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OPERATIONAL - 7 TENANTS · AWS · REMOTE (ITALY)

I build the platformother engineers ship on.

I build multi-tenant SaaS platforms end to end - the Terraform that provisions them, the API they run on, and the product customers actually use. Staff Software Engineer - 8+ years in software, 5+ hands-on with AWS, and ~3 years leading cloud platforms: from AWS infrastructure-as-code to the shared backend services an entire product fleet runs on.

Open to Staff / Lead platform roles · Remote from Italy (CET), async-first · US and EU teams

8+
years in software
7
tenant portals
78%
core API authorship
$110K/yr
AWS under management

Selected work

4 case studies · 7 portals · 15 more
also shipped (4)
Campaign Manager

Multi-channel notifications - Twilio SMS + IVR voice and AWS SES email with CSV lists and templated messaging.

CCS ↔ Invoice Cloud Sync

Batch pipeline syncing multi-account customers in 5K-record batches - idempotent, tracked, self-reporting.

Bedrock Knowledge Base

Pipeline converting Oracle CCS reference docs into LLM training data - validated JSONL to S3/Bedrock.

Tenant Go-Lives

Primary engineer on four tenant launches; core contributor on two.

earlier work (11)
Ordermentum Wholesale Food and Beverage Online Ordering System (opens in new tab)

Wholesale food and beverage ordering and payments platform (contract).

HCL Digital Experience Content Composer (opens in new tab)

Content authoring for the enterprise digital-experience platform - product features and test automation at scale.

HCL Digital Experience Design Studio (opens in new tab)

Page and layout design tooling for the enterprise digital-experience platform - product features and test automation at scale.

Hope Technik (opens in new tab)

Click-and-collect AGV system - IoT mobile app driving a robotic arm to fetch shop supplies, with a web tracker for job completion (React, React Native, Python).

Soon Beng Huat Metal and Hardware Trading

Web application for buying and selling metal scrap (React, Express).

Bambini International (opens in new tab)

Photography, franchise and services web platform - portrait studio site and booking (React, Express).

CoDev Internal Portal

Talent recruitment and management portal.

Kickstart Express

Package delivery mobile and web app for customers and riders, published on Google Play (Ionic, Adonis, AWS, Socket.io).

Luckyah

E-commerce marketplace app with raffles, messaging and a wallet on Android and iOS, published on Google Play (Ionic, Adonis, Socket.io).

Sobida

Offline truck-delivery report mobile app (Ionic, SQLite).

Experience

2017 - present
May 2023 - Present
New York, USA (Remote)

Staff Software Engineer, Platform & Product

ESC Partners / HometownHUB
  • Staff Software Engineer, Platform & Product · Sep 2025 - Present
  • Senior Full-Stack Engineer (Cloud) · May 2023 - Jan 2026
  • Primary author (78%) of the core API middleware connecting 7 utility tenant portals to Oracle CCS via OAuth 2.0 - the auth, data-access, and integration patterns the whole fleet is built on.
  • Sole author of the internal developer platform: a Terraform control-plane (9 stacks, ~60 AWS resource types) with a Fastify/React dashboard that self-service provisions every client environment.
  • De-facto technical lead of a 5-engineer team, reporting to the COO/CEO - set the platform standards the fleet adopts.
  • Own ~$110K/yr of AWS across the production and test fleet - CI/CD, Datadog/CloudWatch observability, and FinOps tooling driving right-sizing and Fargate-Spot savings.
  • Built the team's AI tooling: Bedrock auto-remediation that opens fix PRs, a Claude PR reviewer in CI, and an agentic AI-SDLC pipeline with human approval gates.
  • Owned production go-live readiness for 6 client launches.
  • Closed an SSN identity-verification gap enabling account takeover - fixed wrong-person matches on ~2.4% of accounts, added attempt lockout, and ZIP-based disambiguation against the brute-forceable last-4 space.
  • Built a fleet-wide customer-interaction audit trail: a capture hook mapping authenticated actions and page views, tenant-scoped/IDOR-safe admin history API with CSV export and rate limiting, and 90-day retention.
  • Designed and shipped a multi-account usage-extract feature (backend API + frontend modal) letting multi-account customers export combined billed usage as one CSV, closing an admin-bypass IDOR gap found in review.
TypeScript · Fastify · React · Terraform · AWS · MongoDB · Oracle CCS
Mar 2024 - Present
London, UK (Remote)

