Anton Perez
Enterprise Cloud & Platform Leader working at the intersection of US enterprise scale and Philippine financial services — increasingly focused on bringing AI and automation into how engineering teams build. Currently, Head of Cloud Engineering & Automation at one of the Philippines’ largest banks.
Working on cloud platform, DevSecOps, or engineering-capability challenges in regulated industries? Let’s talk.
How I help
Cloud Platform & Governance
How a multi-cloud foundation holds up under real regulatory scrutiny — security posture, developer experience, and the guardrails that actually matter. The questions worth asking before the auditors do.
DevSecOps for Regulated Delivery
Embedding security and automation into delivery without slowing teams down — patterns proven at Fortune 500 scale, adapted to local audit and compliance realities.
Engineering Capability
Growing homegrown platform depth — operating models, hiring bars, and the discipline that turns a team from order-takers into a function regional peers respect.
Applied AI & Automation
Bringing AI and agentic tooling into real engineering workflows — memory, automation, and developer leverage. NanoClaw is one example.
Things I’ve built
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.
A leading Philippine bank
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
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
Latest writing
- Benchmarks Tell You the CeilingClaude Opus 4.8 has been out about a month. Most capable model Anthropic has shipped, built for long-running… Read more: Benchmarks Tell You the Ceiling
- 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)
What people say
“I worked alongside Anton at a large PH bank and saw up close what it took for him to push a major DevSecOps initiative forward. Anyone who knows enterprise banking knows how much process and red tape sits in the way of change — and Anton navigated it with persistence and a level head, keeping things moving when most people would have stalled. He’s calm under pressure, exceptionally organized, and he makes the teams around him better. Strong judgment, no drama. Any organization would be lucky to have him.”
Macky Villagarcia
Senior Manager, Enterprise Banking
“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
Regression cycles cut from ~2 weeks to ~18 hours.
“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
Engineering Manager & Test Automation Architect