Asher James E. Sta. Ana

asherstaana@gmail.com | (+63) 9614075286 | Manila, PH | LinkedIn | GitHub | asherstaana.dev

EDUCATION

University of Santo Tomas, Manila | B.S. Information Technology (Web and Mobile Development Track)

Expected: Jun 2027

  • GWA: 1.32 / 1.00 (1st year - present)
  • Dean's Lister (1st year - present)

PROJECTS

Infrastructure Status Dashboard | Python, Prometheus, Grafana, Jenkins, Terraform

Aug 2026 – Present

  • Build a Prometheus/Grafana monitoring stack, extensible to any current or future project, aggregating CI/CD, host, and AWS health into one dashboard.
  • Write a custom Python exporter bridging GitHub's Actions API into Prometheus, since no native integration exists.
  • Self-host Jenkins on a dedicated home lab machine, driving automated deployments to Terraform-provisioned AWS infrastructure.

CommuteWise | React, TypeScript, AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Cognito, Bedrock, SAM

Jun 2026 – Present

  • Serve as lead developer for backend and cloud infrastructure on a 3-member capstone team.
  • Build infrastructure on AWS, including S3/CloudFront and EventBridge-scheduled Lambdas, to compute a Departure Confidence Score from traffic, rain, air quality, and crowdsourced data for Metro Manila commuters.
  • Integrate AWS Bedrock to translate the Departure Confidence Score into plain-language commute recommendations.

Cloud Resume Challenge | AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, S3, CloudFront

Jul 2026 – Aug 2026

  • Built and deployed a fully serverless resume site on AWS with an HTML/CSS frontend and Python backend, running at under $1/month.
  • Automated testing and infrastructure deployment with pytest, AWS SAM, and two GitHub Actions pipelines, deploying frontend changes in under 20 seconds.

BeST Organization & Communication System | ASP.NET, AWS EC2, ECS, RDS, Docker

Aug 2025 – May 2026

  • Built a central coordination system for UST's Becarios de Santo Tomas, a 250+ member scholars' organization, covering document organization, member accounts, concern-reporting, and announcements/events dissemination.
  • Served as the Software Engineering team's System Analyst, overseeing development and solely handling deployment to production on EC2/ECS with a containerized ASP.NET app and RDS MySQL backend.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Freelance Full-Stack Web Developer

Jul 2025 – Present

  • Design and develop web applications for clients, handling frontend, backend, and cloud integrations as needed.
  • Develop a real estate listing website for a client with React and TypeScript, still in development.

CERTIFICATIONS & BADGES

  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02)
  • Cisco CCNA - Introduction to Networks
  • CompTIA IT Fundamentals+ (ITF+)

Aug 2026 – Aug 2029

Feb 2025

May 2024

LEADERSHIP & ORGANIZATIONS

UST Society of Information Technology Enthusiasts | Team Head for Audit and Logistics

Sep 2024 – May 2025

  • Served as Technical Director and code checker for CodeCraft, a coding competition, ensuring fair, accurate judging.
  • Audited financial records as Team Head for Audit and Logistics, supporting transparent fund handling.

UST CICS Commission on Elections | Operations and Logistics Deputy

Oct 2023 – May 2024

  • Led block elections on behalf of CICS COMELEC, overseeing voting procedures and results reporting.
  • Wrote questions for Candidatalk, a CICS student council miting de avance, testing candidates' platforms and readiness.

SKILLS

  • Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFront, Route 53, ACM, IAM, EC2, ECS, RDS, Cognito, EventBridge, Bedrock, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, SAM) | Terraform

  • Tools: Jenkins | GitHub Actions | Git | Docker | Prometheus | Grafana

  • Backend: Python | C# | Java | ASP.NET Framework | SQL

  • Frontend: HTML | CSS | JavaScript | TypeScript | React | AngularJS | Bootstrap