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ships production web platforms end-to-end.

Full-stack engineer specializing in Laravel and Vue.js. Five years shipping production systems on AWS, from architecture and database design through deployment. Available for full-time remote roles and select contracts.

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Location Surigao del Sur, Philippines

Email vistalchris@gmail.com

Working hours PHT (UTC+8) · async-friendly

5+ years shipping // 3,000+ users served // 9 live products // 100% on-device AI

01 Featured Work

// case studies

case management · aws

ATA Law Firm

Laravel Vue.js AWS MySQL

Designed and built a complete case management system on AWS — case tracking, document automation, and a secure client portal used in active legal practice.

Impact: Replaced spreadsheet-based workflows for an entire firm.

civic tech · laravel

E-PDS & Tourism Dashboard

Laravel Vue.js MySQL SQL Server

Civil servant records platform and tourism analytics dashboard for the Province of Surigao del Sur. Digitized 500+ employee 201 files and modernized the team's workflow onto Git and code review.

Impact: Replaced filing cabinets and Excel sheets. Still in production across provincial offices.

ai · ctranslate2 · python

Offline AI Transcriber

Python CTranslate2 Whisper PyQt

Local-first speech-to-text with real-time waveform feedback. Runs entirely on-device — no audio ever leaves the machine. Built for sensitive legal/medical contexts.

Impact: Zero cloud dependency. Faster than cloud STT on modern CPUs.

university platform · laravel + go

NEMSU Data Hub

Laravel Vue.js Go ClamAV S3 Google Workspace

Google Drive-style platform unifying every NEMSU campus. Resumable uploads via a Go tus service, ClamAV scanning, Go-signed PDF documents, S3 + local hybrid storage, and in-place editing of Google Sheets and Docs.

Impact: Centralized university records and shared files across faculty and students.

game server · security hardening

Dragonica Spidpex

Laravel Vue.js Socket.io Cloudflare Security

Joined a Dragonica private server as a player. Stayed on as the engineer hardening web auth, the cash shop, and the perimeter against the common attacks script kiddies actually run.

Impact: Closed the credential, XSS, CSRF, and cash-shop race holes that were costing players accounts and items.

02 Trusted By

// what clients say

"Chris took our entire firm off spreadsheets and onto a real platform. Case tracking, document automation, and the client portal have been running daily for over a year without drama. He handled the full build, AWS setup, and rollout to our team."

[ATA Law Firm — Principal Attorney] // atafirm.ph · case management on AWS

"Christopher modernized our internal systems and brought the team onto Git and proper deployment workflow. The E-PDS records platform and tourism dashboard he built are still in production use across the province."

[Province of Surigao del Sur — IT Supervisor] // civil servant records · analytics dashboard

03 Fun Projects

// 2–3hr side builds

Claude Usage Meter Open Source

Desktop system tray app for Claude Code usage limits. Real-time, no hardware required.

JavaScript·Electron·System Tray

Repository Cleaner Open Source

Terminal-based GitHub repo manager. Browse, search, mark, and bulk-delete repositories with an animated progress bar. Vim-style bindings and real-time filter from the terminal.

Go·Bubbletea·Lipgloss·GitHub API

Real-time RPS Demo

Multiplayer rock-paper-scissors with live socket sync

Node.js·Socket.io

Uptime Juna Private

Self-hosted uptime monitor for personal services. Checks endpoints on a schedule, surfaces incidents, and pings me when something falls over.

Laravel·Vue·Cron

Bicycle Rent Timer App

Android rental timing app with sales tracking, live on Google Play

Java·Android

04 Experience

// 2018 — present

2023 — present

Freelance Software Engineer

Self-employed

Built ATA Law Firm's case management system on AWS — case tracking, document automation, and a secure client portal used in active legal practice.
Built an offline AI transcription tool with CTranslate2 and Python — local speech-to-text with real-time waveform feedback, zero cloud dependency.
Launched Dragonica Spidpex, a live gaming platform with player accounts and community features, built with Laravel and Vue.js.
Launched 10+ community gaming websites for Flyff — a popular online RPG — filling a gap before the game's official platform existed, each with player registration, item shops, and active user bases.

Jan 2021 — Dec 2023

Software Engineer

Province of Surigao del Sur

Built the province's E-PDS system and tourism analytics dashboard — digitizing civil servant records and tracking visitor data for provincial planning.
Diagnosed and fixed performance bottlenecks in legacy government applications, improving response times on high-traffic reporting views.
Introduced Git/GitHub and modern dev tooling to the team — standardizing workflows and cutting integration friction across ongoing government projects.
Mentored team members on Laravel fundamentals and production deployment — server environments, CI pipelines, and live release procedures.
Built and delivered a suite of internal government tools — including insurance deduction processing (GSIS), tax reporting integration (BIR), an SMS notification service, and a mobile app for employee records and 201 files — reducing manual paperwork across provincial offices.

Jul — Aug 2018

Intern Developer

NEMSU

Built a faculty evaluation web app with Python NLP sentiment analysis, used by 3,000+ students and staff.
Turned evaluation data into sentiment reports used by faculty to identify and address teaching gaps.
Collaborated with the university's in-house developer — introduced Laravel as a framework for rapid development, demonstrated its advantages, and co-ideated features that went from whiteboard to production during the internship.
Coached students on their research projects — guided capstone teams through system design, tech stack decisions, and implementation, helping them turn academic requirements into working software.

05 Skills & Stack

// what i reach for

Backend PHP / Laravel, Spatie packages, Node.js, MySQL, SQL Server, REST APIs, Socket.io

Frontend Vue.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, Inertia.js, HTML / CSS / JS

AI & ML Python, CTranslate2, Whisper, NLP, Speech-to-Text

DevOps & Tools Git, AWS, Docker, PHPUnit, Linux

Other Languages Java (Android), Go, C# (.NET)

06 Hire Me

// freelance & contract

Bring me in for the hard parts.

I take on full-stack projects end-to-end — from spec to deployment — and I'm especially useful when there's a legacy system to modernize or AI to integrate without leaking data to the cloud.

Full-stack web apps

Laravel + Vue, end-to-end. From spec to deployment.

Government / enterprise systems

Records management, case tracking, internal tools.

AI integration

Offline / on-prem speech, NLP, and inference pipelines.

Legacy modernization

Rescuing slow PHP systems. Profiling, refactoring, scaling.

DevOps & deployment

AWS setup, CI/CD pipelines, server hardening.

Code review & mentoring

Team upskilling, workflow standardization, technical docs.