Hi, I'm Arpee Ong

DevOps Engineer

About Arpee.

I am passionate about deconstructing and learning how things work, and optimize and improve from that point, that is how I landed a technical lead DevOps role despite being initially hired as a software developer and having a totally unrelated educational background.

In all companies that I joined, I integrate the work to my lifestyle and make it a day-to-day responsbility, like a child-project that I own and religiously lookout for.

I love solving problems, and I am relentless while at it.

Expertise

Server Administration

Well-adept with managing Linux/Unix servers and underlying services such as Nginx, Apache, MySQL, Redis, Solr, NewRelic, Elastic Stack (AWS), Docker etc.

Automation

Experienced with using DevOps automation and deployment tools such as Terraform (with AWS), Chef, Puppet, Ansible, AWS CodeDeploy, Jenkins etc.

Application Performance Tuning

Ready to deep dive from infrastructure/services to application levels to diagnose issues and optimize runtime.

R&D

Possess high aptitude and can easily ease-in to use new technologies.

Work Experience

2018 - Present

Innovator, DevOps Henchman

Innovation Love Inc.

Pasig, Philippines

  • Designed the web and native applications deployment, and infrastructure auto-scaling.
  • Does day-to-day monitoring and performance tuning, also writing adhoc features and bug-fixing.
2010 - 2019

Operations Engineering Technical Lead

Sulit.com.ph / OLX Philippines / Carousell

Pasig, Philippines

  • Prepared the underlying application code for horizontal scaling.
  • Successfully migrated an application running on bare-metal servers up to AWS Cloud Infrastructure.
  • Does day-to-day monitoring and performance tuning, also writing adhoc features and bug-fixing.
2005 - 2006

Research Assistant / IT Consultant

Aklan State University

Banga, Aklan

  • Introduced open source solutions to the department.
  • Managed the CMS and servers running the Research Department Website.
2006 - 2010

Lead Software Developer

SysIQ

Kiev, Ukraine

  • Wrote the company ERP/CRM system and managed the code and running server.

Education

2001 - 2005

Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, Major in Agricultural Engineering

Aklan State University

Banga, Aklan

Interest

Technology

Always on the lookout for new problem-solving tech and learning them, current obsessions range from scripting languages, ethical hacking to hardware.

Music

Living a double life as a DevOps engineer and a professional DJ.

Sports/Athletics

Sportsbiker and Crossfit freak.