Ria Cataquian
Systems Developer at Brankas
Manila, Philippines
Summary
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Top SchoolRia Cataquian is a Systems Developer based in Manila with 11 years of hands-on experience building and migrating web applications and backend systems for startups and enterprise partners. Currently at Brankas, she focuses on reliable, production-ready systems and has a track record of moving legacy stacks to modern frameworks—such as migrating a Meteor.js app to React. Her resume spans roles at Concentrix (working alongside Google), Proudcloud, and Quickpage, reflecting strength in full-stack development and collaborative delivery. An active open-source contributor, she made notable back-end contributions to the widely used mvdan/sh project, adding interpreter tracing and cross-platform test fixes that improved portability and Bash compatibility. She combines practical engineering with a knack for improving tool reliability and developer workflows, and she shares technical writing and project work on GitHub and Medium.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's Degree, Information Technology at STI College Ortigas-Cainta
Github Skills (16)
sh10
script10
bash10
go10
interpreter10
scripting10
testing9
shell9
parser8
automation8
automations8
parserator8
formatters7
posix7
formatter7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mvdan/sh
Oct 2021 - Aug 2022
A shell parser, formatter, and interpreter with bash support; includes shfmt
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:53 reviews, 16 commits, 20 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Ria primarily contributed to the interpreter and related utilities for the `mvdan/sh` repository, focusing on implementing features related to shell command execution and debugging. Their work involved adding support for tracing (`set -x`) which required modifications in the `interp` package, including the `trace.go` file. Additionally, the user improved the test suite by addressing portability issues related to the `wc` and `touch` commands across different operating systems and also added features to support Bash's `select` clause.
a-shellposixbeautifiershfmtbeautify
riacataquian/news
Jul 2018 - Sep 2018
News is an API client for https://newsapi.org, later to be consumed by a frontend.
Contributions:60 commits, 20 PRs, 96 pushes in 2 months
api-clientapiconsumednewsapi-orgfrontend
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