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Andy Pandaan

Andy Pandaan

Full Stack / DevOps / Tech

Dubai, AE
(971) 50-602-3991

Background


About

About

Engineer at The Executive Office of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai. I have fifteen years of experience in the tech industry. My work experience includes systems, network and cloud, Devops, IT management, and full stack web development. I also co-own a climbing gym in the Philippines called The Pump Factory.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Systems and Network Engineer, The Executive Office

    May, 2015 - Mar, 20248 years 10 months

    His Highness Sheikh Mohammed's office, TEO acts as an incubator for great ideas and nurtures them until they're mature enough to operate on their own.

    • Successfully deployed several government platforms in conjunction with the TEO team such as Smart Dubai, MBRMajlis, MBRCLD, Arab Strategy Forums, and Area2071 to name a few.

    • Migrated several on-prem development to the cloud to significantly cut expenses.

    • Carried out successful load tests, and penetration tests to finally achieve 10,000 concurrent connections on MBRMajlis pre-launch.

    • Initiated the containerization of several small projects to help achieve faster deployment turn-around time.

    • MBRMajlis - HH Sheikh Mohammed's virtual majlis lets people connect directly to different government entities. My involvement includes deployment and testing.

    • MBRCLD - The Mohammed Bin Rashid Center for Leadership and Development is an exclusive platform to nurture the emirate's future leaders. My role includes deployment, sizing, and containerization on some of its services.

    • Area2071 - An innovation ecosystem to bring together UAE's talents to work towards the 100th year of the union. I was involved in procuring technical services. Area2071 in now being managed by a different government entity.

  • System Administrator, Chronix Automotive Services

    Oct, 2012 - Dec, 20131 year 2 months

    Worked as a System Administrator at Chronix Automotive. A well-renowned auto-outfitter in Philippines

    • Windows Active Directory / Exchange

    • Sharepoint

    • Cisco stack

    • NagiOS

    • Fully Rearchitected the whole network infrastructure.

  • System and Network Engineer, Iplus Intelligent Networks

    Feb, 2010 - Aug, 20122 years 7 months

    Worked for a cruising company as Systems and Network Engineer.

    • Introduced a different ticketing system for filing technical issues.

    • Brainstormed campaign ideas to raise maximum awareness about latency issues between Regional offices and their fleet.

    • Monitored network connectivity, resource utilization, and security to avoid downtimes and other problems for the whole company ecosystem.

    • Automated the majority of repetitive tasks that consumes a significant amount of time of users through scripts.

  • Technical Support Engineer, TeleTech Management

    Feb, 2009 - Aug, 20086 months

    Acted as Technical Support for clients. The work also involved network monitoring, asset tracking, and software audits.

  • Desktop Engineer, Jardine Direct Company Inc.

    Oct, 2005 - Apr, 20071 year 6 months

    Worked as Desktop Support Engineer responsible for first level escalation support. Mostly dealt with desktop issues as well as AS400 operational issues.

Projects Experience

Projects Experience

  • The Pump Factory

    Jun, 2023 - Present

    The Pump Factory is a climbing gym I co-founded. Located in Iloilo city, Philippines.

    • Developed the Gym Management Solution system (PumpApp) written in Node and other JS frameworks.

    • Wrote the gym website using Astro JS.

Skills

Skills

  • Devops

    Terraform

    AWS

    Git

    Jenkins

    Ansible

    Docker

    Kubernetes

    Prometheus

    Grafana

  • Deployment

    Linux Servers

    Windows Servers

    Azure AD

    Azure

    Cisco

    Fortigate

    Bash

  • Development

    MERN

    Svelte / Sveltekit

    Apollo Server

    Urql

    GraphQL

    Astro

    HTML5 / CSS3 / Javascript

    Go

    HTMX

    Python

    Javascript Frameworks

    Backend frameworks

Education

Education

  • Computer Engineering, Bachelors, AMA Computer University

    Jun, 2000 - Dec, 2004

Certificates

Certificates

Interests

Interests

  • Climbing / Outdoors

  • AI / ML

  • DevOps

  • Web Development

  • Open Source