First Vice President — Head of Cloud Engineering
Jan 2025 – Present
Security Bank Corporation
Head of cloud engineering for one of the Philippines' leading universal banks — accountable for the reliability, security posture, cost, and operating model of the bank's cloud estate under regulatory scrutiny. Principal author of the bank's cloud operating model and governance standards, covering decision rights, architecture review, change control, and compliance gates. I lead the modernization, capacity, and platform-security programs that keep business workloads uninterrupted while reducing run cost.
Director — Cloud Services (Head of Cloud)
Oct 2019 – Dec 2024
Cebu Pacific Air Inc
Built and led the airline's cloud function through its full transformation — from foundational infrastructure to a platform-engineering operating model — under continuous uptime and passenger-experience demands. Owned the platforms hosting mission-critical maintenance and flight-operations systems through peak seasonal load. Led large-scale cloud migration, containerization, DevSecOps re-engineering, cross-region disaster recovery, and the chargeback model that made platform spend accountable to the business.
Director — Cloud Planning Head
Mar 2018 – Sep 2019
Globe Telecom
Joined the Philippines' leading telco midway through its cloud journey to strengthen cloud planning and delivery. Built the playbooks that guided cloud migration, championed Ansible-based automation across the server estate — a Project of the Year finalist — and led the initial OpenShift proof of concept. Served on the steering committee for digital infrastructure.
Mobile Application Head
Mar 2014 – Jan 2016
Samsung PH R&D
Led the mobile application group at Samsung PH R&D, co-developing and commercializing software for the company's flagship products. Notable as the leader who delivered the R&D centre's first two A-grade patents (US20170010806A1). Authored the ideation selection framework behind them — designed to move concepts to production fast, and to make sure what shipped was actually useful.
Earlier Career
2005 – 2017
Engineering, Delivery & Commercial Roles
Exist Software Labs · Business Development Manager – Solution Architect · 2016–2017 — a deliberate career pivot: closed two international clients in six months on deals won through engineering acumen, with managed services positioned as "engineering pods" rather than tickets.
Misys Banking Systems · Project Lead · 2011–2013
SeaChange International · Lawson Software · engineering roles · 2008–2011
Digitel (Smart Communications) · Supervising Analyst / Risk Management Officer · 2005–2008 — authored the fraud-detection systems and algorithms that protected telco revenue.