Saint Louis University

Santo Thomas High School

Technical Lead Engineer at Red Dot Payment Pte Ltd

NTUC Enterprise Nexus Co-operative Limited

Team Lead

•	Support the entire application lifecycle (concept, design, test, release, and support) Produce fully functional backend applications and write clean code.
•	Gather specific requirements and suggest solutions.
•	Write unit and API tests to identify malfunctions.
•	Troubleshoot and debug to optimize performance.
•	Liaise with the Product development team to plan new features.
•	Ensure new and legacy applications meeting quality standards Research and suggest new mobile products, applications and protocols Stay up-to-date with new technology trends.

Senior Software Engineer ( Backend )

•	Created an automated test process for system features, where possible, and contributes to the build system.
•	Evaluated software implementation on design and task thoroughness
•	Developed and maintained the core API of the entire platform. 
•	Established coding standards, request and response standards.

Red Dot Payment

Technical Lead Engineer

MatchMove Pay is Singapore’s fastest growing technology company, providing innovative enterprise solutions to help businesses increase revenue, user engagement and loyalty through the strategic use of our customisable cloud-based PCI-DSS compliant platforms. 

•	Created a automated test process for system features, where possible, and contributes to the build system.
•	Evaluated software implementation on design and task thoroughness
•	Developed and maintained the core API of the entire platform. 
•	Implemented multi-pocket multi-currency wallet system for customers.
•	Lead remittance development and launching it in India, Philippines, Bangladesh, and China
•	Developed and integrated fraud risk management solutions.
•	Developed and Designed a from the ground up build of the Matchmove Remittance Payment System
•	Implemented MasterCard Digital Enablement Service used by Samsung Pay.


Tools Used: PHP/MySQL,Golang, Javascript/jQuery,Codeship,RAML
•	Web Server: Nginx
•	OS: DOS, Unix, Linux, OS X
•	Kohana Framework, Git, Phalcon, Laravel

MatchMove Pay Pte. Ltd.

Technical Director / Team Lead / Senior Engineer

MatchMove Pay is Singapore’s fastest growing technology company, providing innovative enterprise solutions to help businesses increase revenue, user engagement and loyalty through the strategic use of our customisable cloud-based PCI-DSS compliant platforms. 

• Responsible for producing, modifying and maintaining the user interface of the websites and websites application. 
•	Work closely with server-side developers in order to implement server-side code to be able to come up with a complex, interactive and driven websites database.
•	Contributes to the company’s development standards and working closely to the Technical Director or Development Head. 
•	Maintains high awareness of issues and trends in the industry in particular regarding, usability, emerging technologies and accessibility.

Tools Used: PHP/MySQL,Golang, Javascript/jQuery
•	Web Server: Nginx
•	OS: DOS, Unix, Linux, OS X
•	Kohana Framework, Git, Phalcon, Laravel

Senior Software Developer

MyDoc is a secure healthcare communications service. They offer secure and robust communication tools to doctors and patients available on iOS, Android and web. These are designed to improve the healthcare experience, reduce costs and improve outcomes. 

• Lead a team to redesign and develop a PHP REST API platform. ( Laravel 5.1, MySQL )
• Maintain and enhance existing legacy code. ( CodeIgniter )
• Perform code reviews and keep the source code under control in Git.
• Maintain a network of developers and branches outside of Singapore.
• Interpret business requirements and serve as a technical liaison to other developers.

MyDoc Pte. Ltd.

Lead PHP Developer

Kamelean is an online marketing and e-commerce player promoting products and services directly to consumers in various geographies. The company is based in Singapore.

• Develop and Maintain an eCommerce platform (Symfony 2.3.2 and Magento)
• Develop and Manage database systems ( MySQL )
• Roll out the eCommerce websites over several countries and across different channels (Web and Mobile)
• Integrate third party APIs (payment gateways, Emailing platforms, Advertising Tracking tools)
• Develop and Maintain a PCI compliant payment gateway.

Kamelean

Software Development Manager / Developer

TheMobileGamer is a Singapore mobile game company that develops Kotagames, a mobile game portal that targets South East Asian market. 

• Design and develop RESTful API to be used for Android Development
• Create detailed specification and documentations about the several API that are being developed by team members.
• Diagnose and fix bugs in new and existing code.
• Design and build advanced applications for the Android platform
• Work with outside data sources and API's
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance.
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development  efficiency.
•  Develops in-house analytics system using custom built PHP framework ( KISS MVC )
•  Perform exploratory data analysis of analytic data sets
•  Manages multiple server instances on Amazon Web Services

TheMobileGamer (TMG)

Lead Software Engineer / Android Developer

MatchMove Global is a Singapore based online game service  provider. They serve computer game enthusiasts across Southeast Asia, and are on  track to becoming one of Southeast Asia's leading games providers.

• Designed and implemented a Payment System that utilises various payment providers ( PayPal, Moneybookers, Zong and others ).
• Designed and implemented a scalable social network platform where friends can get together, interact, and play awesome games.
• Develop several Partner sites ( Yahoo, Starhub, Genting Group of companies, DST Group, Singapore Press Holdings and More ) that utilizes the Games and Social network aspects of Matchmove
• Designs and manages social network database system using MySQL and PHP (Kohana).
• Designed and developed a secure electronic wallet.
• Designed and implemented a private Social Network for any company, where users can collaborate securely across departments, geographies, content and business applications.
• Communicates the project development with overseas team in Chendu China and the Philippines.
• Provide technical support for usability issues and critical site problems, as needed.
• Oversaw a team of 2 junior programmers who had responsibility of building small modules for the site

MatchMove Global Pte. Ltd.

Software Engineer / PHP Developer / Team Lead

Security Bank is among the Philippines' top private domestic universal banks with a network of 170 branches in key locations nationawide, complemented by 279 Automated Telled Machines (ATMs) and the benefits and convenience of Bancnet's expansive countrywide system of ATMs.

•  Responsibility for the programming, design and maintenance of Digibanker (Online Corporate Banking site) site front-end and back-end using ASP, Visual Basic, HTML, MsSQL.
•  Responsible for the preparation of development documents.
•  Direct responsibility to modify, repair, update and expand existing programs and applications.
•  Wrote efficient programs that for the bank clients.
•  Prepared Deploy scripts to facilitate fast and hassle free deployment.
•  Provided technical support for branches across the country.

Notable Projects:
Digibanker Two Factor Authentication.
DigiBanker’s Billing /Invoice Presentment and Payment System
DigiBanker’s SSS Real-time Payment and Presentment System

Security Bank Corporation

Software Engineer / Junior Assistant Manager

Created a online market place for works of art, from painting to sculptures, coffee paintings and others. Users can login, choose the design they like, the kind of matting, and frame and that will be printed during a state of the art printer.

Lester Soriano