Alvin Robles Terrible

Senior Software Engineer | AI Engineering Lead

Email: alvin@terrible.nz

Phone: (+64) 2 2681 3404

Location: Hamilton, New Zealand

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alvin-terrible-66b60341/

Experience: 18.1+ years

Professional Summary

Senior Software Engineer and Team Lead with 18.1+ years of experience across Telecommunications, Banking, Insurance, Software, Physical Security. Proven expertise in architecting systems, leading cross-functional teams, and driving end-to-end project delivery using modern technologies including TypeScript & React, C# / .NET, AI Tooling (Copilot, Claude), Azure Services.

Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer - Frontend

August 2024 - Current

Gallagher Security

Building frontend features on Command Centre Web as part of the Experience Modernisation Web Client team, using TypeScript and React. Acting as the team AI Subject Matter Expert, coaching and mentoring engineers on GitHub Copilot and Claude Code to improve developer productivity and code quality. Built and maintains a personal AI tooling ecosystem: 40+ custom slash commands, 30+ reusable skills, and hooks for Claude Code automating PR review, spec management, and CI preflight checks.

Tech: TypeScript, React, Angular, Nx, GitHub Actions, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code

Senior Developer

June 2023 - August 2024

Enlighten Designs Limited

Lead the project that uses React and Remotion Library for Video Generation. Developed and led a project for an AU company that leverages ML.NET combined with Open AI for Data Categorization. Created a program that syncs and backs up SharePoint to External Storage.

Tech: C#, React, MUI, .NET Core, ML.NET, Open AI, Azure Functions, Cosmos DB, Terraform

Senior Software Engineer

Feb 2020 - April 2023

Willis Towers Watson

Guided and coached Junior-Mid developers. Managed Azure DevOps, Microservices, Application Insights, and SQL Databases. Led the implementation of new technologies.

Tech: C#, Angular, .NET Core, Microsoft B2C, Microservices, Azure Data Factory

Architect / Team Lead

October 2017 - February 2020

BlastAsia, Inc.

Managed an Agile Team of 20 (4 QAs, 16 Devs). Functioned as Software Architect for 3 ground-up projects using .NET Core and Angular. Maintained quality while reducing resource forecasts by 40% through automation.

Tech: C#, Angular, .NET Core, Azure, SQL Server

Senior Programmer Analyst

February 2015 - October 2017

Metrobank

Functioned as System Architect and Lead Developer for the CLIF project. Successfully upgraded legacy apps from VB6 to ASP.NET MVC. Managed a team of 6 developers.

Tech: C#, ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, SQL Server

Education

Bachelor Of Science In Computer Engineering

2003-2008

Rizal Technological University, Philippines

Received a Loyalty Award

Technical Proficiency

Programming & Frameworks

  • C# / .NET
  • React
  • Angular
  • TypeScript
  • SQL Server
  • Azure Cloud
  • Generative AI / AI Tooling
  • CI/CD Pipelines

Tools & Platforms

  • Visual Studio / VS Code
  • Azure DevOps
  • Git / GitHub
  • Docker
  • Terraform / Bicep
  • GitHub Copilot / Claude Code

References

Roselle Teofilo

People Manager

Gallagher Security

(+64) 2 10 826 1379

Nishat Soudagar

Senior Project Manager

Enlighten Designs Ltd.

(+64) 2 7244 2259

Drew Singson

Social Worker

New Zealand

(+64) 2 7730 0983

Jerom Balbuena

Technical Lead

Willis Towers Watson (US)

(+1) 267 206 9990

Orson Visande

Software Architect

Solvento

(+63) 917 311 1104