Hello, I'm Lawrence

I am a cloud engineer, problem solver, system debugger, automation enthusiast, and lifelong learner.
This is my personal space, where I share my work and projects.

infrastructure.tf
# Deploying resilient infrastructure
resource "aws_instance" "web_server" {
  ami           = "ami-0c55b159cbfafe1f0"
  instance_type = "t3.medium"
  
  tags = {
    Name        = "production-web"
    Environment = "production"
    ManagedBy   = "terraform"
  }
}

About Me

Based in Manila, I bring 4 years of experience in ensuring systems stay operational at scale.

My journey has taken me from mainframe development at Accenture to cloud operations at TELUS, and now to traffic engineering at OpsWerks. Along the way, I've earned certifications in AWS and GCP, deployed infrastructure across continents, and learned that the best solutions often come at 3am with a fresh perspective.

This is my corner of the internet to document my work and share lessons learned from the front lines of site reliability engineering.

4+
Years Experience
6
Certifications
3
Companies

Work Experience

Site Reliability Engineer

OpsWerks Aug 2024 – Present

Traffic Engineering (Production & Non-Production Support)

  • Maintained reliability, performance, and scalability of large-scale traffic routing infrastructure for a Fortune 100 Fintech company
  • Diagnosed and resolved complex traffic routing issues across environments, ensuring end-to-end request integrity from L4 load balancers through L7 Envoy service mesh
  • Enhanced system observability by building custom alerts and dashboards in Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk
  • Maintained Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Terragrunt for scalable deployments
Key Accomplishment: China Deployment
  • Load Balancer Refresh: Contributed to migration from NetScaler to internal NGINX-based reverse proxy system
  • Hybrid Cloud Migration: Assisted in moving core payment applications to modern hybrid AliCloud architecture

Dev-to-Production (D2P) Support

  • Ensured operational health of non-production services in HashiCorp Nomad environment
  • Maintained high availability by responding to alerts and resolving resource contention issues

Operations Specialist III

TELUS International Philippines Aug 2023 – Aug 2024
  • Provided technical support for Google Cloud Platform products, solutions, and APIs
  • Identified and documented product bugs and feature requests
  • Worked at a senior level to improve cloud products, suggesting and implementing code changes
  • Achieved exceptional KPI scores with 3.53/4.0 average

Associate Software Engineer

Accenture Inc. Aug 2021 – Jan 2023
  • Handled service desk tickets using COBOL, JCL, and SQL through IBM DB2 Mainframe
  • Consistently exceeded daily ticket resolution targets
  • Served as functional tester, presenting test results directly to client executives

Technical Skills

Cloud Platforms

AWS (Solutions Architect) GCP (Cloud Architect)

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform Terragrunt Karpenter

Containerization

Kubernetes Docker Nomad

Monitoring & Observability

Prometheus Grafana Splunk

Networking & Service Mesh

Nginx NetScaler Consul Envoy TCP/IP DNS

Languages & OS

Python Bash SQL Linux macOS

Certifications

Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect

September 2024

Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer

March 2024

Licensed Electronics Engineer

April 2023

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

November 2022

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

October 2022

Civil Service Professional

May 2017

Get In Touch

I'm always interested in hearing about new opportunities and challenges. Feel free to reach out. :)