I build apps, backends and the platform under them.

1 of 62011–13, Philippines

Steel before software

I started as a structural engineer at Chiyoda, working on oil and gas plants. I kept writing code to speed up the calculations, until writing the code became the job.

• 20+in-house tools built for structural design and reports
• Earthquake Resistant Award at IDEERS in Taiwan, as team leader. Our model survived every test.

2 of 62014, Manila

The switch to iOS

At a disaster risk reduction hackathon backed by Google and the US Department of State, I built an iOS app that lets an engineer assess a building's structural integrity on site. Local governments in the Philippines later got a version of their own.

• 2ndplace, TechCamp Hackathon 2014
• Then Insynchq, building Rolls: a photo app on top of Google Drive.

Philstar article TV interview on ANC

3 of 62015–16, Dubai

Dubai

Two agencies and a run of client apps across the Gulf, from banking to cars to home cleaning.

• Emirates NBD, the number one banking app in the UAE
• Mercedes-Benz for Emirates Motor Company: service booking and tracking
• Matic, on-demand home cleaning in Dubai
• Employee apps for HRDF and Olayan Group in Saudi Arabia

Emirates NBD Matic

4 of 62016–18, remote

RideAustin

A non-profit rideshare built for Austin, Texas. I led the mobile team at Crossover, from iOS Software Architect to Mobile Chief Software Architect. Same years: BiznessApps, an app-building platform later acquired by BuildFire.

• 1.7Mrides in the first year
• $200,000raised for local charities

Open source on GitHub App Store

5 of 62018–now, Oslo

Norway's largest bank

I joined the team that built DNB Mobilbank from the ground up, then moved server-side. There was no platform team, so I did that work too.

• 80+developers use the Claude code review setup I built
• Moved the Mac build servers from a physical data room to AWS
• Took CI/CD from Jenkins to GitLab to GitHub Actions
• Now Staff Engineer, architecting the new mortgage solution for mobile and web

Shifter on the AWS move DNB Mobilbank

6 of 6Now, Oslo

Need a builder in Norway?

I take a product from first commit to the App Store, and build the backend, pipeline and cloud under it.

• Swift
• Kotlin
• Go
• Python
• AWS CDK
• Lambda
• GitHub Actions
• Fastlane
• Claude Code

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