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Where I've worked

7 yrs 5 mos total

Aug 2025 — Present · 1 yr 2 mos

Full-time

PHP Developer

OmniQuest, Inc. · Philippines

Full-stack PHP engineer focused on developing business applications, building API integrations, and improving the quality, security, and reliability of production systems.

  • Develop and maintain business applications built with CodeIgniter 3 & 4, delivering new features, modernizing existing modules, and supporting business-critical operations.
  • Build and integrate backend solutions, including Meta Webhooks and third-party APIs, to automate business workflows and improve system interoperability.
  • Improve application quality by resolving SonarQube code issues, implementing SEO enhancements, troubleshooting production issues, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver secure, maintainable, and scalable web applications.
  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • JavaScript
  • jQuery

Nov 2024 — Apr 2025 · 6 mos

Full-time

Full Stack Developer

MedProjects, Inc. · Philippines

Full-stack Laravel development focused on healthcare applications, API integrations, application security, and production stability.

  • Enhanced and maintained healthcare applications by delivering new features, resolving production issues, and improving system stability for hospital and healthcare users.
  • Improved application security by resolving code quality findings, addressing security vulnerabilities, and implementing secure coding practices across existing Laravel applications.
  • Developed full-stack features using Laravel and modern frontend technologies, integrating RESTful APIs and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver secure, scalable, and maintainable healthcare solutions.
  • Laravel
  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • AngularJS
  • Tailwind CSS
  • TypeScript

Feb 2019 — Jun 2024 · 5 yrs 5 mos

Full-time

Web Developer

Inclusive Financial Technologies, Inc. · Philippines

Full-stack Laravel development across lending and insurance platforms, with a focus on application development, database design, API integrations, and production support.

  • Contributed to rebuilding a legacy lending platform into a Laravel application, redesigning business workflows and restructuring the database architecture to support a modern peer-to-peer lending system.
  • Developed and maintained a vehicle insurance renewal platform that digitized manual encoding processes for insurance providers, delivering new features and enhancements while supporting day-to-day business operations.
  • Implemented new features, integrated third-party APIs, optimized MySQL queries, resolved production issues, and collaborated with cross-functional Agile teams to deliver scalable and reliable Laravel applications.
  • Laravel
  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • jQuery
  • JavaScript
  • Vue.js
  • Nuxt.js
  • PestPHP
  • PHPUnit

Oct 2018 — Feb 2019 · 5 mos

Freelance

Web Developer

Acuity Technologies, Inc. · Philippines

Full-stack development focused on rebuilding legacy PHP applications, improving backend architecture, and delivering reliable production web applications.

  • Rebuilt a legacy parking management and shared parking platform using Laravel, replacing a custom PHP MVC framework with a more maintainable application architecture.
  • Redesigned business workflows and restructured the database schema to support new requirements and simplify ongoing development.
  • Tested and hardened API endpoints using Postman, identifying and addressing security issues including XSS vulnerabilities.
  • Delivered a production-ready replacement while preserving existing business requirements and improving application reliability and maintainability.
  • Laravel
  • PHP
  • JavaScript
  • MySQL
  • jQuery