Joseph Michael Galero +65 8371 5228
[email protected] | github.com/mikong | speakerdeck.com/mikong | linkedin.com/in/michaelgalero
A software engineer with over fifteen years of experience in designing, implementing, and supporting software systems
TECH SKILLS
Ruby | Kotlin | Javascript | Python | Java | Rust | Ruby on Rails | Spring Boot | Ember.js | Express.js | Sinatra | PostgreSQL |
MySQL | Redis | AWS RDS | MongoDB | Cassandra | Nginx | Unicorn | Puma | Passenger | Thin | Apache | AWS EC2 |
DigitalOcean | Heroku | Rackspace | Git | GraphQL | Node.js | Socket.IO | Ajax | jQuery | Chef | HAProxy | HTML5/CSS3 |
Kubernetes | Docker | DevOps | System Design | Software Architecture | Agile Development | Microservices | IT Security
WORK EXPERIENCE
Senior Software Engineer, TradeGecko (acquired by Intuit) (Apr 2020 - Nov 2023)
- As code owner of multiple repositories of the Inventory Mgmt capability, I upheld high standards of code quality
and fostered team growth by engaging actively in our code review process and providing mentorship
- Led the Inventory Mgmt capability’s test automation framework initiative that effectively reduced the team’s
manual testing and accelerated our release cycle using Karate, Jenkins, Kubernetes and Intuit’s ID platform
- Designed and developed a service for providing a REST API to Apache Kafka and message publishing
verification for integration testing automation in a microservices architecture used by multiple teams
- Awarded Boundaryless Leader by VP of Commerce for demonstrating big picture thinking and planning
multi-sprint epics in the Inventory Mgmt capability and proactively contributing beyond my sprint domain
- As security champion, I guided teams in the Commerce org towards the timely resolution of security issues
- Led the data layer migration team to migrate several terabytes of data in a multitude of datastores (Postgres,
Redis, Memcached) to AWS (Aurora Postgres, ElastiCache)
- Migrated Rails applications from Heroku platform to Intuit Kubernetes platform
- Planned architecture improvements of our inventory and order management platform such as stock level
calculation optimization, and remodeling of stock transfer process
Application Support Engineer, Engine Yard (Sep 2013 - Apr 2018)
- Provided solutions to customers for software application and infrastructure related issues
- Contributed to the development of DevOps tools such as Chef recipes for setting up background jobs
processing (Delayed Job, Sidekiq) and integrating with New Relic observability platform
Senior Full-Stack Developer/Co-Founder, Nadarei (Nov 2011 - Aug 2013)
- Original co-author of Mina, a blazing-fast open-source deployment tool with over 2M downloads
- Developed SQL server monitoring application using Backbone.js, Rails, Node.js, and Cassandra
- Developed multiple web applications for various companies such as RemoteDBA, Jollibee, and SocialProjectPH
Mar 2010 - Oct 2011 Sinefunc, Inc. Founder / Senior Back-end Developer
Jun 2007 - Jan 2010 *Various organizations Consultant / Rails Developer
May 2004 - May 2007 Azeus Systems Philippines, Inc. Technical Lead / Junior Associate
OPEN-SOURCE
- Contributing to Rails and was a top 10 Rails code contributor for a few months in 2007-2008
- Published Rust projects such as a Redis-based minimal key-value store, advanced tree data structures and
cryptography exercises
CERTIFICATIONS
MSAAS-102 - Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) Nov 2023
Amazon Web Services AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (Jun 2016 - Jun 2018)
EDUCATION
BS Computer Engineering, Ateneo de Manila University, 2004
BS Physics, Ateneo de Manila University, 2003
Last updated: December 8, 2023
