Charton Sapinoso
Summary
Dynamic and versatile full-stack solutions developer with over 20 years of experience in software engineering, IT, research, and customer service. Proven track record in key engineering and leadership roles across multiple successful startups demonstrates the ability to effectively manage both onshore and offshore teams. Expertise in web and mobile application development, DevOps, and systems and data architecture ensures the delivery of innovative solutions that drive business success. Co-founding ISBX and ISBX Philippines highlights a strong commitment to fostering growth and excellence in technology-driven environments.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Lead Software Engineer
Pluto TV / Paramount Skydance
01.2024 - Current
- Lead Observability onboarding of enterprise and internal platform microservices and core infrastructure services
- Lead implementation of policy-as-code for Kubernetes onboarding of services utilizing Open Policy Agent, Gatekeeper, Conftest, Konstraint and Rego
- Lead the implementation of migration to OTLP metrics from prometheus and statsd
- Lead implementation of vendor neutral observability pipeline using OpenTelemetry Collector
Senior Software Engineer
Pluto TV / Paramount Skydance
08.2021 - 01.2024
- Design and perform system and server management, database management, configuration management, deep troubleshooting, preventative and corrective maintenance, performance monitoring and enhancement for cloud / hosted large scale consumer video service
- Build out and maintain new telemetry tooling, for monitoring and observability, across all services.
- Respond to emerging incidents, solve critical issues, and follow through with a plan for resolution or future mitigation
- Act as a SME on the Engineering Operations team, partnering with backend services teams and application teams, such as Roku or Android, to overcome challenges across all the platforms where stream our service
- Lead the development and implementation of observability pipelines for AdTech backend services in ECS, EKS and Lambda. Facilitated the migration and consolidation of multiple observability tools to Datadog while keeping vendor-neutrality by utilizing OpenTelemetry.
Director of Engineering /Principal Software Engineer
Sierra Labs
11.2017 - 12.2021
- Collaborates with the CTO and Product team in architecting and developing our MVPs. Managing development teams on both Los Angeles and Manila, Philippine offices. Leading the development of multiple product integrations with popular tools like Atlassian JIRA Server and Cloud, Google, AWS and Microsoft technologies.
- Tech Stack: NodeJS, Typescript, Postgres, TypeORM, NestJS, React/Angular, Java
- Cloud Infrastructure: AWS (ECS, RDS, Cloudfront, Cloudformation, Lambda, S3)
DevOps Consultant
SAFE Health Systems, Inc.
03.2020 - 08.2021
- Orchestrated data and infrastructure migration from Azure to AWS. Developed and maintained CI/CID pipelines for Java, .NET and NodeJS applications in a micro-services architecture deployed in AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).
- Developed terraform scripts for provisioning infrastructure and automating tenant deployments in a SAAS platform. Administered data stores in RDS and MongoDB Atlas, spear-headed integration with Authentication and Identity Providers like Auth0 and Ping Federate.
- Tech Stack used: Serverless, Java (Springboot), Kubernetes, .NET Core, Docker, Kustomize, React, MongoDB, Terraform, ArgoCD/Spinnaker
- Integrations: Auth0, MongoDB Atlas, PING Federate, CircleCI
- Cloud Infrastructure: AWS (EKS, RDS, Lambda, Route53, ElasticCache, EC2, ECR, VPC, EC2, ELB, EBS, Auto Scaling, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, CloudFront, S3, IAM, SNS, EFS, Elastic Beanstalk, ACM, LightSail, Cognito) and Microsoft Azure
DevOps Consultant
Brain Corp
10.2019 - 03.2020
- Designed and developed CI/CD pipelines for NodeJS applications deployed on Kubernetes in a cloud agnostic approach.
Director of Technology /Lead Software Engineer
Science 37
05.2016 - 12.2017
- Lead the development of telehealth/telemedicine applications for web and mobile as well as corporate and marketing websites. Core developer of NORA platform and Paddington. Managed engineering team in Los Angeles and Manila, Philippines.
- Tech Stack used: NodeJS, Loopback, MySQL, Angular, Wordpress for marketing websites, Objective-C and Android for Mobile apps
- Integrations: Facebook lead generation, Google Auth, WebRTC
- Cloud Infrastructure: EC2, RDS, S3, Dynamo DB, ElasticCache, ECS, Cloudfront on AWS
Chief Technology Officer
ISBX
07.2013 - 11.2016
- Co-founder and CTO of ISBX Philippines
- Oversee day to day operations of Philippine offshore team
Co-Founder, President and CEO
ISBX
11.2009 - 07.2013
- Co-founder and CTO of ISBX Philippines
- Oversee day to day operations of Philippine offshore team
Technical Manager
BIG Interactive
08.2008 - 10.2009
- Lead the entire offshore team, providing mentorship and guidance to senior and junior developers that supported the different development teams in Los Angeles, CA.