Senior Full Stack Engineer

Nmblr
  • One of 3 core engineers on an ISO 27001-certified biopharma strategy SaaS in private beta with enterprise pharma clients.
  • Originated two subsystems from scratch: a DMMF-driven strategy clone engine and the Edge archive/restore isolation system.
  • Contributed to real-time collaboration (GraphQL subscriptions), OpenAI-backed generation features, and platform security (OWASP/IDOR, JWT sessions).
  • Originated a data-dependency subsystem - GraphQL contract, resolver, registry-driven modal - that warns before archiving or deleting finalised entities with dependents, then cascades the archive/restore across them.
  • Built out the Edge brand-strategy module - Belief Shift, Narrative, and competitive-landscape recap tabs with per-group finalise - and instrumented its LLM-backed prompt generation with llm_event telemetry.
React · TypeScript · Node · GraphQL · Prisma · PostgreSQL · AWS
earlier roles (7)
Mar 2022 - May 2023
Senior Software Engineer - CoDev. Internal talent-management portal; rapid, iterative issue resolution.
Sep 2022 - Mar 2023
Full Stack Software Engineer - Ordermentum. Restaurant ordering and payment management for hospitality clients.
Mar 2022 - Sep 2022
Senior Software Engineer - BaseMap Inc. GIS-based hunting and fishing mapping platform.
Feb 2020 - Apr 2022
Senior Software Engineer II - HCL Technologies. Product features at scale on HCL DX; automated test suites; led code reviews.
Mar 2019 - Feb 2020
Full Stack Developer - Zencomputes. Full-stack development, Singapore.
Mar 2018 - Mar 2019
Mobile Application Developer - Halcyon Digital Media Design. Mobile applications, Philippines.
Nov 2017 - Mar 2018
Software Developer Internship - 8Layer Technologies. Software development internship.
2014 - 2018
BS Information Technology - Polytechnic University of the Philippines

Operating principles

how the work gets done

Boring, proven tech.

Clever is what someone decodes at 3am. Standard library before a dependency, a dependency before a framework.

Root cause, not symptom.

Bugs get reproduced end to end before they get fixed. One guard in the shared path beats a patch in every caller.

Security is the default.

Every endpoint ships with authorization checks. IDOR is assumed possible until proven otherwise.

Smallest change that works.

Tight scope, flagged adjacencies, verified before commit. The best code is the code never written.

Capabilities

cloud → frontend

Cloud & Infra

  • AWS - ECS Fargate, CloudFront, Cognito, RDS, ElastiCache, KMS, Secrets Manager, WAFv2, SES, S3, Route 53, VPC, ALB, Elastic Beanstalk
  • Terraform
  • Docker · Kubernetes
  • Linux · OpenSearch

Platform & DevOps

  • Internal Developer Platform
  • Multi-tenant provisioning
  • Bitbucket Pipelines · GitHub Actions
  • FinOps - Cost Explorer

AI on the Platform

  • AWS Bedrock (Claude)
  • AIOps auto-remediation
  • Agentic SDLC pipelines
  • AI code review · LLM knowledge bases

Backend & Data

  • Node.js - Fastify, Express
  • TypeScript · Python
  • REST APIs · GraphQL · Prisma
  • PostgreSQL · MongoDB · Redis/BullMQ
  • Oracle Utilities CCS · Invoice Cloud

Observability & Security

  • Datadog RUM/APM · CloudWatch · Sentry
  • Structured logging
  • OWASP/IDOR · JWT · WAFv2 · Snyk

Frontend

  • React · Redux
  • TypeScript
  • Styled Components · Tailwind
  • Next.js

Contact

async-first · CET

ACCEPTING- STAFF/LEAD PLATFORM ROLES · CONSULTING · AWS / TERRAFORM / MULTI-TENANT

jajapabatao@gmail.com