Rey Babilonia
Principal Software Engineer at BlinkPay
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolRey Babilonia is a Principal Software Engineer and Cloud Architect based in Auckland with over two decades of experience designing enterprise and distributed systems and a decade of hands-on senior engineering roles. An AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional and DevOps Engineer – Professional, he has repeatedly architected cloud-first solutions for identity, payments, and healthcare systems, often leading distributed teams across Asia. Rey blends deep Java and microservices expertise with practical integration patterns—IPFS, Hyperledger Fabric, message-driven architectures and APM-led performance tuning—and has a track record of eradicating production bottlenecks during high-traffic events. He moves fluidly between CTO-level strategy and implementation, from piloting systems across 10 countries to building virtual internet cafe platforms, and is comfortable managing both monolith-to-microservice transitions and high-availability messaging systems. Notably, his background includes publishing research-grade HPC work and shaping company-wide architecture standards, reflecting a mix of academic rigor and pragmatic engineering.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MTM, Technology Management, MTM, Technology Management at University of the Philippines
English, Tagalog, bicolano
Stackoverflow
16reputation
311reached
2answers
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Github Skills (67)
in-progress9
api8
rest8
jetty8
dropwizard8
jax-rs8
open-banking8
hibernate8
java8
rest-api7
manual-testing7
jersey7
servlet7
jdbi7
restful7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
vincenzolabs/PayMaya-Java-Spring-SDK
Jun 2021 - Mar 2023
The PayMaya client library using Java 15 and Spring 5.
Contributions:11 releases, 6 PRs, 28 pushes in 1 year 10 months
client-librarypaymayaspringspring-5java-15
BlinkPay/Blink-Debit-API-Client-DotNet
Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:10 releases, 29 PRs, 28 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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