Carlos Canonizado
Technical Lead at Spotify
Philippines
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolCarlos Canonizado is a Technical Lead and senior software engineer with eight years of experience building customer-facing web and extension products, most recently scaling Apollo.io’s Chrome Extension from 20k to over 600k installs and now leading engineering at First Mate Technologies. Based in the Philippines, he blends hands-on frontend expertise (React, design systems) with product-focused leadership, having driven feature delivery and migrations across large SaaS stacks. Beyond engineering, Carlos is an active content creator, certified freediver and musician who leverages social platforms like TikTok, YouTube and Spotify to engage audiences and grow brand partnerships. He brings a pragmatic, growth-oriented mindset—equally comfortable optimizing adoption metrics as mentoring teams—and maintains a public presence under CholoCMC that surfaces technical work, creative projects, and community collaborations.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of the Philippines Los Baños
Github Skills (8)
outlook8
gcal8
calendar-widget8
lit1
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firebase1
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firestore1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ccanonizado/super-smash-bros
Oct 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:95 commits, 41 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
yses2005/frontend-day-1
Jul 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:19 reviews, 1 push, 2 branches in 12 days
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