Allanaire
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AllanaireTapion

Inhinyero · Lider · GamerPampanga, Philippines

I build the infrastructure, wire in the AI, and lead the teams that ship it. Fifteen years of production software, and the whole stack behind my own factory.

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The Story

I started in 2011, building for clients the same year I finished Computer Science at Tarlac State. Within three years I went from writing the recruitment module to running the team that built it.

Since then I have worked remote for teams across three continents: live broadcast captioning, a Twilio partner, Australian startups, blockchain payments, a headless CMS, and an AI analytics product, alongside more than 6,000 hours of independent client work rated five stars. I tend to end up as the person who owns the pipeline, the infrastructure, and the hard calls.

Then I built a company of my own. Big Game makes custom sports apparel in Pampanga, and every system that runs it, from orders to the warehouse to the Photoshop floor, is software I wrote and operate.

Side A · Learning to lead

  1. A1
    Independent developer · Client projects

    Client projects worldwide while finishing a BS in Computer Science.

  2. A2
    System developer · Remote staffing company

    Recruitment module, jobseeker portal, and the company's public web presence.

  3. A3
    IT manager · Remote staffing company

    Ran development and IT operations as scrum master. Shipped a Xero-style accounts system and real-time candidate matching over WebSockets.

Side B · Owning the stack

  1. B1
    Senior software engineer · Global outsourcing company

    Lead on client builds: an Ethereum payment gateway, an Australian NFC mobile app on AWS ECS, and tech lead with a dev team on an Australian startup's core product.

  2. B2
    Senior full-stack, team lead · Twilio partner project

    Tech lead and project manager for eight developers; one CRM layer across Zendesk, HubSpot and Salesforce on Twilio Flex, AWS CDK and Lambda.

  3. B3
    Lead frontend developer · Software consultancy

    Vue 3 modernization on .NET Core with Azure AD.

  4. B4
    Senior software engineer · Live captioning company

    An EKS cluster for multi-session live broadcast captioning, a serverless hybrid AI captioning platform, and an LLM topic-model generator built on LangChain.

  5. B5
    Founder & engineer · Big Game

    Custom sports apparel production, run end to end on software I built.

Side C · Independent, 5-star across 6,000+ hours

  1. C1
    Analytics engineer · AI analytics platform

    LangChain pipelines and AI dashboards for trend detection, engagement scoring and recommendations.

  2. C2
    Solutions architect & lead · Client rebuild

    Audited and rebuilt an existing system, then led the delivery.

  3. C3
    Core developer · Headless CMS company

    Content modeling, authoring workflows, integrations, CI/CD and production support.

  4. C4
    Senior full-stack developer · Long-term client

    Built the client's AWS infrastructure plus React and React Native apps. The client called me instrumental to their infrastructure.

  5. C5
    Backend developer · Big data analytics SaaS

    Picked by a team of MIT-background engineers for backend and frontend work on their Django platform.

The Singles

Three things I am hired for, and the work that proves each one.

Allanaire on a glass skydeck above a city harbour
Track 1

DevOps

I like systems that deploy themselves and tell you when they are unhappy. Infrastructure as code, boring releases, and environments you can rebuild from scratch.

  • AWS in production since 2017: EKS, ECS, EC2, Lambda, RDS, S3, ElastiCache, API Gateway, CDK and the Serverless Framework.
  • Kubernetes at broadcast scale: an EKS cluster that bridges live captioning services and carries the maximum number of concurrent broadcast sessions.
  • Infrastructure as code with Terraform, Docker and AWS CDK, including a client's AWS foundation built over two years and Terraform-managed infrastructure for Big Game's newest product.
  • CI/CD owner at a headless CMS company and an AI analytics platform, speeding up how analytics features reach users.
  • Release engineering at Big Game: tag-driven production deploys on Vercel, separate dev and prod environments, and auto-updating desktop apps shipped through GitHub Actions.
  • Multi-tenant platform with a control plane that provisions tenants, with a database per tenant for isolation.
Allanaire standing inside a digital light installation
Track 2

AI Work

I put models where they earn their keep: reading messy inputs, finding signals in data, and doing the repetitive work people should not have to.

  • LLMs for live captioning: a topic-model generator that ingests newsroom data through LangChain to raise caption accuracy, and a hybrid AI captioning platform on AWS Lambda.
  • LangChain analytics pipelines at an AI analytics platform that pull insight from user content, feeding dashboards for trend detection, engagement scoring and recommendations.
  • Vision LLMs in production: Jersey Cockpit reads a team roster and auto-numbers full-sublimation jersey designs in Photoshop, running local Qwen vision models through Ollama.
  • Local image pipelines that upscale and recreate logos with Stable Diffusion, without sending client artwork to the cloud.
  • Agent-driven engineering: I run my own work as plans, parallel AI agents and review gates, the way I would run a team.
Allanaire on a wide beach below a row of wind turbines
Track 3

Leadership

I have led from both seats: managing engineers for someone else, and answering to customers and a production floor as the owner.

