Jay Fajardo

PROUDCLOUD is a full stack development firm that has been building web and mobile technologies for global startups, medium, and large enterprises since 2009. It's currently participating in the emerging machine economy by expanding its work to the internet of things, machine learning, and data driven platforms. The company serves clients in the United States, Canada, Hong Kong, Australia, and the Philippines.

As founder and CEO, Jay has successfully built an evolving agile development team and process that established the company as the country's leading Ruby on Rails development firm. Through the years, the company's technology stack has expanded to Javascript technologies (such as Node.js, Angular, React, Vue), NoSQL, Android/iOS development, IOT and embedded systems, machine learning, and the blockchain.

• implementing the company's agile workflow that follows a hybrid SCRUM/XP methodology, pair programming, peer code reviews, automated testing and continuous integration, and automated deployment;
• developing a full stack workforce that produces engineers that can overlap, in varying degrees, their front-end development, back-end development, ui/ux design, and devops competencies;
• continuous training and development for the company's human resources in all departments, including production operations, finance, administrative, and the rest of the organization;
• encourages the active participation of the company in the technology and startup communities such as Startup Weekend, JSConf, RubyConf, and other communities, resulting in a high brand equity for the company in these circles.

MANILA, SAN FRANCISCO

MEDIFI is a HIPPAA compliant, WebRTC based, telehealth platform that connects patients with physicians globally, through video consultations, and instant messaging. The platform also includes a DICOM imaging manager/viewer, digital prescriptions, and a personal medical journal.

• building the company's engineering team to its current size of 8 developers and ui/ux designers support the product development roadmap;
• designing the architecture and technology stack for the MVP and current version of the platform that is built on Ruby on Rails, Javascript, MongoDB, WebRTC, and utilizes Amazon EC2/S3 for staging and production deployments;
• designing and currently leading the development of the paltform's next iteration which will heavily be designed to support a microservices architecture and migration towards a more robust WebRTC and signalling implementation, in order to properly scale;
• play a major role in the agile product development path, including feature design scheduling, and roll out;
• represented the company in various tech startup and health tech conventions, events, and pitching events around the world, selected as an Angel's Choice awardee at the 2015 Websummit in Dublin, Ireland, and winning best startup at the 2016 APEC O2O Forum in Lima, Peru.

Launchgarage is a tech innovation hub in Manila that provides a venue for open collaboration, knowledge sharing, events, acceleration, and a landing pad for global startups that want to connect with the Philippine startup ecosystem.

Fajardo established the country’s first Wi-Fi hotspot operator eventually becoming the largest and most popular Wi-Fi network in the Philippines with over 600 hotspots throughout the country. While leading and growing the company from a management perspective, Fajardo also played the lead role in developing the product and brand as well as the technology architecture.

As CEO, Fajardo’s role was to define the company’s vision, drive product development, act as chief strategist, while bearing P&L responsibilities.

• Developed the company’s overall business plan encompassing Financial, Technological, Marketing, and Sales/Distribution concerns.
• Developed the core technologies to support a secure and centralized authentication of subscribers through captive portal technology and RADIUS AAA.
• Built and trained a team of engineers to support the company’s development and network management requirements in relation to the wireless hotspot business model.
• Organized and directed the company’s management team through the start-up and succeeding day-to-day concerns.
• Successfully initiated strategic partnerships with various wireless related firms to support the company’s network deployment as well as implement joint marketing activities and co-branding.
• Successfully deployed over 600 wireless hotspots and hotzones around the country. Expanded Wi-Fi hotspot operations to Nigeria, Thailand, and New Zealand.
• Implemented Voice over IP capabilities over the entire network through Wi-Fi SIP phones and dual mode handsets.
• Successfully established the company as a white label solutions provider for the country’s major carriers including PLDT, SMART, BayanTel, and Eastern Telecoms.

MANILA, BANGKOK, HO CHI MINH CITY

As Managing Director of Pacific Sun, Fajardo was in charge of building the company’s wholesale Voice-over-IP network with points-of-presence in Manila, Thailand, and Vietnam. Fajardo designed and implemented the company’s VOIP network operations that included redundant high speed IP links and fault tolerant data centers in Bangkok, Manila, and other remote sites throughout Asia. Fajardo also developed and executed the company’s business processes which included marketing strategies, billing and collection systems, QOS, and network operations.

At Pacific Sun, Fajardo also established strategic relationships with wholesale long distance carriers and telcos in the Philippines, Japan, and the United States. During his stint at Pacific Sun, the company’s VOIP network supported millions of long distance minutes per month.

At GDA, Fajardo designed and implemented the company’s VOIP network, data center, and business processes. The company’s VOIP network supported an average of 3 million minutes of long distance minutes per month into Vietnam.

Fajardo played a key role in developing and publishing what was to be the country’s first newspaper to establish a presence on the web.

Aside from forming the technology foundation of the new media company, Fajardo developed various web based applications that would be integrated into the core web site, including a search engine of the newspaper archives and the user interactive features using Java and Javascript.

Fajardo also led the orientation and implementation team for the Press Foundation of Asia’s NETCENTER project, a UNDP funded, internet based network of press organizations throughout Asia. He conducted on-site training, orientation, and execution of digital journalism at the various member press institutes in Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Kathmandu, New Delhi, and Dhaka, linking them to the NETCENTER network hub in Manila.

• directing the network and technology architecture that would support the organization's daily web publishing operations, and the peripheral digital products that would emerge over the life the company;
• coded and implemented CODEX, the web search engine for the Businessworld online archives;

As president and lead software engineer at Synthesys, Fajardo and his team served the bespoke IT applications requirements of various companies in the Philippines which included, Compania de Filipinas (TABACALERA), and Unilever.

As a member of the company’s IT group, Fajardo migrated the group’s entire software development and database environment from legacy Cobol to the xBase platform. His systems development work included applications to support the company’s General Ledger, Accounts Payable, and Accounts Receivable processing.

Fajardo also headed a team that implemented an early wireless data communications network using Single Side Band frequencies connecting the company’s offices in Makati, Masbate, and Cebu.