Dominic Lasap · Full-Stack Software Engineer · Cebu City, Philippines
Full-stack engineer who ships whole products
5+ years building React and Next.js on Node and PostgreSQL for UK, US, and Philippine teams — and one consumer product I designed, built, and launched alone.
- Years shipping
- 5+
- Countries served
- 3
- Product, solo-built
- 1
Selected work
Projects that shipped, and what I decided building them.
Experience
Where I've been building.
Founder & Full-Stack Engineer · PaddleBag
Aug 2026 — Present — Cebu City, Philippines (Remote)
Solo-designed, built, and launched a production pickleball community platform, owning every layer: product, UX, schema, API, frontend, SEO, analytics, and monetization.
- Ship and maintain a Next.js 16 / React 19 / TypeScript app on Supabase and PostgreSQL with versioned SQL migrations and continuous deployment.
- Shut down a runaway infrastructure cost spike by tracing a request flood to a single network ASN and deploying targeted firewall rate limits.
- Designed a cost-bounded data architecture that keeps origin compute flat as traffic grows.
- Built the growth and retention stack end to end, including a cohort retention analysis that redirected the product roadmap.
Software Engineer · Childcare Marketing (UK)
Jun 2025 — Present — Remote (United Kingdom)
Full-stack development on a client-facing CRM and operations platform.
- Built core CRM features with data-fetching performance tuning and paginated directories for large data sets.
- Developed an Operations Report module covering workload tracking, approval workflows, and unresponded-message detection.
- Hardened the GoHighLevel CRM integration: OAuth token refresh, pagination, and error handling.
- Implemented pg-boss background workers and Sentry monitoring; audited RLS policies via Supabase's splinter linter.
Software Engineer · FullScale
Jun 2022 — Present — IT Park, Cebu City, Philippines
Feature delivery for US-based clients across several long-running projects.
- AI Shorts video app — Figma-to-production UI, video effects and transitions, Next.js API routes, PR review.
- Document web editor — document customization, Microsoft SSO, ReCaptcha, across Next.js and Ruby on Rails.
- Multifamily loan platform — moved from bug fixes to owning features built from mockups and JIRA criteria.
- Travel itinerary showcase — frontend and backend delivery under a tight timeline.
Software Engineer · DNA Micro
May 2021 — Jun 2022 — Gorordo Ave., Cebu City, Philippines
Completed an intensive full-stack training program, then moved from the frontend team to the database team on the strength of data-handling work.
- Built TypeScript and React components; diagnosed data inconsistencies caused by conflicting types in asynchronous flows.
- Promoted to the database team — built a cross-instance migration script, a replication resync service with inconsistency alerting, and a SendGrid notification service.
- Managed dockerized images across RethinkDB, PostgreSQL, MeiliSearch, Redis, Elasticsearch, and Cassandra.
- Recognized for outstanding work and delivery of exceptional results (May 2022).
Part-Time Software Engineer · Reliability Management (UK)
Apr 2023 — Present — Remote (United Kingdom)
Sole developer for a Reliability Centered Maintenance engineering business.
- Built an AI web application post-processing engineer inputs through custom prompts into structured tables and PDF exports.
- Expanded into no-code delivery with Google AppSheet and Apps Script, including Android deployment via the Play Console.
Part-Time Web Developer · Filinvest
Dec 2023 — Mar 2024 — Remote (Philippines)
Upgraded a real estate website to Next.js with Tailwind CSS.
- Resolved responsiveness issues across breakpoints and added missing features.
- Fixed search query and pagination behavior.
Part-Time Full-Stack Developer · 1ClickDesign
Apr 2023 — Nov 2023 — Remote (Philippines)
Sole all-around developer on a real estate CRM, meeting daily with the owner and team.
- Built product, customer, user, and property management with dashboards and data tables.
- Implemented Google Auth and managed the Firebase data layer.
Toolbox
The stack behind the work.
Languages
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- SQL
- HTML5
- CSS3
- SCSS
- Java
- Ruby
Frontend
- React 19
- Next.js 16
- Vue.js
- Tailwind CSS v4
- ShadCN UI
- Mantine UI
- Material UI
- TanStack Query
- Redux
- Zod
- Remotion
- Mapbox GL
Backend & Data
- Node.js
- Express.js
- tRPC
- PostgreSQL
- Supabase
- Drizzle ORM
- MongoDB
- Firebase
- RethinkDB
- Redis
- Elasticsearch
- MeiliSearch
- Cassandra
- pg-boss
- SendGrid
- Ruby on Rails
Cloud & DevOps
- Vercel
- Docker
- Git
- Sentry
- AWS S3
- Google Cloud
Testing & QA
- Vitest
- Jest
- Playwright
- Postman
- ESLint
AI & Automation
- OpenAI API
- Prompt engineering
- Google AppSheet
- Google Apps Script
Contact
Need someone who ships? Let's talk.
lasapdominic@gmail.com · replies within a day or two · Cebu City, Philippines





