I build apps, and I play guitar. I’m the founder of Tahanan, where Filipinos around the world learn Tagalog, and Xylo Software, the studio behind it.
Before that I spent nine years as a software engineer at DraftKings, Focused Labs, Mandolin, and Hyland. I’m Fil-Am, I live in Cleveland, and I’m a cat dad of three.
Founder
Tahanan means home. It’s the Tagalog app I wish I’d had growing up: lessons built around family, practice calls you take out loud, and real coaches from the Philippines. It’s rated 4.7 on the App Store, it’s profitable, and it’s growing fast.
Founder
My independent app studio. I lead a small remote team of talented, passionate people, and together we build consumer apps for very different audiences: Tahanan for heritage learners, MobilityLibrary for anyone who wants to move better, Backlined for touring bands, and Tigris for private calorie tracking.
Native iOS in Swift, SwiftUI, and TCA. React Native, React, Next.js, and Node on the web. Kotlin, Rails, and Postgres when the backend needs it. I’ve also run scrum teams and mentored engineers.
Founder
Building and growing our own consumer apps with a small remote team.
Senior Software Engineer
Led the native iOS SDKs behind several DraftKings apps, moved a Xamarin codebase to native Swift, and wrote the technical designs used by a group of 50 engineers.
Software Engineering Consultant
Shipped a React Native app to a client’s 500k+ existing customers. iOS installs grew 600% in the first two weeks, and in-app promotions lifted sales 23% year over year.
Software Engineer
Built artist tools for a live music platform that grew from 100K to over 1M users while I was there, and was named Pollstar’s Best Live Streaming Platform of 2021.
Software Developer and Scrum Master
Released hybrid mobile apps with Face ID sign-in to over 20,000 customers, and led the team’s scrum ceremonies.
B.S. Computer Science
Graduated top of my class in computer science and received the Math and Computer Science Department’s award for academic excellence. Dean’s List all four years, and a teaching assistant for intro CS courses.
For six years I played lead guitar and sang backup in Who Saved Who, an indie rock band from Cleveland. We put out a full-length album, Sharing the Daytime Moon, plus a run of EPs and singles on every streaming platform, and we toured all over the Midwest.
I’ve stepped away from the band, but music is still a big part of who I am.
