About me

Experience

1. Mar 2026 – Present

   Co-founder

   Flagship Studios PH · Part-time

   • Overall project director of the studio's two-person team, owning direction, scope and production for Marketeer.
   • Main game designer of Marketeer, a cozy shop sim and dating sim built in Unity.
   • Lead gameplay programmer, building all runtime systems: character controller, NPC AI, grid system, layering, pathfinding, saving and UI.
   • Build the custom tools the team uses to develop Marketeer.

2. Nov 2025 – Jun 2026

   Senior UI Engineer

   DryadLLC · Remote · Part-time · San Francisco, US

   • Owned the replacement of a hard-to-maintain legacy UI, rebuilding it from the ground up in Gum for Dryad, a 2D island-building adventure that shipped on Steam in July 2026.
   • Delivered 20+ screens that are easy to extend and scale to any window size.
   • Wrote the UI in plain C# on MonoGame, along with the data layer that connects game data to the new screens.
   • Implemented gameplay features, including systems built around the game's relics.

3. Jan 2026 – Jun 2026

   Senior Software Engineer

   Series AI · Remote · Part-time · San Francisco, US

   • Contract gameplay engineer on a team rapidly prototyping games for an AI-focused games company.
   • Contributed to a multiplayer social "hangout" game, similar in spirit to Roblox, using WebSockets.
   • Owned the UI integration and prompt protection for an AI character chatbot app.
   • Took ownership of Grimlight, a survivors-like whose AI-generated codebase had outgrown the AI tools' context window, then fixed and optimized it.

4. Jun 2025 – Dec 2025

   Senior Unity Developer / Senior XR Developer

   Hogarth Manila · Remote · Full-time · Manila, PH

   • Owned UI implementation and systems architecture end to end for a Type 1 Diabetes VR simulation used by 2,000+ users.
   • Led development of a COPD VR exhibit shown to 4,000+ attendees at US medical conventions.
   • Built a VR maze game with cloud-based integrations for a major global cloud computing provider, for high-traffic tech conferences.
   • Senior XR developer on a cross-continental production with US studio Subvrsive, mentoring teammates and reviewing code.

5. Nov 2021 – Feb 2025

   Software Engineer → Senior Game Developer

   Captain.tv · Remote · Full-time · San Francisco, US

   • Full-stack developer on live games serving millions of players, including Stream Raiders (40,000+ streamers), Stream Pirates and Nitro Stream Racing.
   • Part of the team that launched Arena Kingdoms on Discord as one of the platform's early games.
   • Owned the backend and server data infrastructure behind Stream Pirates (Redis, SQL, MongoDB) and made the server about 80% faster.
   • Built core gameplay and scalable UI systems in Unity, owning features from prototype to live operations.

6. May 2020 – Oct 2021

   Game Developer / Software Engineer

   AmuseTech · Remote · Full-time · Manila, PH

   • Unity developer on Pokertime, a real-money online poker game, owning most of the front end through its conversion from Phaser to Unity.
   • Built the network layer that communicates with the backend over WebSockets.
   • Implemented the wallet and face recognition, and handled payment and crypto-related modules.

7. Jul 2019 – May 2020

   Unity Developer / Software Engineer

   NarraSoft Corporation · On-site · Full-time · Manila, PH

   • Programmed a 3D wrestling game and built gameplay for a 2D puzzle game.
   • Set up shaders on 3D objects and Timeline animations for trailers.
   • Updated the UI of a 3D Unreal Engine game using Coherent UI.

Earlier

• Game Developer, Metamedia · 2017 – 2019
• QA Engineer, Xceed Studio by Skywind · 2018 – 2019
• Technical QA Engineer, Anino Inc. · 2016 – 2018

Education

BS Information Technology, specialization in Animation and Game Development
FEU Institute of Technology · 2012 – 2017