Our Speakers

Art Cuaresma

QA Lead
Amaysim Australia Ltd
• As an Information Technology professional with over 20-year experience in both Software Development and Quality Assurance. • Extensive experience in technical and management areas of Software Quality Assurance in various technologies. • Skilled in many Software Development Lifecycle methodologies from classic Waterfall, CMMI3, XP, RUP, Agile scrum, etc. • QA Lead in numerous projects like eLearning, Logistic, Telecoms, CRM, ... more
• As an Information Technology professional with over 20-year experience in both Software Development and Quality Assurance.
• Extensive experience in technical and management areas of Software Quality Assurance in various technologies.
• Skilled in many Software Development Lifecycle methodologies from classic Waterfall, CMMI3, XP, RUP, Agile scrum, etc.
• QA Lead in numerous projects like eLearning, Logistic, Telecoms, CRM, Order and Document Management systems
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Bujo Taduran

Senior Lead Engineering Security
Voyager Innovations
Having a strong background in software engineering and information security, he excels in collaborating and building well-architected, cost-efficient and secure software systems. In the process, he lead agile teams, growth hacked revenue streams, raised awareness about security bugs that were making huge financial losses to companies, spoken to different organizations both public and private about security trends and practices and is now ... more
Having a strong background in software engineering and information security, he excels in collaborating and building well-architected, cost-efficient and secure software systems. In the process, he lead agile teams, growth hacked revenue streams, raised awareness about security bugs that were making huge financial losses to companies, spoken to different organizations both public and private about security trends and practices and is now securing one of the biggest financial technology e-wallet systems in the Philippines, PayMaya.
 
The FinTQ industry is a highly regulated domain in the private sector. BSP Circular 982, PCIDSS and Data Privacy of 2012 are the main frameworks of security that his company is complying.
 
There is no shortage of work in the security field but everything can be managed through a risk-based approach. He believes that policies and processes should be based on this.
 
He likes to do tech stuff, infosec presentations and spreading security awareness in the private and public sectors. It is his career goal to become a consultant for the government and to help scale security best practices on a national level. 
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Diwa Del Mundo

Active Leader
Digital Identity, Payments, Cloud Architecture Mentor
Voyager Innovations, Inc.
Diwa is a technical leader from Manila, Philippines with interest in improving lives through digital services. He has almost ten years of experience mostly from software startups ranging from a co-founder, software engineering director, software engineering manager, software architect, and software developer.    Diwa is a firm believer in the practice of mentorship and idea of “paying it forward.” Over the years, He has ... more
Diwa is a technical leader from Manila, Philippines with interest in improving lives through digital services. He has almost ten years of experience mostly from software startups ranging from a co-founder, software engineering director, software engineering manager, software architect, and software developer. 
 
Diwa is a firm believer in the practice of mentorship and idea of “paying it forward.” Over the years, He has helped hundreds of professionals and students, directly and indirectly, improve their skills through my personal efforts in mentorship and activities in various organizations (AWS User Group Philippines, UP Linux Users Group, James Cook University clubs.)
 
As a developer, his core technical skills are Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Node.JS, Linux, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. He is also well-versed in the cloud and distributed architectures with a focus on the Amazon Web Services platform.
 
He has certifications in information security, payment card industry, and cloud computing. He isnt taking certifications for the sake of earning credentials or titles, but as a structured way to study a domain and get an objective assessment of competency.
 
  1. Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP®)
  2. Amazon Web Services Certified Security - Specialty
  3. Amazon Web Services Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
  4. Amazon Web Services Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
  5. Amazon Web Services Certified Developer - Associate
  6. Amazon Web Services Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate
  7. Certified Payment Card Industry Security Implementer (CPI-SI for PCI-DSS)
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Joshua Arvs Lat

Active Leader
Chief Technology Officer
Complete Business Online
Speaker • Mentor • Meetup Co-leader Ruby • Python • JavaScript • Swift • Elixir • R • Scala Strategy • Startups • Payments • Management Security • DevOps • Big Data • Machine Learning

Michael Gerard Galon

Active Volunteer
Hello! I'm Michael Gerard Galon a.k.a. GigaMike. I am web developer with extensive real-world experience. I consider myself a software craftsman rather than a simple programmer because I obsess over every detail of the applications that I develop. My commitment includes providing well documented and extensible projects that my clients can extend and maintain for years after I am gone.

I am open to work on projects from anywhere. ... more
Hello! I'm Michael Gerard Galon a.k.a. GigaMike. I am web developer with extensive real-world experience. I consider myself a software craftsman rather than a simple programmer because I obsess over every detail of the applications that I develop. My commitment includes providing well documented and extensible projects that my clients can extend and maintain for years after I am gone.

I am open to work on projects from anywhere. Thank you for your interest. I look forward working with you.

MIM | ZCE | ZFCE | AWS SA Pro | AWS SysOps Assoc. | AWS Dev Assoc. | CompTIA [x]

Paul Bartocillo

CTO
El Chatto
I’m a Software Engineer. AWS Certified Devops Engineer - Professional. Technical Partner.
Born in Manila. Has a wide experience in computer science and its practical applications. Well-experienced in managing, designing and securing cloud infrastructure with Amazon Web Services and leveraging other tools such as: Docker and Kubernetes. A decade of computer programming in various languages such as Python, Ruby on Rails, Elixir, ... more
I’m a Software Engineer. AWS Certified Devops Engineer - Professional. Technical Partner.

Born in Manila. Has a wide experience in computer science and its practical applications. Well-experienced in managing, designing and securing cloud infrastructure with Amazon Web Services and leveraging other tools such as: Docker and Kubernetes. A decade of computer programming in various languages such as Python, Ruby on Rails, Elixir, NodeJs, Angular, React, Vue but mostly Javascript.

Worked at multiple projects of various sizes throughout my career as a developer, solutions architect, devops, and freelancer.
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Rafi Quisumbing

Active Leader
Chief Technology Officer
EdukasyonPH
Raphael is a proud Cebuano Technopreneur. He is the CTO/VP of Engineering of Edukasyon.ph, the go-to student portal for making smarter decisions about education to employment. He previously served as senior IT management of Upteamco.com and Ava.ph, Fashion B2B and B2C E-commerce respectively and other IT forms that launched various brands, enterprises and online ventures.   “Sir Rafi” has genuine enthusiasm for effective ... more
Raphael is a proud Cebuano Technopreneur. He is the CTO/VP of Engineering of Edukasyon.ph, the go-to student portal for making smarter decisions about education to employment. He previously served as senior IT management of Upteamco.com and Ava.ph, Fashion B2B and B2C E-commerce respectively and other IT forms that launched various brands, enterprises and online ventures.
 
“Sir Rafi” has genuine enthusiasm for effective mentoring. He comes from a family of teachers and educators, and was a professor himself at the Sacred Heart - Ateneo de Cebu and La Salle College of St. Benilde.
 
As co-leader of the AWS User Group Philippines since 2013, he regularly answers questions, gives advice and organizes events for the AWS community.
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Rom Gapuz

Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services
A self-taught programmer, single-board tinkerer and someone who just love tech. Rom comes from a software engineering role before joining Amazon Web Services. He loves coding and currently enjoys Python. His passion for technology started at age 12 out of curiosity on how a game is made. Though the excitement of games brought him to the IT industry, he has never made one, but he is still hopeful.