I am Arnel Aves, a Software Development Manager and Solutions/Software Architect with 12 years of experience designing scalable solutions and guiding teams' technical direction. I have almost two decades of hands-on software development across full stack, backend, and mobile, with deep expertise in Agile, DevOps, and leading remote teams. In recent years I have led initiatives across telecommunications, software, and services organizations, driving cloud-native architectures, microservices, and cloud migrations. I am passionate about mentoring engineers, embracing modular design, and leveraging AI tools to accelerate delivery while maintaining high quality.

Arnel Aves

I am Arnel Aves, a Software Development Manager and Solutions/Software Architect with 12 years of experience designing scalable solutions and guiding teams' technical direction. I have almost two decades of hands-on software development across full stack, backend, and mobile, with deep expertise in Agile, DevOps, and leading remote teams. In recent years I have led initiatives across telecommunications, software, and services organizations, driving cloud-native architectures, microservices, and cloud migrations. I am passionate about mentoring engineers, embracing modular design, and leveraging AI tools to accelerate delivery while maintaining high quality.

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I am Arnel Aves, a Software Development Manager and Solutions/Software Architect with 12 years of experience designing scalable solutions and guiding teams’ technical direction. I have almost two decades of hands-on software development across full stack, backend, and mobile, with deep expertise in Agile, DevOps, and leading remote teams.

In recent years I have led initiatives across telecommunications, software, and services organizations, driving cloud-native architectures, microservices, and cloud migrations. I am passionate about mentoring engineers, embracing modular design, and leveraging AI tools to accelerate delivery while maintaining high quality.

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Language

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Work Experience

Lead Consultant – Software Engineering at 3Cloud
May 1, 2025 - Present
Led technical discovery of a legacy Java Swing application, gaining a deep understanding of the Synth Look and Feel and custom UI components within one week, enabling the team to effectively maintain and enhance the codebase. Delivered over 60% of the work on assigned user stories in a team of three, contributing significantly to the successful implementation of UI features and enhancements.
Software Development Manager at Anytime Mailbox
May 1, 2025 - October 22, 2025
Provided technical leadership and performance management for cross-functional development and DevOps teams. Hands-on development in .NET C#, infrastructure setup, and DevOps pipeline creation and management. Spearheaded shift-left mindset touching Agile practices, continuous integration, automated testing, and code review. Served as subject matter expert for Agile practices and adapting them to organizational ways of working. Initiated cost optimization for AWS services and instances; automated code reviews using SonarQube; and implemented observability using Datadog and New Relic.
Software Architect at Globe Telecom
August 1, 2024 - October 22, 2025
Designed software solutions and led technical implementations for major initiatives including AWS, Azure, GCP, microservices, and event-based architectures. Developed microservices-based applications using Java, Node.js, React, and Angular; managed DevOps pipelines for deployment automation; coached teams in DevOps transformation; converted Jenkins pipelines to GitLab CI; implemented CAST SAST across the organization.
Team Lead, Applications Development at Sophos
July 1, 2020 - October 22, 2025
Led a development team maintaining customer-facing websites using C#, .NET, and Sitecore. Provided Level 3 support and implemented software improvements. Served as SCRUM Master, improving Agile practices. Worked closely with the DevOps team during deployments using Octopus Deploy and monitored errors using Splunk.
Software Development Team Lead at Human Edge Software Philippines (Tribal)
January 1, 2019 - October 22, 2025
Managed development teams for education management systems. Acted as interim Development Manager overseeing multiple teams, including QA. Hands-on development on C#, WPF, Angular, Oracle, Azure.
Software Solutions Analyst at Emerson Software Solutions
November 1, 2016 - October 22, 2025
Improved the software development process, saving more than 50% of development effort and increasing revenue. Led ground-up development, R&D, and application maintenance projects using C#, Java, Native Android and iOS, jQuery, SharePoint, MSSQL and Oracle. Established a Software Solutions Delivery team. Implemented a shared code library that saved significant effort. Initiated SCM using SVN.
Software Engineer at Accenture
April 1, 2011 - October 22, 2025
Developed and managed applications across technologies like Java, ColdFusion, jQuery, Oracle, SharePoint and classic ASP.
Systems Analyst at IDS Philippines
February 1, 2010 - October 22, 2025
Hands-on software development and application management services using technologies like ASP.NET, ASP Classic, Java, Windows CE, MSSQL and Oracle.

Education

BS Computer Science at Our Lady of Fatima University
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2007

Qualifications

DevOps Foundation
January 11, 2030 - October 22, 2025
TDD
January 11, 2030 - October 22, 2025

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Telecommunications, Education, Professional Services