  • IT manager for three years at a remote staffing company, over both development and IT operations; scrum master and retrospective facilitator.
  • Led eight developers as tech lead and project manager on a Twilio partner project, across the full delivery cycle.
  • Tech lead on an Australian startup's core product, managing its developer team; solutions architect on client rebuilds.
  • Lead roles on frontend at a software consultancy and on mobile at an NFC startup.
  • Founder at Big Game: the floor team files tickets, I plan, build, review and ship, from feature branch to tagged release.

The Reviews

What clients wrote after the work shipped. Every rated engagement: five stars.

5.0
"Allan has been with the company for more than 2 years and has been instrumental in building our AWS infrastructure and mobile/web apps. Allan would be a great addition to any team looking for a senior full-stack engineer with solid DevOps knowledge and experience. We look forward to working with Allan again in the future."
React / React Native developer, long-term engagement
5.0
"Allan was really great to work with and his responsiveness and communication was excellent. We had Allan originally to analyse a system that was built and he did a fantastic…"
  • Collaborative
  • Clear Communicator
  • Detail Oriented
  • Professional
Solutions architect, lead developer and manager
5.0
"Allan is an incredible Senior Full stack engineer. He was able to manage and plan the project and formulate solutions to difficult problems. I suggest hiring Allan especially if you are at the early stages of a challenging project."
  • Solution Oriented
Ionic, Angular and Cordova developer
5.0
"We are a company of engineers from institutions such as MIT with work experience at the classic silicon valley giants. We found Allan to help with backend and frontend work…"
  • Collaborative
  • Accountable for Outcomes
Python (Django) big data analytics SaaS
5.0

No written review on this one, just the rating and the skills the client endorsed: a Node and TypeScript SaaS build on Next.js and AWS, delivered on a long-term part-time basis.

  • Node.js
  • TypeScript
  • Full-Stack Development
  • SaaS Development
Senior full-stack developer: Node, TypeScript, Next.js, AWS

Bonus Disc: Big Game

Big Game takes custom sports apparel orders from TikTok, Shopee and walk-ins, and produces them in Pampanga.

No vendor platform runs it. These are the systems I designed, wrote and keep in production, from the storefront to the factory floor.

  1. Order production trackingNext.js · Prisma · PostgreSQLEvery order from intake to delivery, with costing and payroll.
  2. Multi-tenant platformDatabase per tenant · control planeThe same app offered to other businesses, provisioned from a control plane.
  3. Online storefrontPayload CMS · PayMongoCatalog, checkout with QR Ph payments, order tracking, TikTok import.
  4. Jersey CockpitPython · Electron · vision LLMAuto-numbers jersey designs from a roster and drives Photoshop directly.
  5. Warehouse phone appFlutter · offline-firstReceive and release fabric rolls by QR, with scale weights.
  6. Biometric agentElectron · LAN discoveryFinds the office attendance device and syncs punches to payroll.

Liner Notes

Cloud & DevOps
AWS (EKS, ECS, EC2, Lambda, RDS, S3, CDK), Serverless Framework, Terraform, Docker, GitHub Actions, Vercel, DigitalOcean, Firebase
AI & Data
LangChain, LLM integration, Ollama, Qwen vision models, Stable Diffusion, Pandas, NumPy
Languages & Frameworks
TypeScript, Node.js, React, React Native, Next.js, Vue, Angular, Ionic, Python, Django, PHP, Laravel, C# / .NET, Flutter, Electron, Solidity
Data Stores
PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, SQLite, Apache Solr, CouchDB
Ways of Working
Scrum, TDD, CI/CD, code review, team leadership and project management, remote-first since 2011
Education
BS Computer Science, Tarlac State University, 2011. Diploma in Computer Science, Asian Institute of Science and Technology, 2007

Off the Clock

Outside the terminal I am a husband, a dad, a beagle's favourite person, and someone who will take the long way to any beach. Windmills up north, white sand down south, and a lot of selfies in between.

Selfie on a sunny beach with wind turbines behind
Windmills up north
Studio portrait of Allanaire and his wife Honhie
With Honhie
Allanaire jumping in front of rounded green hills
Bohol
A happy beagle sitting in front of potted plants
Head of security
Allanaire and Honhie on a white sand beach
Boracay
Allanaire and Honhie in a yellow polka-dot art room
Dots
Selfie in sunglasses over clear turquoise water
Island hopping
Allanaire and Honhie posing in a grand red-carpeted hall
Date night

Player One

Lifelong gamer. Handhelds, JRPGs and tactics games, anything with a turn order. It is probably why I plan a sprint like a battle map: know the board, position the team, then commit.

Let's Build

Hiring for DevOps, AI or a technical lead, or need a system built and run? Let's talk.

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