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Cebu, Philippines
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Profile
Empowering developer with extensive experience in full-stack development, leadership, and community engagement. Proven track record in delivering high-quality web applications and fostering innovation. Passionate about teaching and creating a positive impact through technology.
Skills
Software Design & Architecture
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Frontend & Backend Development
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Technical Leadership
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AI
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Web3
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Projects
12in12 challenge (12 Products in 12 Months)
- Led and created this initiative to find and/or create the builders in the community.
- Committed to ship 12 products in the next 12 months by going through the whole nine yards of this.
- Creating a quick course for solopreneurship/enterpreneurship in this new AI era.
Cebby - Discover all tech events in Cebu
- Bootstrapped project solo and is now and loved by tech communities in Cebu.
- Solves the problem of community organizations running their own events through different platforms and its hard to keep track about everything. Now, this smart service automatically aggregates and surfaces these events without needing manual work of adding these events.
StackShift
- Led and shipped the first product of the company. StackShift offers a complete solution out of the box for marketers, small business owners and/or companies to be able to create landing pages and websites in just a few minutes using the latest technologies and best of its class headless CMS, static sites generation and server side rendering with Next.js
- Migrated almost all our customers to this product
- Finally made the company more appropriately labeled as a product company after shipping product.
- Built primarily with React.js with Next.js framework for the app, Electron for the web app, with headless CMS partnered with Sanity.io. Websites created are automated via serverless functions with xstate architecture and deployed in Netlify and/or Vercel.
WebriQ Forms
- Led and shipped the first of its own forms solution that can easily be integrated to any static website or app.
- Served more than 1k+ websites up-to-date.
- Built with microservices and serverless technologies using AWS Cloud, Lambda, AWS API Gateway and DynamoDB via Serverless Framework.
WebriQ Payments
- Led and shipped the first of its own payments solution that allowed accepting payments - one-time and subscription easily through this integration.
- Served more than 50 customers up-to-date who accept payments via this solution.
- Built with microservices and serverless technologies with close integration to Stripe.
WebriQ App (Legacy)
- Solo dev and shipped the first ever web app that’s used internally to manage the creation and automation of our customers websites and web app as well their integrations to our solutions - forms and payments.
- Served more than 500 websites until it got upgraded to a newer architecture and design with GraphQL and CRA and latest with Next.js.
- Built with Laravel, MySQL and other integrations with Matomo for analytics, Netlify for sites platform provider and running our own cloud server.
Opensource Contributions
Laravel
- Created the Laravel Valet Driver for Abantecart, enhancing local development environments for e-commerce applications.
- Authored several gists, including the widely-used laravel-nginx-config, which allows select configuration for allowing HTTP routes to work but mostly keep others secured via HTTPS for Laravel applications.
Netlify
- Published insightful technical blogs, sharing advanced techniques and best practices for deploying web applications using Netlify.
Sanity.io
Strapi.io
- Wrote comprehensive blogs on Strapi.io, covering advanced topics and use cases to help developers maximize the potential of this headless CMS.
- Conducted a Gatsby + Strapi workshop in collaboration with Gatsby, educating developers on integrating Strapi with Gatsby for building dynamic web applications.
WordPress
- Developed several plugins for WordPress, enhancing the platform’s capabilities and providing new features for users.
Work Experience
CTO
Jan 2019 - Present · 6 yrs 1 mo
Senior Engineer
Oct 2015 - Present · 9 yrs 4 mos
WebriQ - Singapore & Cebu
- Spearheaded the adoption of cutting-edge technologies ensuring the company remained at the forefront of innovation in web and application development, eg: transitioning from internally developed site builder to static websites with JAMstack in 2016, and adopting AI starting last year. This has significantly positioned the company growing its revenue year by year by 20% despite the challenges of the pandemic. Also, significantly improved project turnaround rate bringing down by half the usual time for a project to go live. With this also, it boosted client satisfaction by more than 100%.
- Led a diverse team of 20 consisting of developers, designers, and others with their own technical responsibilities to deliver high-quality websites and applications for SME to enterprise clients, driving business growth and expanding the client base. This effort drove business growth by 25% last year and expanded the client base by 10 new clients up-to-date.
- Facilitated the company’s transition from a service-based model to a product-centric approach by launching StackShift ↗. This versatile platform for building composable websites and applications tailored to various business needs, contributing to the company’s strategic shift and and opened new revenue streams, increasing revenue to more than 50%.
- Conducted comprehensive training programs on code quality and reviews, testing methodologies, design architecture, and many more. This enhanced WebriQ’s technical competency and fostered a culture of continuous improvement and skill development, resulting in a more proficient and cohesive workforce, with productivity increasing by 20%.
Senior Engineer / DevRel
Stacks.js, In - US
Dec 2023 - May 2024 · 6 mos
- Helped and provided consultation in architecting this so-called Laravel framework but for JavaScript.
- Designed the onboarding setup allowing developers to quickly get the optimal setup needed for them to start creating their project increasing the trial adoption rate by 80%.
- Significantly reduced the project size by more than 75% after shipping dependency management as per project type selected in onboarding setup.
- Created comprehensive internal documentation to streamline the onboarding process for new developers and maintain a coherent knowledge base for the team.
Web Developer
SupportHQ - Australia