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Full-stack developer from San Jose del Monte, Bulacan, Philippines. Remote-friendly, always building.

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Who I am

Full-stack developer focused on building and shipping production web and Android applications. Experienced in turning designs into complete products across frontend, backend, mobile, and infrastructure, building production software since my college years. Strong focus on TypeScript, SvelteKit, Next.js, PostgreSQL, and Capacitor.

Work history

Where I've worked

Full-Stack Developer

Smartago LLC (Wilmington, DE, US · UniStar.BG Ltd subsidiary) · 08/2025 — 06/2026 · additional work for the same client group

  • Developed and shipped 7 Android and web apps to the Google Play Store, implementing client Figma designs end-to-end.
  • Leading app "XAPK Installer APK Downloader" surpassed 500k+ downloads on mobile, tablet, and Android TV; two Android TV apps passed 100k+ downloads each.
  • Integrated Capacitor with SvelteKit to ship one codebase to both the Web and native Android.
  • Integrated Google Play Billing with idempotent purchase verification and RTDN webhook endpoints that synchronize purchase lifecycle events (purchased, renewed, cancelled, expired) to the database.

Full-Stack Developer

UniStar.BG Ltd (Gotse Delchev, Bulgaria) · 01/2025 — 06/2026 · long-term remote engagement via Upwork

  • Developed web automation and scraping pipelines for a prototype app store, scraping the web for APKs with thousands of scrapes per day.
  • Built a parallel queue task system (worker pooling) to process the scraped data, with incremental database scaling as usage grew.
  • Created a full admin panel on PostgreSQL with Drizzle ORM: app CMS with multi-language support (manual, DeepL, and Gemini AI translation), order and sales management, and usage statistics.
  • Managed production deployment on Plesk and Webuzo (including VM deployment and cloning) and a monorepo with optimized CI/CD.

Education

BS in Information Technology

Bulacan State University - Sarmiento Campus

July 2025 · Magna Cum Laude

Languages

Filipino

Native

English

Proficient

Accomplishment

Registered our university capstone project, "Door Lock Module", with the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) in February 2026.

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Skills

What I work with

Frontend

JavaScript / TypeScript SvelteKit Svelte Next.js React Tailwind CSS SCSS / CSS HTML

Backend

Node.js Supabase Firebase PocketBase PostgreSQL MySQL PHP Drizzle ORM

Mobile

Capacitor Google Play Billing Progressive Web Apps Google Play deployment

Hosting & DevOps

Vercel Render Cloudflare Pages Plesk Webuzo Nginx VPS CI/CD Monorepo Git

AI & APIs

OpenAI API Google AI Studio API DeepSeek API LLM prompt engineering REST APIs

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