I’m a Backend Infrastructure Engineer at Benchling, building and scaling distributed systems and high-performance APIs for mission-critical life sciences applications. With expertise in Python, Go, and Ruby, I design secure, reliable backend systems that power impactful solutions.

Experience

BenchlingSoftware Engineer

2024 — Now

San Francisco, California, United States

Managing Kubernetes infrastructure at Benchling, optimizing autoscaling with Karpenter, and ensuring scalable, resilient systems for high-impact applications. A couple of projects that I've worked on:

Secure network sandbox for running untrusted code (gVisor, Istio)

Platform feature for GPU and NVMe workloads on Karpenter nodes enabling ML and high-performance data workloads

StashSoftware Engineer III

2023 — 2024

StashSoftware Engineer II

2022 — 2023

New York City Metropolitan Area

Electrical and Electronics Engineering Institute, University of the Philippines - DilimanEEE Laboratory Assistant

2018 — 2020

Performed the maintenance and inventory of the computers under various laboratories in the institute

Debugged and investigated complex hardware and software issues

Optimized existing laboratory processes to increase efficiency

D.W. Morgan CompanySoftware Development Intern

2019 — 2019

Implemented a notifier microservice Ruby to receive and send different payloads such as email, push notifications (Amazon SNS), and even SMS (Twilio)

Attended a Tech Bootcamp about Full Stack Web Development (Git, Object-Oriented Programming, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, SQL (Postgresql), REST API, Microservices, HTML, CSS, SASS, Bootstrap)

Researched and presented possible notification services

Created and performed unit tests for the microservice using Rspec

Created documentation for the microservice and the tests done with it

Education

University of the Philippines Diliman

Experience

Education

Bachelor of Science - BS