Civilizations & Institutions
How societies construct governance, trade routes, administrative records, and lasting institutions to manage scale, handle resource constraints, and preserve continuity across generations.
IDENTITY
ABOUT
Work is one part of identity, not the frame that holds everything else.
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WORK
Full-stack development, software architecture, and system reliability.
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FITNESS
Running, swimming, movement, calisthenics, and physical challenge.
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TRAVEL
Spontaneous trips, street food, unplanned walks, and local discovery.
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IDEAS & HISTORY
Civilizations, infrastructure evolution, historiography, and systems.
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MAKING & TINKERING
Personal software experiments, side tools, containers, and testing boundaries.
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GAMES
Strategy, RPGs, simulation mechanics, and worldbuilding systems.
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MUSIC
Focus soundscapes, ambient, post-rock, electronic, and daily rotation.
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MANGA & ANIME
Manga, Manhwa, Manhua, Manfra, Anime, Isekai, Murim, and Regression stories.
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PHOTOGRAPHY
Street scenes, architectural geometry, landscape light, and candid moments.
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READING
Technical references, engineering history, philosophy, manga, and research.
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WORK
Full-stack development with a focus on system organization, application structure, and operational clarity.
Most of my professional work is in full-stack development, but I tend to think beyond the page or feature itself-how the application is structured, how data moves, how it is deployed, how failures are observed, and how future changes will affect the system.
HOW I THINK
- 01 Reliability and clarity over novelty.
- 02 Understand the system before changing it.
- 03 Decisions should be justified by evidence and constraints.
- 04 Maintainability matters more than unnecessary cleverness.
- 05 Prefer the simplest solution that actually solves the problem.
- 06 Technical debt should be intentional and understood.
CAREER DIRECTION
Long term, I am growing toward Full-Stack Systems Architecture: staying hands-on with application development while becoming better at connecting software structure, infrastructure, reliability, data, and technical decisions.
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FITNESS
Fitness is less about one sport and more about staying physically capable and giving myself something measurable to work against.
RUN
RUN
DISTANCE & RACES
MEDALS COUNT
12 Race Medals Earned
FARTHEST DISTANCE
21.1 km (Half-Marathon)
SWIM
SWIM
POOL LAPS
CONTINUOUS DISTANCE
50m Continuous Swim
ENVIRONMENT
Pool Laps
HIKE
HIKE
MOUNTAIN TRAIL LOG
MOUNTAINS SUMMITED
8 Peaks Summited
HIGHEST MOUNTAIN
Mt. Pulag (2,928m)
MOST DIFFICULT
Mt. Arayat
TRAIN
TRAIN
CONSISTENCY & GYM
"Consistency over intensity-progress is built in the daily reps when no one is watching."
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HEALTH & LONGEVITY
Maintaining baseline physical energy, cardiovascular resilience, and mobility for life and work.
ROUTINE & DISCIPLINE
Consistent weekly habits-early morning pavement miles, pool laps, trail hikes, and structured calisthenics.
PERSONAL CHALLENGE
Setting objective metrics and pushing endurance boundaries without competing against others.
SELF-COMPETITION
Measuring personal progress against past benchmarks to build mental resilience.
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TRAVEL & EXPLORATION
I like travel most when it feels exploratory rather than scheduled around landmarks-trying food, walking somewhere unfamiliar, finding places unexpectedly, and doing activities that make a trip feel distinct from everyday life.
CULTURE & LOCAL FOOD
Trying regional dishes, street food markets, and spontaneous small places recommended by locals rather than tourist guides.
UNPLANNED WALKS
Walking through neighborhoods off the main itinerary to observe daily life, architectural details, and quiet side streets.
NATURE & OUTDOORS
Seeking outdoor trails, coastal walks, and natural environments that offer open horizon and physical contrast to indoor coding.
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IDEAS & HISTORY
I'm interested in how ideas, technologies, systems, and civilizations evolve-and in the records, decisions, infrastructure, and competing interpretations they leave behind.
Infrastructure & Engineering History
The evolution of physical and technical networks-aqueducts, maritime shipping, railways, telegraphs, and early computing hardware-and how real constraints shaped trade-offs.
