About
I'm Neel, a software engineer from Dipolog City. Over the past year I've built six systems for local businesses and schools: an ERP for a service company, a document request system for a college registrar, an inventory for a school department, a POS for an appliance store, a parking app and a ride-hailing platform.
During the day I work at Scalepo as a software engineer on C#/.NET, Angular and MS SQL. At home I run a small homelab where I self-host the things I build and break them on purpose to see how they hold up.
01How I Work
Case Studies →- I Start With How the Work Gets Done TodaySpreadsheets, group chats, paper forms. Seeing those first tells me what the software actually has to replace.
- I Build the Whole ThingFrontend, API, database, deployment and monitoring. One person knowing how it all fits makes changes faster later.
- I Leave It Easy to Pick UpTests, migrations and setup notes live in the repo, so the next developer is not starting from zero.
- I Stay After LaunchI keep an eye on logs and alerts once it's live and fix what comes up.
02What I'm Exploring
Lately it's mostly AI agents, and how to make them genuinely useful inside the everyday software I already build without giving them more access than they need. I try ideas out in my homelab first, and the ones that work end up in real projects.
03Timeline
Résumé →Built and fixed desktop computers with my dad, then got hooked on HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Started my BS in Computer Science in Dipolog and took my first job in customer support.
Logos, social graphics and short videos for small businesses and creators.
Software engineer on enterprise features in .NET, Angular and MS SQL, including LLM-backed workflows.
ERP, registrar, inventory, POS, parking and ride-hailing, each designed, built and run by me.
Backend for a community media organisation. Also won Hack 4 Gov at the provincial level.