications.
A talk given to 100+ 3rd Year Computer Engineering Students of Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila that discusses about creating a full-stack web application with React and Supabase.
Nestbox is the annual GDSC-L Fellowship, created to equip fellows with the skills needed to build solutions for problems found in our communities.
Delivered a talk that helps participants find their tech stack for their capstone project. My talk focused on practical tips that they could follow to assess if the tool fits their product and their team. At the same time, I gave starting technologies they could start exploring and see fit for themselves.
Study Jams are a monthly community meet-up that focuses on talking about how technologies are used.
Delivered a talked about a general overview of what Backend Systems are, what are they for, and some technical jargon used as a Backend Developer. This talk is also an upskilling talk for the backend developers for a school-wide tech project mandated by the University's President.
Was able to deliver a motivational talk to more than 200+ engineering students at the University of the City of Manila, about seizing opportunities in the tech industry while still being a student.
Certifications
Various completion of lessons and hands-on activities on various topics about Cloud Computing in Google Cloud Platform:
• Google Cloud Essentials
• Create and Manage Cloud Resources
• Perform Foundational Infrastructure Tasks in Google Cloud
• Baseline: Infrastructure
• Baseline: Deploy & Develop
• Deploying Applications
• DevOps Essentials
• Migrating Virtual Machines
• BigQuery Basics for Data Analysts
Exhibitions
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Presented our undergraduate thesis dissertation entitled: SemanTV: A Content-Based Video Retrieval Framework.
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This study aims to provide a simple yet scalable framework for building content-based video search engine systems for software developers, using Python, FAST.API, Google Cloud Platform's Video Intelligence API and the S-BERT Algorithm.
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The only Filipino Presenter out of 15+ international presenters during the conference. Participants came from China, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, India, South Africa, Columbia, Pakistan, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.