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Software Developer in Los Baños, Philippines

Glend Dale Ferrer

I build reliable, scalable backend systems and the tools that ship them.

Software developer with 4 years of experience designing backend services, integrations, and developer tooling. Focused on clean architecture, maintainable code, and shipping software teams can rely on.

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  1. 000roleroleComputer Programmer II, UP Los Baños
  2. 001focusfocusBackend services, REST APIs, event-driven integrations
  3. 002experienceexperience4+ years across 3 roles
  4. 003oss.packageoss.packagegurento/kafka-consumer
  5. 004projectsprojects7 shipped, from Kafka plugins to lake monitoring
  6. 005educationeducationMS Computer Science
  7. 006locationlocationPhilippines
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About

Currently Computer Programmer II

Software developer with 4 years of experience designing backend services, integrations, and developer tooling. Focused on clean architecture, maintainable code, and shipping software teams can rely on.

Over the past 4+ years I’ve worked across the stack: backend systems, database architecture, RESTful APIs, event-driven integrations, and the internal tools that help teams move faster. I like owning a system from first design through deployment and the improvements that follow, with a strong focus on maintainability, reliability and clear architecture.

I care about developer experience too, and contribute back to the open-source tools and libraries I use every day.

Based in
Philippines
Experience
4+ years
Projects
7 shipped
Trainings
10 attended or led

Backend and APIs

Laravel services, RESTful APIs and the data models behind them, built to be read and changed by the next developer.

Event-driven integration

Kafka producers and consumers that let institutional systems talk to each other without hard dependencies.

Shipping and running it

Docker environments, deployments, server configuration and monitoring once the code is in production.

Experience

3 roles, 2021 to 2026

  1. 2025 — 2026

    Current

    Computer Programmer II

    University of the Philippines - Los Baños, Los Baños, Laguna

    • Lead developer of BIDANI-BMIS since Feb 2026: a multi-tenant Laravel, Filament and PostgreSQL platform for LGU household surveys covering 27,000+ households in its largest deployment.
    • Developed and maintained RESTful APIs and backend services for university systems and applications.
    • Built and maintained React-based interfaces integrated with backend APIs and internal services.
    • Handled DevOps workflows including containerization, deployment, server configuration, and system monitoring.
  2. 2023 — 2025

    Senior ICT Assistant

    University of the Philippines - Los Baños, Los Baños, Laguna

    • Developed and maintained RESTful APIs supporting multiple web applications and internal systems.
    • Implemented React-based frontend components and integrated them with backend services.
    • Supported DevOps operations including application deployment, Docker-based environments, and production monitoring.
  3. 2021 — 2023

    Science Aide

    Laguna State Polytechnic University - Los Baños Campus, Los Baños, Laguna

    • Developed and maintained E-SENTRY, a web-based water quality monitoring system for Tadlac Lake, Los Baños.
    • Designed and implemented data processing workflows for collecting, managing, and analyzing water quality data.
    • Collaborated with researchers to translate monitoring and research requirements into functional system features.

Education

2 degrees

2023 — 2026

Master of Science in Computer Science

Technological Institute of the Philippines - Manila

Relevant coursework: Data Structures & Algorithms, Databases, Software Engineering.

2018 — 2021

Bachelor of Science in Information Technology

Laguna State Polytechnic University - Los Baños Campus

Trainings

10 sessions, 3 as resource person

2026

  • Web Based Geo-Spatial Information System

    University of the Philippines - Los Baños

    Attended

2025

  • Navigating the UPLB SALN System

    University of the Philippines - Los Baños

    Resource person
  • BIDANI BMIS Training

    University of the Philippines - Los Baños

    Resource person
  • PAVE and HR Application Training

    University of the Philippines - Los Baños

    Resource person

2024

  • Computer Vision Master Class

    Udemy

    Attended

2023

  • Research Methodologies for Socio-economic Impact Evaluation of Livelihood

    Laguna State Polytechnic University

    Attended
  • Machine Learning for Water and Environmental Monitoring

    UP Diliman, QC

    Attended
  • Through the Lenses of TSIS: Managing the Eutrophic Condition of Laguna Lake

    UP Diliman, QC

    Attended

2022

  • 8th Basic GIS Training

    GRIDS

    Attended
  • Start Hackathon 2022: Innovative Solutions toward Smart and Creative Communities

    DAP Conference Center Tagaytay

    Attended

Projects

Open the details on any card for the full list of what I built

Open sourceCreator & Maintainer

Filament Kafka Consumer

An open-source Filament plugin that integrates Apache Kafka consumer capabilities directly into the Filament admin panel, allowing developers and administrators to consume, monitor, inspect, and troubleshoot Kafka messages without relying on separate Kafka management tools.

