L O A D I N G

About

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Hello! I’m Erwin Lomibao. I'm an experienced Information Technology Operations Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the online media industry. Among other things, I have a working knowledge of Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), MySQL, Varnish, Apache, lighttpd, and Nginx. Additional knowledge in PHP, Python, & NodeJS.

  • Name Erwin Lomibao
  • Work Experience 30 Years
  • Email elomibao@gmail.com

Strengths

Linux Administration

My first taste of Linux was in the mid 90s using Slackware Linux. I then moved to RedHat/CentOS and tried several other Linux flavors, including Mandrake, openSUSE, Linspire, Xandros, Engrade and Ubuntu. I also have experience with other Operating Systems like FreeBSD, Solaris, BeOS and QNX.

Web Hosting

My first foray into web was building CERN httpd from source. I eventualy moved to Apache and PHP. By 2008, I've moved Inquirer.net from Apache/PHP to Lighttpd/PHP. By 2009, Nginx was on the rise and stable enough that I moved all web properties to it. With Nginx, the Inquirer.net website at it's peak was serving 60-80 Million pageviews per month.

Systems Admin

At Mindgate Systems, I had the oppurtunity of being a part of releasing ground breaking services at that time. The highlight for me was the Multi-Link connection using two or more US Robotics dialup modems and the Lucent Portmaster. No other ISP nor Telco was offering it at that time.

Scripting

Automation is part of my work, having discovered scripting while building Linux kernel from patches released by Alan Cox. My final work for Inquirer.net is a script that processes the Philippine's local and national elections. The script, written in Python and using the Pandas library, processes the results that came in USB drives.

Projects & works that I've been a part of

Resume

Experience

  • Associate Director for IT Operations

    Jan 2020 - Dec 2023 Inquirer Interactive, Inc

    Started a project that caches WordPress pages and fetches them in Nginx
    Learned DART programming language and the Flutter framework to build a news reader app
    Learned Firebase for app analytics and push notification

  • IT Operations Manager

    Jun 2010 - Jan 2020 Inquirer Interactive, Inc

    Migrated legacy CMS to Wordpress
    Migrated Webserver from Lighttpd to Nginx
    Migrated infra from on-prem bare metal to Citrix XenServer

  • Systems Administrator

    Jun 2008 - May 2010 Inquirer Interactive, Inc

    Switched Webserver from Apache to Lighttpd

  • Linux and Systems Administrator

    1997 - 2008 Mindgate Systems, Inc

    PinoyStores.com: Online shopping featuring Philippine products
    PinoyBattle.net: First online prepaid gaming card

    Multi-Link: Dual modem Internet connection using US Robotics modems and Lucent Portmasters
    SpamStop: Subscription based Anti-Spam service
    VirusStop: Subscription based Anti-Virus service
  • Programmer

    1994 - 1996 University of the East, Caloocan

    Transcript of Records System
    Enhanced Enrolment System
    Expanded LAN using Novell Netware

Education

  • Google Cloud Digital Leading Training

    Aug 2022 Coursera | Google

  • Google IT Automation with Python

    Aug 2022 Coursera | Google

  • Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Science

    1989 - 1993 AMA University

    Wrote a program to control and record movements of a robotic arm

  • High School

    1986 - 1989 Ramon Magsaysay High School

  • Grade School

    1980 - 1986 GSIS Elementary School

Skills

Linux

91%

AWS:Lightsail,EC2,Route53,Cloudfront,RDS,etc

82%

Lighttpd/Nginx

94%

Skills

Networking

83%

VIM

75%

Troubleshooting

92%

Contact

Get In Touch

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