Robbie Marcelo
Engineering Manager at Rakuten
Minato, Japan
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolRobbie Marcelo is an engineering leader and founder with 13 years of experience building highly available, secure, and cost-optimized systems across ticketing, healthcare, fintech, and edtech. He combines hands-on engineering in Ruby, JavaScript, and Go with leadership roles as CTO of AKARU and Engineering Manager at Manabie and Rakuten, shaping reliability and delivery culture across teams. As a former Lead SRE, he has strong expertise in operationalizing resilient services and scaling global platforms. Born in the Philippines and now running a Kyoto-based software lab, he brings an entrepreneurial lens to product and platform trade-offs. Colleagues know him as a pragmatic problem solver—“Code Astronaut” on GitHub—who balances craftsmanship with practical business impact.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Computer Engineering, Diploma, Computer Engineering at Polytechnic University of the Philippines
English, Filipino, Japanese
Github Skills (77)
javascript9
charts9
helm9
npm9
httparty9
npm-cli9
slack-api9
nodejs9
cornerstone8
cli8
api8
medical-imaging8
k8s8
pnpm8
docker8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rbmrclo/project-csa
Mar 2018 - Apr 2019
Notes for AWS Cramming
Contributions:2 PRs, 124 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 1 month
notesaws
rbmrclo/project-omega
Feb 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:105 commits, 20 PRs, 31 pushes in 29 days
as-codeomega
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