Gyles Polloso
Lead Software Engineer at FirstCape
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolGyles Polloso is a Lead Software Engineer based in Wellington with over 13 years of hands-on experience delivering enterprise-grade systems across finance, aviation, healthcare, digital media, and networking. He combines full-stack development, cloud engineering, DevOps, and test automation to build high-availability, scalable services with a strong emphasis on clean, testable designs and TDD. Gyles has led multi-team development efforts, bootstrapped greenfield cloud-native services, and supported complex on-premise-to-cloud migrations, demonstrating both technical depth and operational ownership. He’s comfortable across the stack—from middleware and payments integrations to production deployments—and brings a pragmatic, startup-minded approach to solving elasticity and reliability challenges. An unconventional strength is his background in electronics and embedded-focused roles, which gives him a systems-oriented perspective when designing software for critical domains.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Electronics, Electronics at Don Bosco Technical College, MandaluyongBachelor of Science (BS), Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electronics and Communications Engineering at De La Salle University
Github Skills (20)
javascript10
api-platform10
npm10
api-client10
npm-package10
api10
rest-api10
nodejs10
curl10
api-design9
insomnia9
websocket9
rest9
http-client9
grpc9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
gyles/tour-of-heroes-refresher
Jul 2019 - Oct 2020
Contributions:7 PRs, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
incognitos/common
Sep 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 1 month
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