Summary
Hapal Hapal is a Senior Platform Engineer based in Wellington, New Zealand with eight years focused on DevOps, cloud-native platforms and automation. He has practical end-to-end experience modernizing legacy architectures—migrating Ubuntu VM workloads into Kubernetes, moving KOPS clusters to EKS, and standing up CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and Concourse. Strong in Terraform-driven IaC, AWS services and cluster operations, he has also created developer workspace templates to speed onboarding and improve team productivity. Earlier roles sharpened his observability and deployment automation skills with ELK, Filebeat, Datadog, and Kafka, and his background in Java and big-data pre-sales gives him a pragmatic systems design perspective. Colleagues know him as an SME who bridges hands-on platform work with developer experience improvements that deliver measurable operational gains.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Electronics and Communications Engineering at Ateneo de Manila University