I am a Senior Software Engineer with extensive experience building scalable, high-performance platforms across government, fintech, and SaaS domains. I specialize in backend engineering using PHP, Python, Java, and Node.js, delivering reliable, secure, and maintainable systems backed by strong cloud, DevOps, and distributed-systems expertise. I bring a quality-focused, collaborative approach and a proven ability to modernize legacy systems, improve platform performance, and support teams in fast-moving, customer-centric environments.

Renz Michael Canuday

I am a Senior Software Engineer with extensive experience building scalable, high-performance platforms across government, fintech, and SaaS domains. I specialize in backend engineering using PHP, Python, Java, and Node.js, delivering reliable, secure, and maintainable systems backed by strong cloud, DevOps, and distributed-systems expertise. I bring a quality-focused, collaborative approach and a proven ability to modernize legacy systems, improve platform performance, and support teams in fast-moving, customer-centric environments.

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I am a Senior Software Engineer with extensive experience building scalable, high-performance platforms across government, fintech, and SaaS domains. I specialize in backend engineering using PHP, Python, Java, and Node.js, delivering reliable, secure, and maintainable systems backed by strong cloud, DevOps, and distributed-systems expertise. I bring a quality-focused, collaborative approach and a proven ability to modernize legacy systems, improve platform performance, and support teams in fast-moving, customer-centric environments.

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Work Experience

Senior Full Stack Engineer at Chomedia
April 1, 2019 - April 1, 2019
Led the development of a SaaS dashboard with a microservices architecture, implementing back-end services in Node.js and PHP components, integrating Apache Kafka and gRPC for inter-service communication, and delivering robust REST APIs and real-time dashboards. Coordinated containerized deployment with Docker and infrastructure provisioning via Terraform.
Senior Full Stack Engineer at Global Brain Force
March 1, 2023 - March 1, 2023
On-site senior engineer delivering fintech application backend and frontend for a sharing & game platform. Built high-throughput microservices, migrated to a scalable architecture, integrated AWS Lambda and Terraform-led provisioning, and produced dashboards and alerting in Datadog/Splunk. Achieved high transaction throughput and improved system latency.
Senior Software Engineer at Hireplicity, Inc.
April 1, 2023 - November 21, 2025
Remote role engineering an AI-driven Government Procurement & Bidding Platform. Built scalable microservices with Python (Django, FastAPI, Flask) and TypeScript (Nest.js, Next.js) for government workflows; implemented OAuth2/JWT auth, REST APIs, and SQL/NoSQL storage; achieved near-99.99% uptime and 500+ daily requests; contributed to code quality and best practices.

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science at University of the Philippines Diliman
April 1, 2013 - May 1, 2017

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Software & Internet, Media & Entertainment, Professional Services