Summary
Israel Canasa is a tech entrepreneur and Chief Technology Officer with 11 years of professional experience building secure, scalable software and leading product-driven engineering teams from Metro Manila. As founder of Creatizens Corp and WIZMEDIA and co-founder/CTO of Turfspace and PISOMIND, he has led architecture, DevOps, and UX strategy while turning internal product ideas into commercial platforms like a property management suite and a secure e-wallet adopted by banks and gas stations. He combines hands-on engineering with startup operations—pitching, fundraising, client onboarding, and team building—so technical decisions are tightly aligned with business outcomes. His background includes legacy-to-modern migrations and PHP/web platform rewrites, reflecting comfort across full-stack web systems and long-term product maintenance. Known for incubating developer talent through repeat ventures, he prioritizes best practices, extensibility, and cost-saving automations that directly improve client profitability. Based in the Philippines, he blends practical engineering craft with an operator’s mindset to deliver measurable ROI through technology.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Adventist University of the Philippines