I’m Anton Perez — a cloud and DevSecOps leader working at the intersection of US enterprise scale and Philippine financial services. Today I’m Head of Cloud Engineering and Automation at one of the Philippines’ largest banks. I lead the multi-cloud platform organization governing AWS, Azure, and GCP across 1,400+ repositories, in one of the region’s most regulated industries.
I came to this with 25+ years of US enterprise experience — six years at BlackLine leading a global DevOps/SRE organization across three time zones, and earlier scaling AWS-migrated systems that processed $10B+ in GTV in live entertainment at Live Nation. I started fiddling with computers in the early 90s writing programs in Basic and Pascal, and somewhere along the way that turned into Fortune 500-grade engineering operations.
Along the way, I trained in code craftsmanship at 8th Light under Micah Martin — son of Robert “Uncle Bob” Martin, who turned the rule in the footer below into a software principle. My Lolo (grandfather in Filipino) just got there first.
I still build for the love of it. NeloLynx is a self-hostable personal OS I’m building from scratch on a Raspberry Pi — a second brain that remembers across sessions, a proactive assistant that surfaces the right note before I ask, and an advisory board that reasons over everything I’ve learned. Small enough to fit in a drawer, persistent enough to run unattended. Staying hands-on with AI keeps my leadership grounded in what’s actually possible — and in how engineering teams can put it to work day to day.
I was born in Manila but grew up and built my whole career in the US. Coming back to help build the Philippines’ engineering future is, more than anything, my way of giving back to where I’m from.
What I’m building toward is a Philippine financial services industry that grows its own engineering depth — transferring US enterprise discipline into local teams, not just renting it: platforms our regulators trust, teams our regional peers respect, and Filipino technologists learning at world-class standards at home.
I write about cloud platform strategy, DevSecOps in regulated industries, and building Philippine engineering depth. For collaborations, talks, or longer-term advisory conversations, the door is open — reach out via the contact page.