- Handled multiple projects simultaneously from design, development and deployment, tech stack used ranged from ASP.NET, C#, SQL Server, Flash, Silverlight, IIS, AJAX and for open source projects Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP.
Technical Lead
BIG Interactive
08.2007 - 08.2008
- Lead the architecture design, execution and documentation of multiple projects that serviced our US Clients like Honda, Anheuser Busch, Sony Pictures.
- Responsibility included traveling to the US multiple times a year to physically meet with clients and collaborate with the engineering team in Los Angeles, CA.
- Developed the core library used in the company's content management system that became the publishing mechanism for majority of the websites produced for clients.
Senior Web Developer
BIG Interactive
08.2006 - 08.2007
Web Developer
BIG Interactive
02.2006 - 08.2006
Technical Support Representative
eTelecare Global Solutions
01.2004 - 01.2005
- Gained valuable customer service experience and problem solving skills by providing technical support to Dell Premium Enterprise clients across the US
- Became a Dell Certified Systems Expert and further improved knowledge and expertise in Computer Hardware and Operating Systems support.
Junior Data Engineer
International Logging
01.2003 - 01.2004
- As a Data Engineer, I was setting up and monitoring sensors in an Oil Exploration Drilling Rig. Operating a Drill Logic System that store data in SQL Server captured in real time from different sensors installed in different areas of the Rig.
- Collected physical samples of drill artifacts that are examined by the Chief Geologist.
- Deployed to different locations like Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Uzbekistan.
Computer Programmer II
University of the Philippines
01.2001 - 01.2003
- Served as the Webmaster, IT Manager and Systems Administrator for the National Institute of Geological Sciences, College of Science at the University of the Philippines
Web Developer / Instructor
NTSS-TEAMS
03.2001 - 09.2001
- Trained in Web Design and Development, Systems Design and Architecture, Data Modeling using UML tools. Micorosoft NT Backoffice administration.
- Developed web applications both for in-house and for clients using classic ASP, VB, MSSQL. As an instructor, developed training modules for HTML, ASP, MSSQL and other RDBMS and conducted trainings for enrolled students and new hires.
Education
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) - Geology/Earth Science, General
University of the Philippines
Diliman, Quezon City, PhilippinesBachelor of Science (B.S.) - Geology/Earth Science, General
University of the Philippines
01.2000
Skills
- Observability
- Platform Engineering
- Helm Charts
- Terraform
- OpenTelemetry
- Prometheus
- Continuous integration and deployment
- Microservices architecture
- Service Mesh (Istio)
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
- Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, OKE)
- Open Policy Agent (OPA)
- Cloud computing expertise
Certification
- Statistics Foundations 1: The Basics
- Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure
- OPA Policy Authoring
Personal Information
Title: Lead Software Engineer, Platform Reliability Operations Engineering
Company
Pluto TV, Paramount Skydance Corporation
Languages
Filipino
Native or Bilingual
English
Full Professional
Timeline
Lead Software Engineer
Pluto TV / Paramount Skydance
01.2024 - Current
Senior Software Engineer
Pluto TV / Paramount Skydance
08.2021 - 01.2024
DevOps Consultant
SAFE Health Systems, Inc.
03.2020 - 08.2021
DevOps Consultant
Brain Corp
10.2019 - 03.2020
Director of Engineering /Principal Software Engineer
Sierra Labs
11.2017 - 12.2021
Director of Technology /Lead Software Engineer
Science 37
05.2016 - 12.2017
Chief Technology Officer
ISBX
07.2013 - 11.2016
Co-Founder, President and CEO
ISBX
11.2009 - 07.2013
Technical Manager
BIG Interactive
08.2008 - 10.2009
Technical Lead
BIG Interactive
08.2007 - 08.2008
Senior Web Developer
BIG Interactive
08.2006 - 08.2007
Web Developer
BIG Interactive
02.2006 - 08.2006
Technical Support Representative
eTelecare Global Solutions
01.2004 - 01.2005
Junior Data Engineer
International Logging
01.2003 - 01.2004
Web Developer / Instructor
NTSS-TEAMS
03.2001 - 09.2001
Computer Programmer II
University of the Philippines
01.2001 - 01.2003
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) - Geology/Earth Science, General
University of the Philippines
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) - Geology/Earth Science, General
University of the Philippines