Radamanthus Batnag is a Senior Software Engineer with 16 years of hands-on experience building and operating full-stack Rails applications, now contributing at GitLab from Quezon City. He blends backend Rails expertise with strong DevOps chops—maintaining production Chef recipes for Engine Yard and integrating monitoring tools like Datadog and Papertrail for resilient platforms. Throughout roles at Shogun, TradeGecko, and as an independent consultant, he has focused on performance, scalability and customer-facing support, often partnering directly with founders and support teams to deliver practical fixes. Equally comfortable shipping product MVPs for NGOs and hardening infrastructure for scale, he’s known as “nice to work with” while tackling complex systems like Redis, Sidekiq, Elasticsearch and Solr. Currently pursuing a PhD in Data Science at UP Diliman, he pairs deep practical experience with growing research-driven insights.
15 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Data Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Data Science at University of the Philippines Diliman
A starter repo for custom chef recipes on EY's cloud platform. These are for reference, and do not indicate a supported status.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
Contributions:108 commits, 69 PRs, 87 pushes in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Radamanthus primarily focused on configuring and maintaining the infrastructure for the Engine Yard cloud platform. They made changes to recipes related to Redis, Solr, and Elasticsearch, updating versions, adjusting configurations, and integrating monitoring tools like Papertrail and Datadog. Their contributions also included setting up a custom proxy with Tinyproxy and improvements to the Sidekiq and Delayed Job setups.
A template project for building games using AnscaMobile's Corona SDK
Contributions:51 commits in 1 year 10 months
gamegamescorona-sdksdkgame-development
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Radamanthus Batnag - Senior Software Engineer at GitLab