20+ years of experience

Experience

1. April 2026 – PresentManila, Philippines · On-site

   Head of Site Reliability Engineering

   Acquire Intelligence

   Leading the establishment and growth of the Site Reliability Engineering function, supporting Directed Technologies, an Australian technology business, as part of Acquire Intelligence's client engagement.

   • Improve incident response and postmortem practice with a focus on reducing MTTR, across AWS and Kubernetes (EKS) environments.
   • Define and implement SLOs, SLIs and error budgets to establish measurable reliability targets.
   • Enhance observability across systems through monitoring, logging and alerting.
   • Drive automation to reduce operational toil and improve engineering efficiency.
   • Build, mentor and scale the SRE team and overall reliability engineering capability.
   • Partner with engineering teams across time zones on architecture, resilience, scalability and reliability improvements.
2. March 2025 – April 2026Philippines · Hybrid

   Chief Technology Officer

   iNeXT Software

   • Led cloud architecture and DevOps for clients, designing scalable AWS environments (EC2, VPC, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch) with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation), reducing environment provisioning time by 70%.
   • Advised business owners on cloud modernization, cost optimization and scalability, cutting client cloud spend by up to 30%.
   • Mentored developers and sysadmins on DevOps workflows, cloud-native design and automation principles.
3. 2018 – 2025

   Senior Platform Engineer / DevOps Engineer / Senior System Administrator

   Sportradar Singapore Pte. Ltd.

   • Automated RDS PostgreSQL compliance checks and ISO audit processes, cutting monthly audit workload by 90%.
   • Implemented centralized monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) and AI-driven anomaly detection, improving MTTR by 35% across teams.
   • Built and managed GitLab CI/CD pipelines, increasing deployment frequency by 400% and reducing release errors.
   • Modernized production environments using Kubernetes, Helm and Docker, improving scalability and reducing incidents by 35%.
   • Designed and automated AWS infrastructure using Terraform and CloudFormation, reducing manual provisioning by 70%.
   • Led cloud cost-optimization initiatives (FinOps), achieving 15–20% AWS savings monthly.
   • Provided technical mentorship and enforced DevOps best practices across multiple engineering teams.
4. 2012 – 2018

   Senior Linux System Administrator

   701Search Pte. Ltd. (Southeast Asia)

   • Managed high-traffic marketplace platforms with 99.9% uptime, supporting millions of monthly users.
   • Built hybrid on-prem and AWS architectures to improve scalability and system resilience.
   • Optimized performance and implemented multi-layer security controls across production systems.
   • Reduced incident frequency by 25% through proactive monitoring and infrastructure tuning.
5. 2005 – 2011Singapore and Philippines

   System Administrator / NOC Engineer

   Earlier experience

   Linux administration, infrastructure support and network operations.

Skills

Cloud & DevOps

AWS (EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch), Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Terraform, CloudFormation, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, GitOps, Well-Architected Framework

SRE & Reliability

SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, incident response, postmortems, MTTR reduction, observability (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK), monitoring, logging, alerting, high availability

Infrastructure & Automation

Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, RedHat), Bash, Python, Ansible, Puppet, AI-driven automation, networking, load balancers, VPN, DNS/Route53, cost optimization, FinOps

Security & Compliance

IAM least privilege, KMS, SCPs, secrets management, CIS Benchmarks, Sysdig Secure, SonarQube, ISO audit automation

Leadership & Delivery

SRE team building, team mentoring, technical strategy, stakeholder communication, architecture planning, Agile