Marc Renmel Abiva

Chief Executive Officer at Further Ventures

System Architect
2018 - Current
General manager and system architect of a small local Internet service provider which caters to unserved and underserved rural communities in Ilocos Norte. In this role I have: ● Established a network composed of fiber-optic FTTH and wireless nodes in the two major population centers of Ilocos – Laoag and San Nicolas. ● Built all of the network infrastructure and support IT systems from the ground up. This includes a private OpenStack cloud, hosting RADIUS (AAA), DNS, and internal web apps. ● In charge of overall security, working with firewalls, ACLs. ● Put up PRTG, cacti, ELK + Grafana, for monitoring and analytics. ● Led the business into stellar growth with YoY increase of 20% in revenue amidst a crowded market full of telecommunications giants and incumbents. ● Forged interconnection agreements with the two major telecommunications companies, fulfilling the government’s ICT vision and the National Broadband Plan.

Chief Executive Officer
2022
Founded a small company dedicated to telecommunications sales. In this role I have: ● Inked a profitable business agreement and contract to provide sales and marketing services to a major public telecommunications entity in Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, and Abra. ● Provides analytics and insights to company shareholders, ensuring that our decisions are backed by data. (Office, PowerBI)

Science Research Specialist
2017 - 2018
Served as the technical lead to the Climate Monitoring and Prediction Section of PAGASA, the Philippine weather bureau. In this role I have: ● Built a pipeline for downloading, archiving, and displaying climate information and analyses which was then deployed for use with the WMO-RCC-ASEAN region. (AWS, JS/Flask/Django, GraphQL) ● Collaborated with meteorologists and climatologists to optimize their GIS workflow by introducing CI/CD techniques and establishing a solid ETL process for meteorological data. (Hadoop/Spark) ● Helped build Payong PAGASA, a mobile application for Android and iOS which delivers up-to-date and relevant climate information to the masses. (Leaflet, GeoServer) ● Aggregated raw spatial and temporal data with pandas and processed these into actionable maps and charts using Iris/Cartopy/Matplotlib.

R&D Engineer
2013 - 2017
Created and maintained testing solutions for functional verification of radio products. In this role I have: ● Designed a solution to reduce test tool compilation times, which reduced developer wait-times, generating yearly savings up to €25K for the company. (C++/gdb/Makefile) ● Set up and promoted the use of Jenkins CI/CD environments for automated builds, testing, and release. ● Developed in-house tool for signal/protocol level module tests for a mobile network simulator. This enabled our System Under Test to talk to multiple clients, parallelizing our DevOps workflow. (Twisted/Python) ● Built and maintained an OpenStack cloud environment used by multiple teams for testing and other purposes, promoting high utilization and re-use of hardware. ● Designed and implemented a log aggregation tool's horizontal scaling, enabling real-time analytics from tens of thousands of log files. (Ruby on Rails/Ruby/MogoDB)