About me.
Backend engineer by trade, nature chaser by choice. I build APIs, cloud infra, and the occasional CLI tool that saves me 10 minutes a week.
Outside of code I'm usually in the water — surfing, diving, swimming — or somewhere on a trail. The Philippines is a ridiculous place to have adventurous hobbies and I'm taking full advantage.
Right now I'm deep in On This Day PH and experimenting with AI-assisted development workflows. My blog documents both.
Featured Projects.
Things I've built and shipped.
A platform celebrating Philippine historical moments, one day at a time. Surfaces rarely-told stories and events from Philippine history aligned to today's date.
Exploring Crystal language for high-performance backend services. Testing compile-time safety with Ruby-like syntax for API microservices.
Latest from the blog.
AI coding experiments + lifestyle dispatches.
How Claude Code Changed the Way I Debug
I used to spend hours reading stack traces. Now I pair-program with an AI that reads them faster than I do — and explains them like a senior dev would.
I Tried Surfing. Here's What Coding Didn't Prepare Me For.
The ocean doesn't care how many commits you have. Humbling, exhausting, and completely addictive.
Beyond the keyboard.
When I close the laptop.