Summary
Ariel Tamayo is a product-focused full stack engineer and people leader with 11 years of experience building and shipping web applications from prototype to production. Based in Pasay, Philippines, he currently manages a close-knit team at Thinking Machines Data Science where he combines hands-on engineering as a Product Engineer with managerial responsibilities since 2020. His background spans startups and consultancy roles—doing everything from client discovery and feature scoping to deployment and server maintenance—giving him a practical, product-first perspective. A cum laude Electronics and Communications graduate from the University of the Philippines, he brings deep technical rigor and a knack for translating messy requirements into clean, deliverable features. Colleagues describe his team as kind, brilliant, talented, and weird—a hint at the collaborative, human-centered culture he cultivates.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Philippine Science High School
BS, Electronics and Communications Engineering, cum laude, BS, Electronics and Communications Engineering, cum laude at University of the Philippines