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Felix Labayen

Felix Labayen

Paranaque

Summary

I am a back-end engineer with 7+ years experience and AWS DevOps Engineer for almost 4 years. As DevOps Engineer, my top priority is to maintain Kubernetes infrastructure stability, cost control Snowflake & AWS, release deployment via CircleCI & client-facing tasks such as handling ETL data loading requests. I enjoy working on technical challenges of all sorts.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

DevOps Engineer

MediaJel
Naic, Cavite
01.2021 - 11.2024
  • Provisioned Kubernetes cluster using AWS & kOps.
  • Managed budget and forecasting operations, enhancing resource utilization in AWS (Reserved & Spot Instance) & Snowflake (drop stale tables & trim rows).
  • Utilized Ansible and AWS CloudFormation to streamline resource provisioning tasks.
  • Containerized applications with Docker, pushing them to AWS ECR.
  • Facilitated automated code releases with CircleCI.
  • Executed AWS RDS CPU/RAM scaling using Blue-Green deployment.

Back-End Developer

Semicolon
Isulan, Sultan Kudarat
05.2019 - 12.2020
  • Developed unit tests for Laravel back-end application components.
  • Created Laravel RESTful API services to integrate with Vue.js front-end applications.
  • Developed back-end code using GraphQL for a food delivery mobile app in Flutter.
  • Executed go-live process by deploying applications to Laravel Forge.

PHP Web Programmer

VooVa Group
Pattaya, Chon Buri
05.2017 - 07.2020
  • Primarily developed features and resolved bugs in CRM web application.
  • Developed and maintained object-oriented code for web applications using PHP, HTML, JavaScript and CSS.
  • Managed MySQL database interactions and data integration within PHP applications.
  • Applied best practices to secure applications, including input validation, sanitation, and protection against SQL injection.
  • Maintained version control of source-code using Git repositories.

PHP Developer

Global Top Group
Pattaya, Chon Buri
02.2015 - 08.2016
  • Delivered web applications tailored to the needs of the real estate industry with PHP.
  • Develop geospatial software using Google Maps API.
  • Deployed applications onto production servers using FTP protocols.

PHP Developer

AAI Worldwide Logistics
Multinational Drive, Paranaque
05.2013 - 11.2014
  • Converted legacy warehouse management software from PowerBuilder/Sybase-powered desktop version to a dynamic PHP/MySQL web application.
  • Database management with Sybase.
  • Experienced with interpreting PowerBuilder programming.
  • Engaged multiple departments to determine specifications for application creation.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Information Technology

AMA Computer College
Paranaque City, Metro Manila, Philippines
09-2012

Skills

  • Kubernetes administration on AWS using kOps
  • Ansible automation
  • IaC tools: AWS CloudFormation & Terraform
  • Snowflake & AWS cost optimization strategies
  • Client-facing tasks: ETL data loading requests, white-label validation & granting S3 bucket access
  • Monitoring tools: AWS CloudWatch, Airflow for cronjob, Signoz for APIs & Dashbird for AWS Lambda
  • Artifact Management tools: AWS ECR, Docker Hub, JFrog Artifactory, NPM, Composer & Maven
  • AWS Route 53 management
  • AWS Identity and Access management
  • AWS auto-scaling implementation
  • AWS EC2 management
  • AWS Systems Manager usage
  • AWS RDS database management
  • AWS S3 bucket management
  • Containerizing TypeScript & PHP applications using Docker
  • PHP/Laravel development
  • Vuejs exposure
  • GraphQL API experience
  • Linux Bash/Shell script

Accomplishments

5 Silver Badges/10 Bronze Badges/Necromancer/Supporter/Teacher by Stack Overflow

Timeline

DevOps Engineer

MediaJel
01.2021 - 11.2024

Back-End Developer

Semicolon
05.2019 - 12.2020

PHP Web Programmer

VooVa Group
05.2017 - 07.2020

PHP Developer

Global Top Group
02.2015 - 08.2016

PHP Developer

AAI Worldwide Logistics
05.2013 - 11.2014

Bachelor of Science - Information Technology

AMA Computer College
Felix Labayen