Shipping Gala · open to collaborations
Full Stack Engineer · Iloilo City, Philippines
I build mobile and web products end to end — Expo apps, NestJS APIs, and the pipelines that ship them. Six years writing software, close to four of them professionally.
Featured · Founder & engineer · — now
An AI-powered app for planning group outings, built for Filipino barkada culture. Tell it the city, the vibe and the budget and it builds a real itinerary — stops, timing, travel between them and a per-person split — that the whole group can vote on, join and follow live on the day.
Selected work
Best Pitch · Moonshot TNK 2023 (DTI Region VI)
A motorcycle safety system: a smart helmet paired with a real-time monitoring platform to cut road deaths in the Philippines. Built and pitched with Central Philippine University.
Champion · HackFest 2022 (GDSC Loyola) · 2nd Runner Up · Impact Hackathon 2021
SMS platform that gives people in far-flung areas with little internet 24/7 medical help and information — nearby hospitals, doctors and AI-assisted symptom guidance — over plain text.
Pitched at Hong Kong PolyHack 2023
A second-brain journal: log your thoughts and day-to-day rants and let AI suggest healthier ways to cope. Includes a debate mode where an AI helps you analyse arguments, rebuttals and facts.
Study and quiz app on the T3 Turbo stack — one typesafe tRPC API serving both the Expo mobile app and the Next.js web client, with Clerk for auth.
A buy-and-sell marketplace made for students — list, browse and trade within your campus community. Live on iOS and Android.
A time-based math trainer: build your own drills and race the clock to sharpen mental arithmetic. Software Engineering coursework at CPU.
The route so far
Product engineer at heart: I like owning a feature from the API schema to the release notes, and I care about the boring parts — tests, CI, observability — because they're what let a small team ship fast.
Education
Central Philippine University · —
Programming and mathematics were the favourites; hackathons were the habit — HackFest, Impact Hackathon, Hong Kong PolyHack, Moonshot TNK.
Now
Gala · getgala.app
Designing and building Gala end to end — Expo mobile app, NestJS API, Next.js landing and admin. Own the AI itinerary pipeline, group voting, budget splits, subscriptions, push, and the CI/CD that deploys staging on every merge.
Captivate · The Prelude · Remote
Built The Prelude, a luxury travel concierge mobile app, as one of two engineers on the product. Shipped the iOS and Android app from scratch in React Native, Expo and TypeScript on a NestJS + PostgreSQL backend, and owned the EAS build and OTA release pipeline end to end.
Devy · Sydney, Australia
Built a web application for managing sales and supply-chain operations for Grounded Packaging — primarily Next.js and TypeScript, with Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL and AWS (S3, Lambda, Cognito, SES). Ran code reviews and reported progress to the CTO and stakeholders.
UniHub · Central Philippine University
Co-founded UniHub, a buy-and-sell marketplace for students. Launched the mobile app on iOS and Android in React Native, Expo and TypeScript, and served as Scrum Master for the team.
Invesko · Metro Manila
Built the mobile app for trading US stocks in React Native and Expo, plus a paper-trading account simulator on the web in partnership with PayMaya. Also worked on trading functionality in the Fastify backend.
Toolbox
TypeScript everywhere. Type-safe from database to screen, tested end to end, deployed from CI.
Where to next?
Freelance, full-time, or a hackathon weekend — if it involves a mobile app, a good API, or a hard problem, I'd love to hear about it.
