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Full-stack Web Application Developer

I help companies ship reliable, delightful web experiences end to end.

Cebu, Philippines

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About

DL

Hi — I'm Donde Lapera, a full-stack web application developer based in Cebu, Philippines. I help companies take features from idea to production, end to end, sweating the details that make software feel reliable.

The delightful part is where I have the most fun. I'm drawn to the more playful, expressive side of the craft — creative development, creative coding, and game development — tinkering with HTML5 Canvas, p5.js, and Three.js. Truth be told, I'm still a wannabe creative developer, chasing the pixels and having a blast doing it — but it's what keeps the experiences I build feeling alive, not just functional.

This is my home base; my project work lives over on my portfolio.

Skills

Languages
TypeScriptJavaScriptPythonSQL
Frameworks
SvelteKitNext.jsNest.js
Styling
CSSTailwind CSS
Creative Coding
HTML5 Canvasp5.jsThree.js
Tools & Platforms
GitDockerVercelPostgreSQLClaude Code

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Experience

  • May 2024 — Feb 2025

    Web Application Developer (Front-end / Back-end)

    Asuene (Contractor)

    Contract full-stack work on an enterprise climate / carbon-accounting SaaS and its carbon-credit trading platform (CarbonEX).

    • Asuene platform — CarbonEX back-end API integration for the corporate carbon-emissions cloud (Laravel, NestJS, Nuxt, i18n).
    • CarbonEX API — carbon-credit / emissions-trading platform API (NestJS, Prisma, PostgreSQL).
    • CarbonEX admin & client apps — trading-platform front-ends (Nuxt, Vue 3 Composition API).
    • CarbonEX landing page & media site (Nuxt/Vue; WordPress + Tailwind CSS).

  • Feb 2023 — Apr 2024

    Web Application Developer (Front-end / Back-end)

    42Race (Contractor)

    Contract full-stack work on a fitness RPG game (back-end + admin) and an event-campaign CMS.

    • TinyPets — back-end API for a running/exercise RPG game with Google Maps (NestJS, Mongoose, MongoDB, Google API, SendGrid).
    • TinyPets admin panel — game configuration UI (Next.js, MUI, Redux Toolkit).
    • 42Campaign — lightweight CMS for client event landing pages (Express.js, Mongoose, Salesforce & UOB APIs).

  • Mar 2019 — Feb 2023

    Senior Full-Stack Web Application Developer

    Coinspect / Therma Philippines, Inc.

    Senior full-stack engineer on an IoT temperature-monitoring product and related tools, spanning data-heavy dashboards and microservices.

    • Therma Monitoring — flagship IoT product for sensor data management and monitoring (React, TypeScript, Express/NestJS, PostgreSQL, InfluxDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, TypeORM, microservices).
    • Therma Heatmap (R&D) — 3D building heat-mapping prototype (React Three Fiber, Three.js, Blender).
    • Therma Integration — connected monitoring to e-commerce and marketing tools (Serverless, AWS SQS, RabbitMQ, Shopify, HubSpot, Webflow).
    • Coinspect Checklist — the company's first product, a restaurant inspection checklist (Sails.js, Node.js, PostgreSQL).

  • Apr 2021 — Aug 2021

    Web Application Developer (Front-end) · Freelance

    Korbit.ai

    Freelance front-end work building an internal content-authoring platform for teachers.

    • Teacher platform — internal content editor with rich-text and math input (React, Ant Design, Redux, TinyMCE, KaTeX).

  • May 2018 — Oct 2018

    Full-Stack Developer (Front-end / Back-end / Mobile)

    Bluefrog Content and Support, Inc.

    Full-stack and mobile work for online-casino platforms: data buffering, live dealer streaming, and native dealer apps.

    • Game data buffer — real-time casino data buffer (Node.js, Redis, MongoDB).
    • Dealer live streaming — casino dealer video streaming (Node.js, FFmpeg, Electron.js, Wowza, HTML5 Canvas).
    • Dealer phone app — native app for players to call dealers (iOS Swift, Android Java/Kotlin).

  • May 2017 — May 2018

    Web Developer (Front-end / Back-end)

    DesignDeliCo

    Client websites and internal tooling across front-end and back-end.

    • Client websites — front-end sites (Node.js, Cosmic.js, WordPress, Bootstrap).
    • Internal project — back-end tooling and data crawler (Express.js, Laravel/PHP, MySQL).

  • Jul 2016 — Apr 2017

    Web Developer (Front-end / Back-end)

    CodeRepubliq

    Web and mobile-API development for shopping and insurance applications.

    • Blutag — mobile shopping app API (Node.js, Express, MongoDB, Elasticsearch).
    • FPG Insurance — car-insurance mobile app API (Node.js, Express, MongoDB).
    • EnVogue — shopping web app built through an Angular 1 → 2+ migration.

  • Mar 2015 — Jun 2016

    Web Developer (Front-end / Back-end)

    Bluefrog Content and Support, Inc.

    Websites, web apps, and browser / Flash games for online-casino clients.

    • Baccarat game — the company's first online casino game: Flash (AS3), then a web-based (HTML5 / CreateJS) core reused for other games.
    • Client websites & back-ends — custom sites and data handlers (HTML/CSS/JS, Laravel, MySQL).

  • Nov 2014 — Jan 2015

    Game Developer

    AZ Technical Laboratory Inc.

    Built desktop and mobile game prototypes in Unity.

    • Company game prototypes — unreleased desktop/mobile prototypes (Unity, C#).

  • Feb 2013 — Jun 2014

    Web Developer (Front-end / Back-end)

    Odusee Pty Ltd

    Built a search-engine crawler and client websites / applications.

    • Search engine — crawler scripts powering the company's search (PHP).
    • Client websites & apps — custom client builds (PHP, CodeIgniter, jQuery).

  • Aug 2012 — Oct 2012

    Web Developer (Front-end / Back-end)

    Infocus Multimedia Business Solutions

    Corporate site maintenance and internal tooling.

    • Company website — Drupal corporate site maintenance.
    • Photo-tagging tool — internal tool for tagging client photos (CodeIgniter, MySQL, PHP).

  • Apr 2012 — Jun 2012

    Web Developer (Front-end / Back-end)

    Economic Community Care

    Built a member-management web application for a networking company.

    • Member web app — registration and downline management (CodeIgniter, MySQL, PHP).

Education

  • Graduated 2012

    Bachelor of Science in Information Technology (BSIT)

    University of Cebu

  • Jun 2011 — Mar 2012

    Thesis Project — Android Developer

    University of Cebu

    Mobile application built with Eclipse IDE + Android SDK (Java).

  • Dec 2010 — May 2011

    On-the-Job Training — Web Developer (Front-end / Back-end)

    St. Catherine's College

    Web application (JavaScript/jQuery, HTML/CSS/Bootstrap, PHP, CodeIgniter, MySQL).