Julian Peter Gerona

Calamba City, Laguna jp-gerona@protonmail.com linkedin.com/in/jp-gerona github.com/jp-gerona

Education

MAPÚA MALAYAN COLLEGES LAGUNA

Cabuyao, Laguna

BS Information Technology, Specializing in Cybersecurity

August 2022 – 2026

Running General Weighted Average: 1.48 (1.00 scale)

President's Lister, 2022–2023; Dean's Lister, 2022–2026

Relevant Coursework: Applied Cryptography, Ethical Hacking, Information Security and Assurance, Systems Integration and Architectures, Web Systems and Technologies, HCI and UI/UX, Data Structures and Algorithms Analysis

Work Experience

CITY GOVERNMENT OF BIÑAN – ICT OFFICE

Biñan, Laguna

Software Engineer Intern

April 2026 – Present

  • Engineered the Biñan Access Card MIS with PHP CodeIgniter 4 stack for the City Social Welfare and Development Office (CSWDO), centralizing census profiling and demographic tracking for 100,000+ families across 24 barangays.
  • Built spatial and data analytics dashboards utilizing Chart.js and PSGC shapefiles converted to SVG, providing city administrators with real-time demographic distributions and event throughput metrics.
  • Designed subsidy distribution workflows to verify beneficiary eligibility and disburse aid for municipal and national programs, including 4Ps and Senior Citizen pensions.
  • Deployed offline local-network QR verification pipelines across 15–20 concurrent scanner stations, eliminating external internet dependency during multi-day payout events and preventing duplicate disbursements.

CREOTEC PHILIPPINES

Remote

Work Immersion Trainee

April 2021

  • Built two Android applications for employee payroll and attendance records in MIT App Inventor.
  • Awarded Best in Work Immersion for the STEM strand.

Projects

STREAMLINE (Capstone Project)

2026
  • Led a 4-person team building a full-stack geospatial and visualization platform for the Laguna Lake Development Authority (LLDA), fusing LoRa IoT sensor telemetry with satellite raster data on an interactive MapLibre GL and deck.gl map.
  • Architected the stack on React 19 and Django REST Framework over PostGIS, serving satellite raster layers from Cloudflare R2 object storage.
  • Delivered the full monitoring workflow: water quality dashboard, government-to-government management, and automated report generation scheduling via cron workers.
  • Applied SAST and DAST practices against the OWASP Top 10 via Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) and GitHub Actions to secure the web application.

MMCL SPARK

2025
  • Led a 4-person team building a native Android student enrollment portal in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose over a REST/PHP backend via Ktor, including a conflict-free schedule suggester generating non-overlapping section combinations from enlisted courses.
  • Covered the full enrollment cycle from enlistment and sectioning through billing and grades, with a hand-built weekly timetable that merges overlapping class events against a live clock.

GITGUD

2026
  • Built a terminal UI developer tool for git version control in Rust using Ratatui and Crossterm as a personal productivity project.
  • Implemented hunk-level staging through git apply patches and a modal vi-style commit editor to familiarize with Vim motions.

Affiliations

CYBERSECURITY SOCIETY OF THE PHILIPPINES (CyberSocPH)

Member, 2026
  • Recognized as a Member in Good Standing of the national professional society for cybersecurity practitioners.

MAPÚA MCL INFOTECH SOCIETY (ITSOC)

Member, 2025
  • Trained in GIS fundamentals and QGIS workflows at the society's Actionable Insights remote sensing and geomapping workshop.

Skills

Technical Skills: Proficient in TypeScript, Python, PHP, SQL; React, Next.js, Node.js, Django, CodeIgniter 4, Tailwind CSS; PostgreSQL, MySQL, Figma. Familiar with Rust, Godot, Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Docker, GitHub Actions, and Cloudflare R2.

Certifications: CompTIA Tech+; Cisco CCNA: Introduction to Networks; Cisco Ethical Hacker; Google Cloud Computing Foundations; Amazon Full Stack Web Development; Infosec Advanced Python

Languages: Filipino (native), English (fluent)