Lead Software Engineer — Manila, PH
The system between the user and the journey.
For eight years I’ve built the invisible parts of software — payments infrastructure in MENA banking, real-time SaaS backends, and now the platform behind millions of rides across the Philippines. If it works, you never think about it. That’s the point.
01 — Beginnings
Freelance work across e-commerce, media, and agritech — learning to ship alone.
02 — Larger systems
Fintech, healthcare, real-time SaaS — longer-running problems, higher stakes.
03 — Now, Angkas
User management, authentication, third-party integrations — services that hold up when the app is busy.
Toolkit
GogRPCPHP / LaravelTypeScriptPythonRustKubernetesAWSDockerMicroservices
“Software engineering is collective knowledge. Every day is a learning process.”