IT Career Talk: Product Manager Minrie (Elica Marie) Macapugay – Futurist | FashionTech | eCommerce

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Guest Ms. Minrie Macapugay of YoungCTO Rafi Quisumbing 

Minrie is a technical project manager and entrepreneur who has worked with global DTC e-commerce brands boosting their omnichannel presence from offline to online. she has experience working in roles from product, project management and development.  

linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/minriemac…

instagram: https://www.instagram.com/codinggoddess/​ 

She is the co-founder and CEO of complab.io, a nocode meets code hub for custom components and templates. Also, The chapter lead for Fashion and Beauty Tech Philippines (https://www.beautytechcommunity.com/​) and FB Developer Circle.

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IT Career Talk: DevOps Engineer Karina Alvarado – 2x AWS Certified | ITIL® | LSSYB

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Guest Ms. Karina “Kaye” Alvarado of YounCTO Rafi Quisumbing 

Kaye is a Senior DevOps Engineer for Macquarie Bank, a FinTech company. She has worked in various IT industries from Retail Software, ETL applications, and Real Estate, primarily as a Software Developer. Her passion for automation and cloud technology switched her over to a DevOps role where she manages Identity Management for various applications and maintains the platform hosted in AWS.  

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaye-alva…​

https://kayealvarado.medium.com/​

Gets stuff done in a calm manner, and can motivate people to do the same.

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IT Career Talk: Part Leader Kenneth Samonte

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Guest Engineer Kenneth Samonte of YoungCTO Rafi Quisumbing  

Ken is an Amazon AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, AWS Certified DevOps Professional, Certified Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Engineer, and Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA). His career started as a full-time on-premises Linux/UNIX system administrator. Now, he’s working as a Cloud Architect for Samsung Research and Development Philippines.  

LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenneth-s…​  

Ken is also a VMware Certified Professional, IBM AIX Administration Certified has an ITIL v3 Certification. I’m a registered Electronics Engineer and a Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA). Ken has also written a book dedicated to AWS DevOps Professionals who want to get AWS Certified.  Core Technologies: Cloud: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform Infrastructure: Terraform, Ansible, AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, VMWare, Linux, OpenStack, Ceph, Resilience, and Disaster Recovery. CI/CD: Spinnaker, Jenkins, Packer, CircleCI Monitoring: Stackdriver, SumoLogic, DataDog, NewRelic, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Grafana, Prometheus, Zabbix. Programming: NodeJs, GraphQL, Java, RDBMS, NoSQL, MySQL, Redis, Memcached, SOAP, Microservices Miscellaneous: WordPress, Zimbra, iRedMail, JIRA, Red Hat, Ubuntu  If you want to be a guest here, please reach out to me anywhere. Kahit mag comment lang oks na.   

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IT Career Talk: Cloud Support Engineer Timothy Manito – Networking @ Amazon Web

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Guest Mr. Timothy Manito of YoungCTO Rafi Quisumbing

Experienced Cloud Support Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in Cisco Networking, Switches, Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Network Administration, and Network Design. Strong information technology professional with a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) focused in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Polytechnic University of the Philippines.   

LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tmanito/

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PH IT Career Talk: President and Managing Director Michelle Alarcon – Consulting Services Executive

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Guest Ms Michelle Alarcon of YoungCTO Rafi Quisumbing 

Result-oriented, Strategic thinker, and with Proven Ability to Execute    

https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-…​

https://www.zliftsolutions.com​

25 years in the IT Consulting industry, working with local and multinational organizations successfully in roles such as Managing Director of a Consulting firm, Consulting Director of an Offshore Delivery Center, Head of Analytics of a private bank, Business Development Head of a Spain-based consulting firm, and Practice Leader for Business Intelligence and Analytics.    