Records & Evidence
How historical records are preserved, how different parties interpret the same historical event, and the crucial distinction between primary evidence and later secondary narratives.
Practical Philosophy & Consequences
Human behavior under real constraints, moral frameworks, decision-making under uncertainty, and evaluating technical or societal choices by their long-term consequences.
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MAKING & TINKERING
Outside formal employment, I often learn technology by building something small enough to break, rebuild, compare, or deliberately stress.
LOG :: EXPERIMENT 01
CONTAINERS & NETWORKING
QUESTION / HYPOTHESIS
What happens during multi-container orchestration, local network isolation, and automated database seed routines?
TEST ENVIRONMENT
Configured custom Docker Compose stack with isolated bridge networks, healthchecks, and migration containers.
LEARNED / OUTCOME
Container networking overhead is negligible compared to the reproducible configuration and isolation benefits.
LOG :: EXPERIMENT 02
SYSTEM BOUNDARIES
QUESTION / HYPOTHESIS
How do modular service boundaries behave under local cloud service mocks?
TEST ENVIRONMENT
Built local API mock layers simulating message queue consumers and cloud object storage responses.
LEARNED / OUTCOME
Strict data contracts at service boundaries prevent subtle integration bugs before deployment.
LOG :: EXPERIMENT 03
SECURITY LABS
QUESTION / HYPOTHESIS
Where should security filtering and HTTP header enforcement take place in web streams?
TEST ENVIRONMENT
Inspected raw HTTP traffic, header validation, and credential token handling at proxy vs application layer.
LEARNED / OUTCOME
Defensive input filtering and security header enforcement must occur at application entry points.
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GAMES
Appreciation for systems, worldbuilding, and mechanics across strategy, RPGs, simulation, and survival games.
FAVORITES
Strategy & Simulation
Role-Playing Games
Survival & Crafting
Story-Driven
CURRENTLY INTO
No Man's Sky
Assassin's Creed Series
Forza Series
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MUSIC
High-energy party, hype, and dance tracks spanning international beats-primarily English dance & club hits alongside J-Dance, K-Pop hype, heavy OPM representation, select global bangers, and indie discoveries.
GENRES & FAVS
CURRENT ROTATION
- 01 Global Party & Hype Dance Rotation
- 02 OPM Heavy & Pinoy Indie Discoveries
- 03 J-Dance, K-Pop & International Club Hits
- 04 Small Artists & Underground High-Energy Beats
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MANGA, MANHWA, MANHUA, MANFRA & ANIME
Reading and watching stories spanning Japanese Manga, Korean Manhwa, Chinese Manhua, French Manfra, and Anime-focusing on reincarnation, regression, cultivation, fantasy worlds, Murim martial arts, and high-stakes action.
MANHWA
MANGA
MANHUA
MANFRA
ANIME
ISEKAI
REGRESSION
MURIM
REINCARNATION
FAVORITES
Isekai / Fantasy Series
Worldbuilding / Magic
Regression / Murim Series
Martial Arts / Strategy
High-Stakes Action
Animation / Combat
Reincarnation Adventure
Fantasy / GrowthCURRENTLY INTO
Magic Emperor
Demonic Cultivation / Strategy
Revenge of the Sword Clan's Hound
Regression / Revenge Action
Eternally Regressing Knight
Regression / Dark Fantasy
I Became the Tyrant of a Defense Game
Isekai / Defense Strategy
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PHOTOGRAPHY
Capturing moments as they happen-street scenes, architectural geometry, landscape light, local food, and technical details without staged production.
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READING
A mix of technical reference, engineering history, philosophy, manga, and long-form research.
FAVORITES
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System Architecture & Software Fundamentals
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Civilization & Infrastructure History
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Favorite Manga / Comic Series
CURRENTLY INTO
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Distributed Systems & Observability Reference
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Practical Philosophy & Decision Making
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Current Ongoing Manga Release
Some of these interests become projects, some stay hobbies, and some simply give me something new to understand.
Manila, Philippines · Open to Remote