Jomer P. Pangilinan
Director | Lead Global Platform Engineer
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Summary
Driven professional seeking a dynamic and progressive setting to collaborate with a team in accomplishing organizational objectives. Goal-oriented and motivated to secure a fulfilling career that effectively harnesses skills and valuable talents.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
9
9
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Director | Lead Global Platform Engineer
Manulife
09.2024 - Current
- Regularly review Azure usage to identify cost-saving opportunities
- Utilize tools like Azure Cost Management and Grafana to monitor resource utilization and identify underused or idle resources
- Implement rightsizing and automation to ensure resources are used efficiently and costs are minimized
- Develop and implement cost allocation and chargeback mechanisms using Azure Cost Management
- Use tagging and tracking to monitor and allocate costs accurately across different departments or projects, ensuring each team is billed correctly for their Azure usage
- Create detailed dashboards in Grafana to visualize these allocations
- Research emerging technologies to ensure teams have access to the latest toolsets to deliver faster, better, and easier to customers
- Using GenAI, produce new and creative ways of documentation and the distribution of information
- Connect business and technical insights to develop innovative proposals for evolving Manulife’s platforms, introducing new products or capabilities, or improving processes that benefit the firm or its customers
- Design, build, and deploy automation tooling and capabilities to enable application development teams deliver across a diverse global portfolio
Director | Lead Full-Stack Engineer
Manulife IT Delivery Center
10.2019 - 09.2024
- Lead multiple high-profile projects within the insurance premise particularly ePOS, an application that serves as a policy generation for Asia Life Insurance that offers modules like Product Proposal, Meet and Refine, and Apply, that are widely used either by agents or business partners across the Asia Region.
- Lead MITDC Innovation Guild and founded MITDC Labs to provide cutting-edge solution using new technologies in the market with considerations of Software Quality, Security, Performance and even AI space to be consumed by projects within the Asia Region
- Lead MITDC Cloud Cost Optimization also known as MITDC FinOps across different segments around the globe reducing the overall OpEx with a monthly frequency of 8% cost savings which is also presented to the CIOs, including transformation of manual processes through automation via Power Platform
- Participate in organizing MITDC Hackathon providing different teams with the needed tools and technology as well as coaching participating teams on how they can fulfill their applications
- Lead Regional Utility Services used within Manulife Asia Region providing design and implementation of software applications as well as infrastructure with considerations of Cost, Performance, Resiliency, High Availability, and Secured integration across different platforms within the Manulife Asia Region
- Provide Organizational structure to specific business streams to maintain the capability of engineers supporting the projects within the stream
- Provide cutting-edge solution design from an infrastructure standpoint up to the application landscape for projects across the organization that utilize the capability of the cloud
- Provide course outlines for engineers within the organization, used in a classroom type of training to ensure the capability is always up-to-date and aligned to the Organization's current technology stack
- Review and evaluate project applications before Engineering standards within the Organization that follow the 12FA methodology
Sr. Software Architect
RED Asia Inc.
11.2017 - 10.2019
- Creates architectural design using cutting-edge technology on the Cloud Infrastructure with consideration of CapEx and OpEx of the whole solution
- Provides recommendation and comparative analysis including cost and SLAs on project tools that can be used based on the output of research of new but not limited to globally known technologies
- Review of security implementation on applications based on organizations’ compliance and industry-standard security checklists
- Provides insights on how to improve application performance with consideration of the cost of the implementation
- Convert mathematical formulas to codes with consideration of design and cost of the development
Technical Lead
CHAMP Cargo System
07.2017 - 11.2017
- Creates proposals on appropriate solutions for new enhancements as well as provides the design on how it can be implemented
- Provides technical sessions within the team for new technologies that can be of business help within the organization
- Creates proof of concept upon providing the solution for any enhancement that needs to be delivered within the scrum team
Sr. Software Engineer
CHAMP Cargo System
09.2016 - 07.2017
- Supports application through bug fixing and development enhancement based on customer requirements
- Provides consultation with other teams on best approaches for project implementation and solution
- Provides support on application security
- Participate in development team discussions on small projects that will help improve current projects being handled
- Participates in code reviews with adherence to the company’s practices in programming
Sr. Application Consultant
NCSi Philippines
07.2013 - 08.2016
- Creates system design and architecture for project proposals, solutions, and implementation in the cloud
- Creates proof of concepts for new technologies and cascades among team members
- Helps set up system infrastructure for project development which includes networking, application servers, database, repository, and continuous integration tools
- Implement security for web applications and application servers
- Creates estimate and costs for the projects and distribute them across team members
- Train newly hired application developers
Sr. Programmer Analyst
Safeway PhilTech
02.2013 - 07.2013
- Support the transition of a new application for monitoring and tracking the supply chain
- Create estimate and update on tasks assigned to the team
- Conducts training for new technologies within the team
Software Engineer
Nabla Teligent
10.2011 - 02.2013
- Creates design and implementation for enhancement of an Android application
- Conducts code review on newly created functions before building and releasing them to the Play Store
- Refactoring of codes to optimize the performance of the Android application
Java Developer
Black Marlin Data Corp
01.2011 - 09.2011
- Supports applications mainly used by the US government
- Conduct unit testing before client release
Java Developer
GHLSYS Malaysia
07.2010 - 12.2010
- Creates design and implementation for new products that are used mainly for financial reports
- Established continuous integration for different modules within the same project
- Conducts peer review before releasing the modifications on the application to the integrator
- Creates proof of concept of possible technologies that can be used across different projects
Software Engineer
Novare Technologies
10.2008 - 07.2010
- Develop a new web application based on client specification
- Implements design based on the requirements given by the client
- Creates automated reports mainly used in the telecommunication industry
- Maintains and supports applications that are used for provisioning MSISDNs
System Engineer
Advance World Systems
10.2008 - 07.2010
- Creates schedule and planning across team members
- Supports embedded applications that mainly target multifunctional printers
- Creates estimates on deliverables for the team
- Conducts code review before release to client in Japan
Education
Bachelor of Science - Electronics and Communications Engineering
Technological University of The Philippines
Manila 06.2001 - 04.2006
Secondary Level -
North Fairview High School
Quezon City 06.1997 - 04.2001
Skills
AWS, Azure, Java, Python, NodeJS, Typescript, RDBMS, NoSQL, Spring Framework, SSO, Angular, ReactJS, Git, CICD Pipelines
Timeline
Director | Lead Global Platform Engineer
Manulife
09.2024 - Current
Director | Lead Full-Stack Engineer
Manulife IT Delivery Center
10.2019 - 09.2024
Sr. Software Architect
RED Asia Inc.
11.2017 - 10.2019
Technical Lead
CHAMP Cargo System
07.2017 - 11.2017
Sr. Software Engineer
CHAMP Cargo System
09.2016 - 07.2017
Sr. Application Consultant
NCSi Philippines
07.2013 - 08.2016
Sr. Programmer Analyst
Safeway PhilTech
02.2013 - 07.2013
Software Engineer
Nabla Teligent
10.2011 - 02.2013
Java Developer
Black Marlin Data Corp
01.2011 - 09.2011
Java Developer
GHLSYS Malaysia
07.2010 - 12.2010
Software Engineer
Novare Technologies
10.2008 - 07.2010
System Engineer
Advance World Systems
10.2008 - 07.2010
Bachelor of Science - Electronics and Communications Engineering
Technological University of The Philippines
06.2001 - 04.2006
Secondary Level -
North Fairview High School
06.1997 - 04.2001
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