Rowell Belen - Rowell Belen

You are responsible for your career. No one else is.

3 years ago 1 min read Software Development Career

Dear New Developer, What I am about to say may be seen as controversial and somewhat unpopular, but I believe it is important. You are responsible for your career. No one else is.

My First Year at Veho

3 years ago 3 min read Startups Veho Platform Engineering AWS Serverless Microservices Engineering Management Architecture Amazon Web Services Unicorn

I recently came across the concept of a "brag document [https://jvns.ca/blog/brag-documents/]" so I thought I'd revisit some of the most important technical work I'

Use Minimally Opinionated Serverless Templates to Accelerate Microservice Deployments

7 years ago 5 min read AWS AWS Lambda Serverless Microservices Groovy Kotlin Java JVM DevOps Gradle Sentry AWS API Gateway Terraform Travis CI Spock CodeCov

Reducing Friction in Software Deployment/Release Process I truly believe that for a software engineering team to innovate, it must find a way to reduce development-to-deployment friction as much as possible. Imagine being

Serverless Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Data

8 years ago 6 min read Spring Spring Boot AWS Lambda Serverless JPA Spring Data Groovy Java Microservices Amazon Web Services AWS Lambda AWS API Gateway Vert.x

A little over a year ago, I developed the original REST APIs for Tendril [https://www.tendrilinc.com]'s MyHome [https://www.tendrilinc.com/solutions/solutions-for-utilities-and-retailers/my-home?ref=myhome] mobile application using