Anton Perez
Enterprise Cloud & Platform Leader working at the intersection of US enterprise scale and Philippine financial services. Currently, Head of Cloud Engineering & Automation at BDO Unibank.
What I focus on
Cloud & Platform Engineering
Secure, scalable AWS, Azure, and GCP foundations at enterprise scale.
DevSecOps in Regulated Industries
Security and automation embedded into delivery, by default.
Building PH Engineering Depth
Transferring Fortune 500 discipline into local financial-services teams.
Things I’ve built
NanoClaw
A self-hosted MCP server I run and extend on a Raspberry Pi — giving Claude memory across sessions, file-writing hands, and a searchable archive of everything I’ve learned. TypeScript · SQLite · Tailscale.
Self-hosted
Multi-cloud deployment fabric
A self-service platform governing delivery across AWS, Azure, and GCP — reusable Terraform/Terragrunt modules and pipelines across 1,400+ repos, with regulatory and audit guardrails baked into developer workflows.
BDO Unibank
Enterprise automation framework
A C#-based test automation framework adopted by ~70 engineers, plus a Kubernetes test-execution platform — cutting regression cycles from ~2 weeks to ~18 hours.
BlackLine
What colleagues say
“I can’t recommend him highly enough. Anton demonstrated exceptional leadership and technical skills, setting up a robust, stable automation framework that significantly improved our testing processes.”
Shirdi Mudunuri
Staff Software Engineer, BlackLine
“Anton consistently demonstrated an unparalleled ability to organize and manage complex projects — clear goals, defined deliverables, and tracking that ensured each met or exceeded expectations. His technical aptitude sets him apart.”
Aleck Gandel
QA Engineering Manager & Test Automation Architect
“Anton is a true software craftsman and a great manager. I joined when he started the automation framework and watched it grow into an enterprise engineering marvel.”
Vadim Harenco
Staff Automation SDET
Latest ramblings
- I do my best thinking after 10 pmAlways have. Ideas and epiphanies show up at night. The noise stops, the inbox stops, and I can… Read more: I do my best thinking after 10 pm
- How I actually use AI tools (and why I stopped using one tool for everything)Until some time early last year, ChatGPT was my answer to everything. Ask it, get something, move on.… Read more: How I actually use AI tools (and why I stopped using one tool for everything)
- Governance Comes First — Even When the Vendor Is Your FriendEvery leader in a regulated environment eventually faces this. A vendor you trust — and genuinely enjoy working… Read more: Governance Comes First — Even When the Vendor Is Your Friend