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Joseph Paulo L. Mantuano

Software Engineer • Elastic Community Organizer • Based in Pasig City, Philippines

Solutions-driven software and data engineering leader with over 10 years of experience designing and scaling distributed systems in banking, telecommunications, and compliance. Focused on real-time event streaming, Lucene-based search engines, and modern lakehouse architectures.

Production Scale Footprint

9 TB/day
Kafka Ingestion Volume
495 MB/s
Average Streaming Throughput
30d → 1h
Elasticsearch Index Rebuild
50% Cut
ETL Operational Cost

Professional Experience

Data Architect

Security Bank Corporation
Nov 2023 — Present
  • Architected modern enterprise data lakehouse and warehouse solutions leveraging Apache Iceberg, Apache Spark, AWS DataZone, and Amazon Redshift.
  • Established an enterprise data observability platform, profiling query usage, optimizing cloud spend, and identifying unoptimized workloads.
  • Provided technical oversight for data governance, access controls, and banking compliance standards.

Senior Manager / Data Engineering Manager (Data Streaming)

Globe Telecom — Enterprise Data Office
Nov 2019 — Nov 2023
  • Managed high-throughput event streaming platform processing 9TB daily data volume with an average throughput of 495 MB/s.
  • Led the enterprise platform migration from on-premise Confluent clusters to Confluent Cloud.
  • Migrated legacy Spark Extract & Load pipelines to Apache NiFi, cutting pipeline development time from 3 days to half a day and reducing operational costs by 50%.
  • Built integration framework connecting AWS residing workloads to Kerberized Kafka clusters.

Senior Software Engineer (Search & Crawling)

The Red Flag Group (now Refinitiv)
Oct 2016 — Oct 2019
  • Engineered news content web crawlers and automated adverse media ingestion pipelines, reducing third-party data reliance.
  • Tuned Elasticsearch indexing pipelines for name-centric search, reducing full-index regeneration from 30 days down to 1 hour with a 100% capacity boost.
  • Developed scalable Kafka and MongoDB data aggregation platforms with pluggable enrichment processors.

Software Engineer (R&D eCommerce Search)

Infor PSSC
Jun 2014 — Oct 2016
  • Implemented enterprise full-text search and multi-tenant architectures using Apache Solr and ZooKeeper.
  • Applied natural language processing (NLP) to parse user query intent and improve e-commerce product discovery precision.

Software Engineer

Misys Plc (now Finastra)
Jan 2011 — Jun 2014
  • Built enterprise core banking interfaces for Midasplus on IBM WebSphere Application Server.
  • Created automated tooling and test environments, minimizing bug resolution turnaround for global banking clients.

Education & Community

De La Salle Lipa
Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering (2008)
Elasticsearch Community
Certified Elastic Community Organizer