Cisco Certified Network Associate Routing and Switching (CCNA)

Electronics Engineer

Electronics Technician

Administrator for overall ICT infrastructure tasked to provide high quality and high availability services supporting the academic and research needs of the institute.

➤ Systems and Services
▪ Physical servers running Linux-based and FreeBSD OS (Supermicro, GIGABYTE)
▪ Virtualization (KVM, Xen, VirtualBox, VMWare)
▪ GPU supernodes (RTX, Tesla, Instinct)
▪ Orchestrated server provisioning (Ansible, Cobbler, MAAS, Xen Orchestra)
▪ Storage (RAID, FreeNAS, GlusterFS, CephFS)
▪ DNS (BIND9, PHNET, dot.ph)
▪ Identity & Access Management (LDAP, RADIUS, eduroam)
▪ Web Service & CMS (Apache, NGINX, Drupal, WordPress)
▪ Remote Access (OpenVPN, OpenSSH, Apache Guacamole, RavadaVDI)

➤ Network
▪ IPv4 & IPv6 subnetting of AS132459.
▪ Various L2 & L3 devices (HP/Aruba, CISCO, FS, Ubiquity)
▪ Wireless infrastructure (Ruckus)

➤ Monitoring, Surveillance and Security
▪ Network monitors with various weather maps (Cacti, Zabbix, nTopng)
▪ Institute-wide routing policies
▪ Server security from network to 

Systems and Network Administrator

Principal DevOps Engineer

Research of advanced networking and service protocols to develop a network-optimized infrastructure that utilizes Cloud computing for heavy workloads, fog-computing for enhanced mid-level data routing and processing, and edge technologies for end-user services.

Research Engineer

Systems Engineer entrusted with building and managing an infrastructure of diverse interconnected systems.
➤ Primary Infra Administration
▪ Linux-based servers (CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu)
▪ Linux-based services & applications (DNS, WordPress, LDAP, RADIUS)
▪ Containers & orchestration (Docker, Docker Swarm)
▪ CI/CD (GitLab EE, Kubernetes)
▪ Networking (Aruba, Ubiquity, pfSense, Ruckus)
▪ Google Workspaces Superadmin (prime.edu.ph, pcari.edu.ph)
▪ eduroam operations

➤ Teleconferencing
▪ Polycom Appliances
▪ Zoom Rooms & Zoom on-site servers
▪ Vidcon boxes

➤ Research Engineering
▪ High-capacity (100Gbps) networking (Wedge, Edgecore)
▪ SDN (ONOS, Open vSwitch)
▪ HPCN

Led and trained teams of engineers across the country about system administration and campus networking.
➤ Trainings & workshops hosted
▪ Campus network design & operations
▪ System administration
▪ Switching & Routing
▪ Network Monitoring
▪ eduroam & multi-layer Identity & Access Management

➤ Meetings attended
▪ Biannual conf

Systems Engineer III

➤ Community - Head of External Affairs
▪ Performs deep research and analysis about communities, projects, and games
▪ Establishes communications with representatives and determines partnership opportunities
▪ Leads the marketing efforts of the gaming community brand

➤ Blockchain game management
▪ Assisted with game management by developing tools to monitor and automate provisioning of non-fungible token assets
▪ Provided workflow and dataflow improvements once automation tools were launched

➤ Community development
▪ Endorsed and co-executed activities for the community welfare
▪ Organized weekly leadership workshops

Community Management

Systems Engineer I

Development of custom features on top of open-source VoIP application called FreeSwitch to be integrated with intelligent systems.

Software Engineer

▪ Built an IPv6 community network in multiple residential areas as PoC for a scalable and sustainable architecture for communities.
▪ Co-authored a research that was presented to and was awarded as best paper in the 3rd EAI International Conference on Smart Governance for Sustainable Smart Cities.

Systems Engineer II

➤ Founder, alapaap.io
▪ Digital foundation work for small businesses — websites, search, Google Workspace, cloud, online business profiles, AI integrations
▪ Senior cloud and SRE practice; PH-based, globally available

➤ Web Development & Cloud
▪ Next.js / React / TypeScript sites with Tailwind design systems
▪ Vercel / Cloudflare hosting; AWS, GCP, Cloudflare cost and security audits
▪ Terraform-based provisioning

➤ SEO, GEO & AIO
▪ Technical SEO and generative-engine-optimization work
▪ Local SEO and Google Business Profile setup

➤ AI Integration & Workspace
▪ Custom AI assistants and workflow automations
▪ Google Workspace setup (domain, email, files, calendar)

➤ Pro-Bono — PH Animal Shelters
▪ A small number of Philippine animal shelters per year receive a pro-bono public-facing foundation
▪ Bounded capacity; pro-bono delivered to the same standard as paid

➤ Social Media Data Analytics
▪ Automatic raw data collection apps which utilizes Twitter and Facebook APIs
▪ Dynamic chart

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