Lloyd Cabancla
Software Engineer at Block
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolLloyd Cabancla is a polyglot software engineer with a decade of experience building high-performance backend systems and scalable distributed services, currently focusing on Cash App availability at Block. He combines hands-on system programming in Java, C++, Scala and Python with expertise in concurrency, async patterns, caching and reactive architectures to optimize throughput and latency. Lloyd has served as tech lead and scrum master across major platforms at Amazon, eBay and PayPal, driving domain ownership for analytics/SEO and delivering mission-critical European payments projects. His academic pedigree includes a full ASEAN scholarship to NUS for a Master’s in Computer Engineering and top honors from the University of the Philippines, reflecting a strong foundations in both theory and practice. Comfortable across SOA/REST, Spring/Akka, and performance testing frameworks, he also brings practical experience integrating teams and code during complex releases. Beyond typical backend work, Lloyd’s profile shows a consistent focus on availability and reliability engineering for consumer finance at scale.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Electrical Engineering major in Computer Engineering, Master's degree, Electrical Engineering major in Computer Engineering at National University of SingaporeBachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at University of the Philippines
Github Skills (42)
mysql10
locking10
scaling10
dynamodb10
distributed-locking10
clustering10
horizontal-scaling9
kubernetes9
sql9
scale9
vitess9
database9
database-cluster9
serverless8
vault8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lcabancla/problems
Jul 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:333 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
lcabancla/misk
Jan 2020 - Sep 2024
Microservice Kontainer
Contributions:6 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 8 months
dockermicroservicemicroservices
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