Experience
Freelance Software Engineer
2024 – Present
Case management platform · law firm
- Solo, about 4 months. Up to 10 attorneys and staff use it daily with role-based access control, and the firm's spreadsheet workflow is retired.
- Built billing, document automation from versioned templates, and email notifications via AWS SES.
- Added a client portal with attorney messaging and an audit trail of every view, edit and download.
Laravel · Vue · Inertia · MySQL · AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, SES) · Read more
Multi-campus data hub · state university
- Live on all 4 campuses. Google Drive-style file and submissions platform with ONLYOFFICE for in-browser document collaboration.
- Wrote Go sidecars for resumable tus uploads that survive exam-week traffic on flaky campus networks, ClamAV virus scanning with quarantine, and X.509 PDF signing.
Laravel · Go · Vue · MySQL · S3 · ClamAV · ONLYOFFICE · Live site · Read more
Software Engineer, Province of Surigao del Sur
2021 – 2024
- 500+ civil-servant records and a tourism analytics dashboard, replacing paper and Excel.
- ~60% faster reporting by fixing N+1 queries and adding indexes.
- Built an offline AI transcriber for the provincial board, so confidential audio never leaves the machine.
- Automated payroll deductions, tax reporting and SMS alerts, and built a Java Android app and an uptime monitor, turning half-day tasks into one click.
- Introduced Git, code review and CI/CD; mentored 3 engineers.
Laravel · Vue · MySQL · SQL Server · Python · Java (Android)
Records (live) · Tourism (live) · Read more · Transcriber
Intern Developer, NEMSU
Jul – Aug 2018
- 3,000+ students. Faculty evaluation web app where students rate their instructors' teaching.
- Added Python sentiment analysis on written feedback, giving administrators data for strategic planning and decision-making.
Open source
Raycast-style file launcher for Linux. Indexes 200K+ files in ~5s with sub-millisecond search.
Go · GTK3 · fsnotify · GitHub
Terminal GitHub manager: search, multi-select and bulk-delete repos with vim-style keys.
Go · Bubbletea · GitHub API · GitHub
Skills
- Languages
- PHP, Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, SQL
- Frameworks
- Laravel, Vue.js, Inertia.js, Tailwind CSS, Node.js / Express, REST APIs, PHPUnit, Pest
- Data
- MySQL, SQL Server, S3, queues
- Infra
- AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, SES), Docker, Nginx, Cloudflare, ClamAV, Linux, CI/CD, RBAC
- AI / ML
- Whisper, CTranslate2, on-device inference, NLP
Education
BS Computer Science, Surigao del Sur State University (now NEMSU)
2015 – 2019