Jc Bernabe

IT Area Lead at ING Hubs Philippines

Metro Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines

About

Software engineer and people manager with over 13 years of experience in the industry. I specialize in aligning tech strategy with business objectives to deliver high-quality applications. Led cross-functional teams across software development and IT operations. Foster collaboration across departments and ensure IT is not just a support function, but a strategic partner for business growth.

Experience

  • ING Hubs Philippines (7 yrs 2 mos)
    • IT Area Lead
      Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr

      As an IT Area Lead, I serve as a primary point of contact between ING Netherlands and ING Hubs Manila. Manage stakeholders from different levels IT leadership. Functionally reporting to country CIO. Manage group of Chapter leads. Lead a multi-skill team of developers. Facilitate synergy between multiple IT Areas within the department. Ensure company strategy are translated into actionable steps.

    • IT Chapter Lead
      Aug 2022 - Jul 2025 · 3 yrs

      As an IT Chapter Lead, I combine technical skills with people and stakeholder management to support cross-functional squads. Main focus is on strengthening engineering skills and nurturing individual growth within my chapter. Lead and mentor squads with multiple capabilities, frontend, backend, SRE , and DevOps. Collaborate with NL Chapter leads, IT Area leads, Product leads, Customer Journey Experts and other engineers to deliver high-impact and customer-focused features.

    • Squad Lead
      Aug 2020 - Aug 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      Responsible for guiding a cross-functional team, product owners, designers and architects to deliver high-impact features. Align with global platform team on adapting target technology. Led day-to-day squad operations. Collaborate with product owners to refine backlogs, prioritize work and deliver value. Mentor and coach team members.

  • IOS Developer at Outsourced.ph
    Feb 2015 - Oct 2018 · 3 yrs 9 mos

    Developed a social media application. One of the main responsibilities was to handle mostly UI and UX tasks. From time to time, do bug fixing and improvements on the backend side of the app. Handle feature requests. We had assignment rotation when it comes to app deployment. This includes app distribution to the QA team (via Fabric Beta and Testflight), then app store deployment

  • IOS Developer (UI/UX Developer) at WORK[etc]
    Jan 2014 - Feb 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos

    Create and develop the mobile application of a business management application. WORK[etc] (https://www.worketc.com). Develop User Interface and User Experience side of the app. Implement feature requests. Handle bug fixing and improvements.

  • IOS Developer at Tranzglobal
    Sep 2013 - Jan 2014 · 5 mos

    As the only iOS Developer in the team my job was to create apps from scratch to release. Complete iOS app development process. Fishtune App - A file management app that has some functionalities similar to iTunes. It syncs files or data like music files and photos, from a remote pc to your device through socket connections. It also includes movie streaming and other miscellaneous files accessing and viewing. Phone app (android) - An in-house application that will be used for the company’s products of Android devices(Kata). Fish cloud - Developed iOS app. Created simple login API for both Android and iOS.

  • IOS Developer at Infochat
    Jul 2013 - Sep 2013 · 3 mos

    Created mobile versions of the news websites (www.infochat.com.ph) and (www.prnews.com.ph). Started from scratch, handled development to release.