Curriculum Vitae of Michael

A Microsoft Certified Professional with 20+ years in IT, specializing in Software & Data Engineering and IT Architecture. Skilled across Application and Solution Architecture — Event-Driven Architecture, Microservices, Big-Data Interfaces & Data APIs, Data Mesh/Lake/Warehouse, RDBMS design, Data Integration Services, and Windows & Web application development.

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

Application & Solution Architecture

• Intermediate, target, and reference architecture
• Application architecture (vertical) and Solution architecture (horizontal)
• Architectural designs and principles
• Microservices and serverless
• Event-driven and Bulk architecture
• Cloud Computing, Big Data Design Principles

Technical Architecture

• Stakeholder management across the application lifecycle
• Operational technology (OT) compliance
• IT security compliance
• Disaster recovery planning (cloud & on-premises)
• Network and database management
• Service transitions for IT governance
• Technical recovery plans

Methodology

• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• Agile/Scrum practices
• Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

Software Engineering

• Design, development, testing, debugging, operations, and monitoring
• Software and database design principles (SOLID, KISS, DRY, Clean Code, etc.)
• Application design and architecture
• Boilerplates and libraries
• Design patterns and principles

Data Engineering

• Design, development, testing, debugging, operations, and monitoring
• End-to-end data pipelines
• Data-as-a-product and data products
• Data architecture and structuring
• Monitoring and insights
• Data lakes & warehouses, medallion architecture, data mesh

Artificial Intelligence

• Generative prompting
• Building AI skills
• Autonomous and agentic AI

TECHNOLOGICAL SKILLS

• Programming Languages: C#, Python, VB.NET, JavaScript, Ruby, TypeScript
• Service Orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker
• Database: SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL (Native, TSDB)
• Artifactory: Docker Hub, JFrog
• Release Workflow/Pipelines: Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, AppVeyor
• Cloud: GitHub, Azure Data Lake, Azure Data Warehouse, Confluent Kafka, Databricks, DataIKU
• AI: Claude (Fable, Sonnet, Haiku, Opus), ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek (OSS), Llama (OSS), Grok (X subscription)
• AI Orchestrator: Ollama, Microsoft Foundry
• Tools: Postman, SonarQube, ReSharper, SharpLab
• All Others: CSS, HTML5, Angular, jQuery, Jekyll, ASP.NET, MVC.NET, Windows Services, Containerized Jobs/Apps/Deployments

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

• Ørsted A/S – Gentofte, Denmark – Lead Application Architect / Solution Architect – JUL 2018 – PRESENT
• DONG Energy / Ørsted A/S – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – Lead Software Engineer – APR 2016 – JUL 2018
• BigBenta Corporation, Manila, Philippines – Creator & Chief Technical Architect – APR 2015 – OCT 2015 (6 months)
• Infor – Manila, Philippines – Principal Software Engineer – NOV 2009 – APR 2015 (5.5 years)
• Cloud Sherpas – Manila, Philippines – Developer – FEB 2009 – OCT 2009 (8 months)
• Accenture – Manila, Philippines – Software Engineer – NOV 2007 – FEB 2009 (1.5 years)
• Datascope Philippines – Manila, Philippines – Programmer – SEP 2006 – NOV 2007 (1 year)

TRAINING AND CONFERENCES

• Data as a Breakfast, Confluent, Copenhagen Denmark, 2026
• Microsoft AI Workshop, Lyngby Denmark, 2023
• Microsoft Synapse Data Warehouse Workshop, Copenhagen Denmark, 2023
• Event-Driven Design with KAFKA, Confluent, 2020
• Microsoft LEAP Conference, Bellevue, Washington, 2019
• Microsoft BUILD Conference, Seattle, Washington, 2018
• Microsoft Patterns and Practices, Lyngby, Denmark, 2018-2019
• Microsoft SQL Saturday, Lyngby, Denmark, 2018
• SAFe for Teams, Scaled Agile Framework, Lyngby, Denmark, 2018
• ITIL 4 Foundation, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, 2017

Plus many additional internal trainings.

TALKS

• PHINUG Online Dev Sessions – RepoDB ORM, a hybrid-ORM library for .NET, Manila, Philippines, 2021
• Dev Show: RepoDB, a hybrid-ORM library for .NET, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2021
• Brownbag: Introducing RepoDB, a new hybrid-ORM library for .NET, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2018

CERTIFICATIONS

• SAFe for Teams, Scaled Agile Framework / Professional Scrum Developer
• Academy Accreditation – Databricks Lakehouse Fundamentals
• Microsoft Technology Associate (HTML 5)
• Microsoft Certified Professional Developer - Enterprise Application (2 certifications)
• Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (Windows, Web, Distributed) (4 certifications)

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

• Employee Excellence Award - High-Flyers, Infor, Manila, Philippines, 2012
• Most Indispensable Employee, Infor, Manila, Philippines, 2012
• Best Programmer, Filamer Christian University, Roxas, Philippines, 2006
• Programmer of the Year, Filamer Christian University, Roxas, Philippines, 2003-2006