PHPLaravelFilamentApache KafkaEvent-Driven ArchitectureComposer
InstitutionalSole Developer

E-SENTRY

A web-based environmental monitoring and data management platform developed for Tadlac Lake, Los Baños. The system centralizes water quality measurements and provides researchers with tools for storing, processing, reviewing, and analyzing monitoring data through a dedicated web interface.

PHPLaravelMySQLREST API+2
InstitutionalBackend DeveloperAug 2024 — Present

Procurement Assistance Verification Environment (PAVE)

UPLB's procurement and financial processing platform, replacing paper routing for the whole procurement chain: Project Procurement Management Plans (PPMP) roll up into the Annual Procurement Plan, then move on to Purchase Requests, Purchase Orders with their BURS/ORS budget obligations, and Disbursement Vouchers through payment. Every document follows a configurable multi-level approval workflow with remarks, an audit trail and generated PDF forms, across four role-based panels. PAVE also publishes its core records to the university's Kafka event bus and exposes REST endpoints for other campus systems.

commits, top contributor
1,490+
role-based panels
4
approval stages
13
PHPLaravelFilamentMySQL+6
InstitutionalLead DeveloperFeb 2026 — Present

BIDANI-BMIS

A multi-tenant management information system for the UPLB BIDANI (Barangay Integrated Development Approach for Nutrition Improvement) Network Program. Local government units use it to collect household and family survey data and turn it into community profiles, dashboards and PDF reports for barangay planning. Each office in the province, city/municipality and barangay hierarchy sees only its own data and the offices below it, and field enumerators collect surveys on the web or on an offline mobile app that syncs through a secure API.

households in one deployment
27k+
commits
700+
modules built
18
PHPLaravelFilamentLivewire+6
InstitutionalMobile Developer

BIDANI-BMIS Mobile

A native Android companion application for BIDANI-BMIS designed for field-based barangay and household data collection. The application enables field personnel to conduct surveys even with limited connectivity and synchronize collected information with the centralized BIDANI-BMIS backend when network access becomes available. Each tablet enrolls with a code issued from the web platform and syncs through a token-secured API, so administrators can revoke or reinstate a device and monitor its sync activity.

KotlinAndroidREST APILaravel Sanctum+3
PersonalSole Developer

Piso-WiFi System

A Raspberry Pi-based coin-operated Wi-Fi hotspot system that combines embedded hardware, Linux networking, a Flask web application, and session management to provide prepaid internet access. Users can insert coins to receive time-based Wi-Fi access while the system manages connectivity, sessions, payments, and network access through a captive portal.

PythonFlaskSQLiteRaspberry Pi+4
PersonalSole Developer & Researcher

Real-Time Object Detection using Faster R-CNN with Kalman Filter

A computer vision and object tracking system developed as a thesis project that combines Faster R-CNN-based object detection with Kalman Filter-based temporal tracking. The system processes sequential video frames, detects objects, associates detections across time, and uses temporal predictions to improve tracking consistency and object monitoring.

PythonPyTorchFaster R-CNNKalman Filter+6

What I built

    Stack

    Tech stack

    25 tools I use day to day

    Languages

    • PHP4 projects
    • JavaScript
    • TypeScript

    Frameworks

    • Laravel5 projects
    • Filament3 projects
    • Livewire2 projects
    • Alpine.js
    • Leaflet1 project
    • Astro

    Databases

    • MySQL2 projects
    • PostgreSQL1 project
    • Redis1 project

    Infrastructure

    • Docker1 project
    • Kafka2 projects
    • AWS
    • Nginx
    • MinIO1 project

    Tools

    • Git1 project
    • GitHub Actions1 project
    • Postman
    • PHPUnit1 project

    Automation

    • Supervisor
    • Cron Jobs
    • Queue Workers
    • Python Scripts