Rowell Belen
Head Of Product Platform
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolRowell Belen is a seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of experience building and operating resilient, serverless-first platforms across startups and enterprises. As Head of Product Platform at Veho, he leads Platform & Infrastructure, Data Platform, and Security teams while previously shaping core services and product-grade systems from architecture through long-term operations. He combines deep hands-on expertise across JVM, Node/TypeScript, Go, and cloud-native tooling with a track record of shipping developer-facing products like Serverless CI/CD and contributions that brought Java runtime support to the popular serverless-offline project. Comfortable switching between coding, hiring, and product strategy, Rowell excels at turning complex distributed-system requirements into pragmatic, scalable solutions. Based in Boulder, he pairs formal MIS training with a practical history of building event-driven, autoscaling systems for ML, EDI, and consumer logistics.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Management Information Systems, Masters, Management Information Systems at Florida State UniversityBS, Computer and Information Sciences, General, BS, Computer and Information Sciences, General at University of North Florida
English, Tagalog
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Github Skills (33)
javascript10
groovy10
clojure-cli10
aws-lambda10
java10
clojure10
javas10
serverless-framework10
serverless10
nodejs10
gradlew10
gradle10
testing9
back-end-development9
aws9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
serverless/serverless
Mar 2017 - Aug 2018
⚡ Serverless Framework – Effortlessly build apps that auto-scale, incur zero costs when idle, and require minimal maintenance using AWS Lambda and other managed cloud services.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 6 PRs, 8 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Rowell primarily focused on creating and modifying templates for serverless functions. They introduced and updated AWS Groovy Gradle and AWS Clojure Gradle templates, including the necessary build files, source code, and dependencies. Furthermore, the user enhanced the Groovy Gradle template by making the responses API Gateway compliant, and included updates for the Clojurescript Gradle template. Finally, they also fixed missing files, showing a focus on the project's scaffolding and build process.
aws-lambdacloud-serviceslambdaserverless-frameworkserverless
dherault/serverless-offline
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
Emulate AWS λ and API Gateway locally when developing your Serverless project
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 8 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Rowell implemented Java runtime support for the serverless-offline project, enabling the local emulation of AWS Lambda functions written in Java. They added a Java runner to execute Java-based handlers and integrated a local Java invocation server for faster execution. Furthermore, the user expanded testing capabilities by incorporating integration tests for Java, Kotlin, Groovy, and Scala, ensuring the project's compatibility with multiple JVM-based languages. Finally, the user also improved the functionality of the project by bumping the version of the java-invoke-local dependency.
api-gatewayawsserverlessaws-lambdaaws-apigateway
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