Leo Panerio
Binan, Laguna, Philippines · Remotely Working
Professional Summary
Software & Solutions Architect who bridges the gap between complex business requirements and highly scalable, production-ready engineering. I have dedicated the defining years of my career to CloudPay, architecting global Fintech SaaS platforms and leading AI-first transformations, building upon a rigorous foundation in high-frequency trading.
Operating with a high-agency mindset — taking absolute ownership of system architecture, team delivery, and cross-functional integration. As the APAC engineering leader for CloudPay, I oversee distributed teams across the region to ensure enterprise-grade, zero-downtime deployments.
I am brought in to accelerate time-to-market, architect secure revenue-generating features, and evolve legacy infrastructures into resilient, high-performance web products.
Technical Expertise
AWS (Lambda, RDS, S3, API Gateway), Docker, CI/CD, Microservices
Architecting zero-downtime, highly scalable environments optimized for rapid deployment.
Node.js (Arch Oversight), JavaEE, PostgreSQL, RESTful APIs, WebSockets
Engineering secure, low-latency financial routing and complex data processing.
LLM Implementation, Agentic Frameworks, Prompt Engineering
Transitioning legacy systems into modern, revenue-generating AI solutions.
React, Vue.js, Angular, TypeScript
Architectural code review and structural guidance for enterprise-grade UI performance.
High-agency ownership of SDLC, Agile/Scrum, Remote team mentorship
Leading distributed teams across the APAC region with strict code quality standards.
Professional Experience
- Fintech Solutions Architecture: Architect and own the end-to-end technical delivery of global payroll and payment processing platforms. Design complex PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and MariaDB database schemas to support high-volume, multi-market financial transactions.
- AI-Driven Revenue Initiatives: Lead the company's AI integration strategy. Build and deploy agentic frameworks and LLM-powered tools that directly upgrade legacy enterprise operations into highly competitive, client-facing solutions.
- Full-Stack Governance: Direct the architectural standards for frontend and backend engineering squads utilizing React, Node.js, Vue, Angular, Java, and Spring. Guarantee all system integrations meet rigorous enterprise security (OAuth, JWT) and low-latency performance standards.
- Cloud & CI/CD Optimization: Provision and scale cloud infrastructure on AWS. Collaborate closely with DevOps to eliminate deployment bottlenecks, optimize Docker containerization, and accelerate overall feature delivery.
- APAC Engineering Leadership: Manage, mentor, and establish technical roadmaps for a distributed team of Tech Leads and Software Engineers, cultivating a culture of high accountability and strict code quality.
- Took full operational ownership of software development, deployment pipelines, and DevOps infrastructure for business-critical, high-traffic travel SaaS applications.
- Led a cross-functional team, enforcing uncompromised code quality standards through strict code reviews, automated testing implementation, and resilient branching strategies.
- Executed aggressive database query optimizations and deep architectural refactoring, substantially driving down application response times and eliminating system instability.
- Engineered complex backend features and API integrations for enterprise B2B clients, successfully executing a massive on-site deployment for a Fortune 500 partner in China.
- Designed fault-tolerant data models and managed database transactions to ensure absolute data integrity across international environments.
- Delivered a highly critical software integration project against an aggressive timeline, directly resulting in the highest project ROI for the company in 2016.
- Architected backend services for an Online Live Casino platform, engineering real-time, high-availability data feeds for the front-end web team via RESTful frameworks.
- Implemented WebSocket integrations to sustain continuous, ultra-low-latency communication with overseas game server providers.
- Delivered Tier-2/Tier-3 engineering support and custom development for high-volume financial liquidity products (Appia, TradeScope, cRouter) utilized by top-tier global financial institutions.
- Diagnosed and resolved deeply complex architectural and data flow bottlenecks within multi-market, high-frequency trading platforms.
- Authored custom plugins and automated test scripts, guaranteeing strict adherence to the highest standards of financial security and execution speed.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
De La Salle University, Dasmariñas, Cavite, Philippines
Java Programming 1 and 2
Informatics Institute, Alabang, Philippines