Joemar Taganna
President & CEO at Paytaca
Tacloban, Philippines
Summary
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Top SchoolJoemar Taganna is a technopreneur and hands-on software leader with 14 years of experience spanning full-stack development, data science, cloud engineering, and computational biology. As Founder & Lead Programmer of SciBiz Informatics and President & CEO of Paytaca, he builds production-grade web and mobile systems—often in Python or Go—deployed on major clouds and focused on real-world impact like open-source Bitcoin Cash wallets. His background in comparative genomics and a PhD-level education in biotechnology inform a rigorous, data-driven approach to engineering and product design. He has led back-end architectures for crypto and fintech projects and created scalable web crawlers and analytics pipelines for businesses and research institutions. Known for blending scientific curiosity with pragmatic entrepreneurship, he routinely translates complex research problems into usable software that scales. Based in Tacloban, Philippines, he combines global client experience with a mission to use technology to improve lives.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Biotechnology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Biotechnology at Ghent UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Bioengineering Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Bioengineering Sciences at Vrije Universiteit BrusselMaster's degree Microbiology, Master's degree Microbiology at University of the Philippines
English, Filipino
Github Skills (96)
python10
vnc-client10
cryptocurrency10
rest-api10
wallet10
task-scheduler10
queue10
integrate10
bitcoin10
task-queue10
distributed-lock10
redis10
amqp10
webhooks10
task-manager10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
volentixlabsinc/venue-server
Oct 2017 - Jan 2019
The backend services for Venue, a community engagement platform for the Volentix community
Contributions:119 commits, 16 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 year 3 months
backend-servicesvenuebackendengagementcommunity-engagement
paytaca/watchtower-cash-js
May 2021 - Nov 2022
Library for building Javascript applications that integrate with Watchtower.cash
Contributions:35 releases, 83 commits, 12 PRs in 1 year 5 months
javascriptcryptocurrencyjavascript-applicationsintegratecash
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