Full-Stack Web Development
Production backends + web apps. APIs, services, dashboards.
- TypeScript/Node
- React
- NestJS
- Express
- Go (Gin)
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- MySQL
Ship a real backend, not a prototype — event-driven, tested, documented.
Full-Stack, Cloud & Automation Engineer
I ship production systems in weeks, not quarters — and they hold up.
Full-stack, cloud, and automation engineer for founders who need it built, shipped, and running — by one person who owns all three.
Available for new builds MNL (GMT+8) · same-day reply
Magna cum laude CS · Full-stack developer at a fintech payments platform
- AWS
- Terraform
- Go
- TypeScript
- NestJS
- Docker
- PostgreSQL
- Datadog
What I build
Three lanes, one owner
Pick the lane you need — or hand me the whole thing. I ship it end to end.
Automation & Integrations
CI/CD pipelines, workflow automation, API glue between tools, event-driven services — shipped fast.
- GitHub Actions
- Docker
- MongoDB Change Streams
- AWS SQS/SES/EventBridge
- Shell
Kill the manual work. Automate deploys, data sync, and ops so your team stops babysitting.
Cloud / DevOps
AWS infrastructure, IaC, migrations, cost optimization, observability.
- AWS (ECS/ECR/RDS/S3/SQS)
- Terraform
- Docker
- Datadog APM
- Sentry
- Linux
Provision it right and cut cloud spend — infrastructure as code, monitored, shipped fast.
How I work
No ghosting, no babysitting
The overseas-hire fears — slow, silent, no ownership. Here's the opposite.
Fast turnaround
GenAI-accelerated SDLC. I move from requirements to deploy quickly, without shipping junk.
End-to-end ownership
One person owns the whole system — built, shipped, kept running. I build for clients, not just employers.
Clear async comms
Fluent English, same-day replies in your working hours (US/AU/EU overlap). You never wonder if I'm still on it.
Documents everything
Runbooks, READMEs, and IaC so nothing lives only in my head.
Testimonials
What it's like to hire me
Straight from the people I've shipped for.
“Paul works very independently and delivers high-quality work, always thinking long-term by default. He's strong at moving new work into the existing architecture and the bigger-picture system, and proactively improves things when there's time.”
Selected work
Shipped, measured, real
Anonymized where required, real metrics throughout.
CI/CD pipeline + multi-env infrastructure
GitHub Actions pipeline for all microservices; 3–4 isolated VPS environments (Dev/Staging/Prod/Experimental) with Docker Compose; centralized secrets via GCP Secrets Manager.
Deploy time cut 80% — 10 min → 2 min
Automated tax-compliant invoicing integration
Built a Go service on AWS ECS that aggregates each day's payment transactions into a single record and kicks off invoice generation on a government tax-compliant e-invoicing platform via chained API calls. Replaced fully manual invoice creation.
10k+ payments/month auto-invoiced · killed a 1+ day manual process for 100+ merchants
Standardized IaC + CI/CD for 10+ APIs
Reusable Terraform modules and CI/CD workflows across 10+ customer-facing APIs.
66% faster provisioning · $7,600+ projected annual savings
Legacy API → scalable Go service
Owned full lifecycle: replaced a legacy API with a scalable Go service on AWS SES/SQS/DynamoDB. All infra via Terraform. Used GenAI to accelerate SDLC from requirements → deploy.
~$4.7k/yr projected savings
Go backend restructure
Led full backend restructure of a Go codebase; improved logging, Sentry integrated. Designed the team's first CI/CD pipeline (AWS ECS/EC2/ECR + GitHub Actions).
+15% query performance · +20% dev throughput
Products
Products I've built
Side projects and tools I've shipped end to end.
ArchSmith
A system-design simulator that estimates how components perform under load — and what they cost.
FlowTabs
An i3-style tabbed-layout window manager — organize windows into keyboard-driven tabbed workspaces.
About
Who you're hiring
I'm Paul — a full-stack, cloud, and automation engineer. I build production systems and ship them fast, then keep them clean and running.
Magna cum laude, BS Computer Science (Adamson University). Currently a full-stack developer at a fintech payments platform, with a mix of contract and full-time work across four companies — I ship for clients, not just employers.
Philippines-based (GMT+8), comfortable working async with overlapping hours for US, AU, and EU teams.
Skills
The full toolbox
- Languages
- Go TypeScript/JavaScript Shell/Bash
- Cloud
- AWS (ECS, ECR, Aurora/RDS, S3, SQS, SES, DynamoDB, EventBridge, CloudWatch, CodePipeline, CodeBuild)
- IaC / DevOps
- Terraform Docker Docker Compose GitHub Actions AWS CodePipeline
- Observability
- Datadog APM Continuous Profiler CloudWatch Dashboards Sentry
- Frameworks
- React NestJS Express Node.js Gin
- Databases
- PostgreSQL Aurora PostgreSQL MySQL MongoDB DynamoDB
- Practices
- Event-driven architecture Microservices CI/CD Cloud cost optimization AI-accelerated SDLC
Contact
Let's scope it.
Senior, full-stack engineering direct — no agency layer, no handoffs. Tell me what you're building and I'll give you a straight answer on approach, timeline, and cost.