ACADEMIC BACKGROUND 

• Master in Entrepreneurship, Asian Institute of Management
• Bachelor of Information Technology, James Cook University Australia, Singapore Campus
• Undergraduate Studies in Computer Science, University of the Philippines Diliman

PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

• Founder and President/CEO, Apper Digital, Inc. (Apper Cloud Labs), AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner, Google Cloud Partner, and member of the Claude Partner Network.
• Program Director and Facilitator, enterprise AI, cloud, and engineering enablement programs, Apper Digital, Inc. GCash (Mynt): FinTech Engineer Cadetship, 800+ professionals upskilled and 200+ certifications earned at 95 – 100% pass rates; TechUpSkill; School of Operations; CSFM capability assessments; and a 15-session agentic AI engineering program. Globe Telecom (since 2018, 20+ training cycles): AC²E Accelerated Cloud Cadetship; Enterprise Group Sales Academy Cloud Business Practitioner Program for 223 account managers; G-TECH technical cadetship; and the 2026 NTG AI/ML on the Cloud Foundations for Network Engineers program.
• Adjunct Professor, De La Salle University – School of Lifelong Learning, Manila. Cloud Computing for Executives; Cloud Computing in Industry 4.0; Introduction to Cloud Computing with AWS.
• Software Architect / Product Engineering Manager / Senior Lead Software Engineer, Voyager Innovations, Inc. (PayMaya Philippines, Inc.). Led the PayMaya Payment Gateway engineering vertical and the company multi-cloud strategy.
• Director of Engineering, Loud Panda Interactive, Inc.
• Director of Engineering, RubrikLabs, Inc.
• Software Engineer, Viki Pte. Ltd. / Viki Inc. (Rakuten Viki), Singapore
• Founder and Lead Software Engineer, Hypermedia Software Development Services, Quezon City
• Software Programmer, Pusit.com, Inc.

AFFILIATIONS, AWARDS, AND HONORS

• Member, Management Association of the Philippines (MAP)
• National Vice-President, AIM Master in Entrepreneurship Alumni Club
• Member, Asian Institute of Management Alumni Association
• Member (CISSP, CCSP), International Information System Security Certification Consortium (ISC)²
• Cloud Community Leader, Amazon Web Services User Group Philippines
• Member, Golden Key International Honour Society
• Member, James Cook University Alumni Association
• Founding President, University of the Philippines Linux Users’ Group
• Founding President, James Cook University IT Club – Singapore Campus
• 1st Place, Asian Development Bank – Asian Institute of Management Hackathon, Digital ID track
• 1st Place, Philippine Mobile App Developers Day Hackathon

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

• Claude Certified Architect – Professional, Anthropic (2026)
• Claude Certified Architect – Foundations, Anthropic (2026)
• AWS Certified Generative AI Developer – Professional, Amazon Web Services (2026)
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, Amazon Web Services (2018)
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, Amazon Web Services (2019)
• AWS Certified Security – Specialty, Amazon Web Services (2019)
• AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty, Amazon Web Services (2020)
• AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty, Amazon Web Services (2021)
• AWS Certified Database – Specialty, Amazon Web Services (2020)
• AWS Certified SAP on AWS – Specialty, Amazon Web Services (2022)
• AWS Certified Alexa Skill Builder – Specialty, Amazon Web Services (2021)
• AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate, Amazon Web Services (2024)
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, Amazon Web Services (2014)
• AWS Certified Developer – Associate, Amazon Web Services (2018)
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate, Amazon Web Services (2018)
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, Amazon Web Services (2019)
• Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect, Google Cloud (2022)
• Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer, Google Cloud (2020)
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP®), (ISC)² (2014)
• Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP®), (ISC)² (2023)
• KCNA: Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate, The Linux Foundation (2021)