Projects
PayrollHero
Senior Software Engineer
PayrollHero is time, attendance, scheduling and payroll in the cloud using facial information as its biometric.
PayrollHero, even at the start, fully practiced Lean principles (as depicted by the Eric Ries book). Responsibilities grew from just the technical design and implementation of features that have been approved by stakeholders, into actually proposing, ideating and championing them based on client discovery.
Duties included developing and maintaining features around schedule plotting, attendance gathering, HR information setup, report generation, and of course, payroll calculations from backend to frontend.
- Employment Period: November 2011 - June 2016 (4 years, 7 months)
- Technologies: Ruby on Rails, MySQL, AngularJS, Redis, Amazon SNS + SQS, Git, RSpec, Slim
- Methodologies and Practices: CI, CD, TDD, DDD, Scrum, Combination of Lean, Kanban and Kaizen
Devex
Senior Developer
Devex is the leading media platform for the global international development community - a social enterprise, that has a network of 700,000+ development, health, humanitarian, and sustainability professionals through news, business intelligence, and funding & career opportunities.
At the time of the employment, Devex.com was an online job board, project and business intelligence gateway, consultant profile directory, news site.Each of these domains had its own full text search feature, and members had different levels of access based on their payment package: from individuals, to job posters, to full-access executive members. Duties and responsibilities involved working on features within all these domains, plus the creation of a billing system and a separate control panel application.
- Employment Period: October 2008 - October 2011 (3 years)
- Technologies: Ruby on Rails, PostgresSQL, Cucumber, HAML, SASS, Paypal API
- Methodologies and Practices: Scrum, TDD, BDD
Yellow Pages Philippines (EYP)
Web Developer
The web version of the Philippine Yellow Pages.
A project to convert the old site into Ruby on Rails. The site, at the time, used Postgres stored procedures to execute searches on products/services and their sellers. Notable contributions include the creation of a user-referral system that allowed users to invite their friends via email and offered promos based on invitation counts.- Employment Period: April 2008 - October 2008 (6 months)
- Technologies: Ruby on Rails, PostgreSql