Ricardo Basa
Metro Manila, Philippines
Summary
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SeniorRicardo Basa is a seasoned software professional with over 25 years of experience, known for a data-first mindset that underpins every IT project. As a Senior R/Shiny Engineer at Appsilon, he designs and delivers data-centric analytics apps, and previously introduced "Shiny-by-configuration" and end-to-end CI/CD pipelines with Docker, Jenkins, and RStudio Connect for pharma and health clients. His hands-on work spans data design, gathering, cleaning, storage schemas, visualization, and analysis, with a focus on modular, testable code and production-grade packaging. He has held leadership roles including Director and Board of Examiners at ITPEC and CTO of Tresdaq Network Services, reflecting strong governance and strategic technology oversight. Based in Metro Manila, Philippines, he has led migrations between Azure SQL Server and Azure Databricks and consistently improves CI/CD and deployment workflows across teams. Beyond engineering, he has trained professionals and lectured at academic institutions, marrying practical production skills with education and mentorship.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
English, Japanese, Filipino
Github Skills (92)
coverage10
shiny-apps10
test-coverage10
r10
shiny10
codecov10
istanbul10
geospatial-visualization10
unit-testing10
travis-ci10
testing9
r-package9
knitr8
linter8
leaflet8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Appsilon/covr
Jan 2023 - Feb 2024
Test coverage reports for R
Contributions:1 review, 17 PRs, 42 pushes in 1 year
reportstestingcoverage-reportscoveragetest-coverage
Appsilon/box.linters
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
lintr-compatible linters for box modules in R
Contributions:2 releases, 27 reviews, 101 PRs in 11 months
boxlinterrrhinoverseshiny
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