# Experience

> Roles and highlights for Rodrigo N. Isabelo Jr.

### Lead of Software Engineering

**GoTeam** · May 2025 – Aug 2026

Five teams, fifteen-plus engineers, eight product families — and still the principal author on the systems that matter most.

- Directly managing six engineering reports across ten concurrent projects, while maintaining roughly seventy percent hands-on involvement in the codebase to keep architectural decisions grounded in real implementation.
- Principal author on a ground-up rewrite of the flagship AI Agent and Workflow Builder platform, from ideation to deployment.
- Established engineering code standards, best practices, and agentic engineering workflows — lints, unit testing, and CI/CD pipeline safeguards — raising code quality across every team.
- Built observability and troubleshooting utility tools for QA and product teams, and ran workshops to train them on it — cutting engineering intervention on incident escalations by roughly 40%.
- Established a clear communication discipline for time-sensitive action items, cutting resolution time significantly with zero repeat escalations since.
- Established a cybersecurity protocol across infrastructure and third-party services — zero key leakage and zero operational discrepancies since, preventing any large-scale security breach across the AWS environment.
- Authored a forty-seven-document engineering operations handbook, with a clear business continuity plan and structured knowledge transfer, so critical engineering knowledge no longer depends on one person.

### Lead AI Implementation Engineer

**GoTeam** · Dec 2023 – May 2025

Built the company’s AI practice from a blank page — three products live in under a year, and a framework that made the next ones faster.

- Built the company’s AI practice from zero, shipping three AI products to production within ten to twelve months — all still in active business use today.
- Sole-authored the company’s in-house RAG and agentic framework — eight subsystems spanning five model providers and three vector stores — reducing provider migration from a full rewrite to a single configuration change.
- Established Pinecone-based retrieval infrastructure ahead of industry adoption, resulting in a data ingestion and retrieval pipeline that still powers five-plus products today.
- Established preventive security controls — AWS WAF, CloudTrail alerting, and least-privilege access — as the default posture across the AWS environment.
- Designed and implemented a CI/CD pipeline with automated static analysis, testing, semantic versioning, and changelog generation, cutting release cycle time company-wide by an estimated 30%.
- Founded and ran an internal engineering workshop series — thirteen sessions on Laravel best practices, security, RESTful API design, and RAG — establishing the team’s working standard from within.
- Established OKRs for the team and every product under it, giving each engineer a measurable outcome directly tied to company goals.

### Full-Stack Developer

**GoTeam** · May 2021 – Dec 2023

The person who brought AI into the building — first chatbot, first retrieval patterns, the foundation everything after was built on.

- Shipped the company’s first AI chatbot using OpenAI and Pinecone, establishing the retrieval pattern that the in-house AI framework was built on two years later.
- Extended AI into recruitment and training by building an interview-simulation tool and a presentation-practice tool, both still active in the workflow today.
- Started the company’s AI adoption in 2022, a year ahead of the industry’s ChatGPT-driven rush, resulting in research projects that cut manual workload across several departments by an estimated 25%.
- Built complex first-party features from scratch, including a form and business-card builder and a Gantt-chart task-management module, while establishing the Vue.js and Laravel coding standards the rest of the team built against.

### Senior Front-end Web Developer

**WhiteBelt Inc.** · Oct 2020 – May 2021

Primary front-end owner — and the one who pushed the product toward a real API-driven split.

- Rebuilt the front-end architecture around services and models mirroring the back end’s MVC pattern, serving as the primary contributor on every screen shipped during the tenure.
- Pitched and led the initiative to fully decouple front end from back end, migrating the product onto an API-driven architecture.

### Front-end Web Developer

**AGuyIKnow IT Business Solutions** · Nov 2018 – Oct 2020

Rebuilt how the product’s front-end was structured, then taught the next developers to ship the same way.

- Rebuilt an estimated 30% of the product’s front-end infrastructure solo, supervised the junior developers who maintained it, and led internal process improvements that raised the team’s overall output quality.

### Web Developer (Internship)

**University of San Jose-Recoletos** · Mar 2017 – Oct 2018

Shipped systems the university still runs — including Bellsys, the campus bell scheduler, years after I left.

- Delivered a second system alongside Bellsys — an IoT controller built in Java managing air-conditioning, lighting, and temperature monitoring for the university’s data center.