Freelance Software Engineer2024 – Present
Independent contractorSurigao del Sur, PH
Case management platform for a law firm | Laravel, Vue, Inertia, MySQL, AWSCase study
- Built it solo in 4 months; up to 10 attorneys and staff use it daily instead of spreadsheets.
- Billing, document templates, role-based access, and a client portal with an audit trail.
Multi-campus data hub for a state university | Laravel, Go, Vue, MySQL, ONLYOFFICECase study
- Drive-style file and submissions platform, live on all 4 campuses, with ONLYOFFICE editing.
- Wrote Go services for resumable uploads, ClamAV virus scanning and X.509 PDF signing.
Software Engineer2021 – 2024
Province of Surigao del SurTandag, PH
- Built E-PDS (500+ civil-servant records) and a tourism dashboard, replacing paper and Excel.
- Cut report load times by ~60% by fixing N+1 queries and adding indexes.
- Wrote an offline Whisper transcriber the provincial board still uses for confidential sessions.
- Half-day payroll tasks became one click: GSIS deductions, BIR tax reports, SMS notices, and a Java Android app for 201 files.
- Brought in Git, code review and CI/CD, and mentored 3 engineers.
Intern Developer, North Eastern Mindanao State UniversityJul – Aug 2018
- Developed a faculty evaluation app used by 3,000+ students, with Python sentiment analysis.