Jim Well Balatero

Software Engineer

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✔ More than 7 years of experience in web development focused on creating scaleable, performant, and secure web applications.

✔ I've worked with companies from Sweden, USA, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Australia, Germany, UAE, Denmark & Philippines.

✔ I've successfully developed and deployed multiple web apps and services online into production environment.

✔ I've managed multiple developers remotely for more than 4 years.

✔✔ Experienced dropping all database table in production thinking it was the test server.

✔✔ Experienced removing all user uploaded files resulting to client needs to re-upload the files manually.

✔✔ Experienced shutting down a live EC2 instance thinking it was the test instance.

Experiences

Senior Fullstack Engineer

Wavemaker Labs ~ Los Angeles, California, USA | Feb 2022 - PRESENT

Worked with fleet of robots web application management.
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PHP Web Developer

TravelFreely.net ~ Colorado, USA | March 2020 - Feb 2022

✔ Worked with Vagrant, Codeigniter, VestaCP, and MySQL
✔ Worked with ActiveCampaign and MailGun... Show more
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Full-Stack Web Developer

Platformizer ~ Herning, Denmark | July 2021 - PRESENT

Developed and maintain web app features of a school survey system using Symfony &
ReactJS.... Show more
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Backend Web Developer

MIIT ~ Brisbane, Australia | May 2020 - PRESENT

Developed and maintain backend API features of a social media web app using
CakePHP. ... Show more
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Senior Web Developer

ZenepalHR (Kensington Insurtech Limited) ~ Dubai, United Arab Emirates | May 2020 - PRESENT

Developed and maintain features of a HR management system using Laravel.
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Head Of Development/Solutions Architect

OptiDig.com ~ Sweden | Feb 2016 - June 2020

✔ Developed an architecture to increase the throughput of sending millions of emails
per hour. Using Golang, RabbitMQ, PowerMTA, producer-consumer strate... Show more
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API Developer

CuriousLab.sg ~ Singapore | Jun 2019 - Dec 2019

✔ Developed RESTful API for singaporebiennale.org CMS using Directus 7
✔ Managed production server live deployments and updates using AWS an... Show more
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App Developer

Samdhana.org ~ Indonesia | Jul 2019 - Oct 2019

Developed a desktop app using ReactJS and Laravel, where a user can import large
Excel files and generate a printable PDF file based on the records from the ... Show more
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Software Developer

Cleversoft, Inc. ~ Philippines | Dec 2015 - May 2016

Ported a legacy project from PHP to Python from scratch and saw an increase in
throughput using the same server hardware specs.... Show more
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Full Stack Web Developer

JumixDesign.com ~ Penang, Malaysia | Apr 2015 - Jul 2015

Developed a full-stack web application project developed for International Islamic
Information & Daawah Centre(IIDAC) from Malaysia.... Show more
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Software Engineer

Codeitat Software ~ Philippines | Jan 2013 - Dec 2015

✔ Web Development - PHP (CodeIgniter II & III, Yii Framework), JavaScript, CSS
✔ Database Engineering - Couchbase Server, Couchbase Mobile, Sync Gate... Show more
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Web Development Intern

City Accounting Department, Government of Cagayan de Oro City ~ Philippines | Apr 2014 - May 2014

Developed an accounting information system - web application for the accounting
department for our City Government during our On-The-Job Training and I'... Show more
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Accomplishments

400+ reputation in Stackoverflow.com... Show more
1st Runner Up - 1st DevCon Java Hackathon... Show more
Publication: Library Augmented Reality Assistant (Lara): an Assistive Augmented Reality
System for Library Users
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Passer of ICT (EDP) Proficiency Examination for Computer Programming... Show more
Professionally licensed development tools... Show more

Open Source Contribs

github.com/ci-bonfire/Bonfire
github.com/directus/directus
yiiframework.com/extension/jbalpanelmenu

Education

BS Computer Science

Xavier University, PH

2011 - 2015

Skills

PHP Frameworks

LaravelLumenYiiCodeIgniterSlimZend FrameworkZend Expressive/MezzioSymfonyCakePHP

JavaScript

VueJSReactJSVanilla JSjQueryTypeScript

Databases

MySQL/MariaDbMongodbSQLiteCouchbase/LiteAWS DynamoDb

DevOps

AnsibleAWSLinux(Debian, CentOS, Ubuntu)VagrantDockerKubernetes

Test Automation

SeleniumSelenoidCodeceptionPHPUnit

CMS

WordpressDirectusPayloadCMS

Analytics

Google AnalyticsGoogle Tag ManagerActiveCampaign Site TrackingFacebook Pixel

Languages

PHPJavaScriptGoPython

Mobile

React NativeExpoIonic

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