Summary
Joshua Manlunas is a Software Engineering Specialist based in Sydney with a strong track record of delivering full-stack, enterprise-grade applications and test automation across finance. With 8+ years of hands-on experience and a 12-year engineering mindset, he architects scalable systems using Java, Spring Boot, React and Node.js while driving CI/CD and cloud-native practices on AWS, Docker and Kubernetes. He champions quality through automated testing (Playwright, Jest), code reviews and pipeline optimization, consistently shaving deployment times and boosting team velocity. At Westpac he has led AI-powered internal tooling to automate workflows and accelerate the software lifecycle, bringing practical ML/automation into production. A mentor to junior engineers, Joshua blends technical rigor with people-focused leadership and a curious, multidisciplinary background that includes audio engineering, film, and economics. His GitHub ethos—an “endless pursuit of knowledge”—underscores a continuous learning approach that fuels pragmatic innovation.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Economics, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Economics at Xavier University Ateneo de Cagayan
Certificate, Audio Engineering and Music Production, Certificate, Audio Engineering and Music Production at Music and Audio Institute of New Zealand
Bachelor of Information Technology, Bachelor of Information Technology at Wellington Institute of Technology
English, Filipino