FTW: https://www.ftwfoundation.org/https://www.facebook.com/ftwfoundation

Association of the PHilippines: https://aap.phhttps://www.facebook.com/AnalyticsAss…

RUGPH: http://www.meetup.com/R-Users-Group-P…https://www.facebook.com/rugph

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IT Career Talk: Freelance Python Developer Angelica Lapastora -BackEnd Developer | Python.PH Trustee

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Guest Ms. Angelica Lapastora of YoungCTO Rafi Quisumbing 

Angelica Lapastora is a Digital Operations Engineer – APAC at BMAT  Licensing SLU, Barcelona, Spain. She specializes in creating backend  services with Python, Django and AWS Lambda. She is also a Director of  Marketing at PythonPH and a Python Lead at Women Who Code Manila.   

https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelica-lapastora-6585b2139/

https://python.ph/

MySQL, Amazon S3,  Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS),  Django,  PostgreSQL ,  Vue.js ,  Teaching, Communication ,  Team Leadership ,   Amazon EC2 ,   Amazon Dynamodb , RabbitMQ ,  Celery ,  Amazon SQS,  API  Development

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IT Career Talk: Product Owner Annalyn Garillo -Digital | Transformation | Enabler | Strategy | Agile

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Guest Mrs. Annalyn Garillo of YoungCTO Rafi Quisumbing 

Wide experience specializing in the areas of Government Software  Applications, Banking and Financial Systems, Credit Cards  Authorizations, Retail Merchandising, Insurance, Mortgage Lending, and  Digital Content. Experience in full project Software Development Life  Cycle (SDLC), Agile Scrum methodology, problem analysis and isolation,  software quality testing, application and requirement analysis,  implementation, and documentation. Experience in technical and  production support, software and hardware installation and maintenance,  troubleshooting and bench marking.   

LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annalyn-garillo-63b47820/   

WOMEN IN TECH

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IT Career Talk: Managing Director & Technical Lead Ardee Aram – E-commerce, Micro-SaaS, Serverless

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Guest Mr. Ardee Aram of YoungCTO Rafi Quisumbing 

Ardee creates applications that empower entrepreneurs. As previous  director of Engineering, he designs and implement blockchain and  cloud-based financial solutions.  

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ardeearam/ https://klaudsol.com 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/serverless.ph

https://tylertringas.com/

* I handle our AWS-based infrastructure, which includes but is not  limited to: *** ECS, EC2, VPC, S3, IAM, Cognito, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch,  CodeCommit, CodeBuild, SES, CloudFront, Certificate Manager, and some  serverless applications.  * I see to it that the Engineering Department has all the tools,  training, and motivation for the timely delivery of updates, and  trouble-free maintenance of the following products:  (Node.js / ES6) Buy & sell Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and  Bitcoin Cash (BCH) through money changers  (Node.js / ES6) Bitcoin, Peso, and USD wallet for fast and seamless  international transactions  (Ruby on Rails) Cryptocurrency exchange with tools to empower  experienced traders

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IT Career Talk: YoungCTO (Chief Technology Officer) Albert Padin – Google Developer Expert

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Guest Chief Technology Officer Albert Padin of YoungCTO Rafi Quisumbing

Albert is a developer and entrepreneur who’s worked on consumer,  enterprise, and government software products. He is the co-founder and  CTO of Symph, a design, development, and startup studio. At Symph, he  has architected and developed solutions for 500 Startups, Office of the  President of the Philippines, and the World Bank.   

LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/albertpadin/   

If you want to be a guest here, please reach out to me anywhere. Kahit  mag comment lang oks na.  

Google Developer Expert for Cloud & Machine Learning • Founder/CTO  at Symph.co AI, applications, architecture, artificial intelligence, benchmarking,  capacity, cellular, communications, data, data recovery, database,  desktop, disaster recovery, documents, end user, engineering, firewall,  hardware, IaaS, information systems, imaging, implementation, java,  javascript, LAN, local area network, machine learning, multi-user  interface, network administration, NoSQL, operating system, project,  real time, remote access, SaaS, security, server, SQL, startup, systems  acquisition, systems configuration, WAN, wireless   

If you want to be a guest here, please reach out to me anywhere. Kahit  mag comment lang oks na.   

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IT Career Talk: IT Consultant Ruel Nopal – Start-Up IT Consultant , Founder

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Guest Mr. Ruel Nopal of YoungCTO Rafi Quisumbing Startup IT Consultant.

I help executives make informed decisions  regarding technology they will use for their company.   

LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruelnopal/

WEBSITE: https://www.ruelnopal.com/

BLOG: https://itph.dev/    

Designed and develop a new optimize server infrastructure inside AWS  instance, as a result, the company saves more than 60% of the budget for  infrastructure. Developed a script that automatically finds leads to a certain website  as part of the company growth hacking initiative saving hundreds of  hours if doing it manually. Designed a secure and efficient way to negate a security breach for a  critical part of the business website. as a result, they were able to  catch the hack on-time with no loss and user data being compromised.   

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