A product designer, design leader, and community builder.

Work experience

10+ years of experience in digital design

Non-profit community work

I'm a social media manager and web/UX designer at Metro Kendo Club, where my goal is to have more people discover kendo through our digital presence. Together with a team of volunteer kendoka, I lead content creation, communications, and web design at Metroken.

Tech community work

From the early years of my career up to now, I try to give back to the design and tech community, who I owe my foundations to. With this mission, I founded/co-founded tech communities, collaborated with others, and spoke in meetups, conferences, and podcasts.

Affiliations

I founded/co-founded various communities that help nurture the tech scene

Tambayan404 - the biggest Discord community for Filipinos in Tech and general tech enthusiasts to have fun, unwind, and not take life seriously. Co-founded together with Chi Señires and Richard Parayno, we created a community of people in tech PH that's a bit lax and where we can have a safe space to talk about various stuff like gaming, memes, personal wins, TILs, and more!

Past affiliations

ManilaCSS - I founded ManilaCSS: aiming to promote CSS best practices, discover what's new, and gather professional and amateur developers to talk about anything under the CSS umbrella

Dribbble PH: Manila - a Dribbble design community that aims to start conversations and make friends in the creative community through meetups and activities.

Alchemists PH: An Elixir and Erlang Community - Founded by my friend and colleague Ria Cataquian, Alchemists PH focuses on promoting Elixir and Erlang in Manila.

Public speaking

Knowledge-sharing to the tech community

Part of how I contribute to the design and tech community besides organizing meetups, is to share my knowledge to other meetups and conferences.

Normally I would talk about interaction design, design systems, product design, CSS, SVG Animation, and some occasional career talks as well.

Where I spoke

• Google's Pride Conversations: Celebrating LGBTQ+ and allies in tech. Watch it on Youtube

  Organized by Google Philippines

• Roots Podcast - A Podcast on Filipino Designers. Listen to it on Spotify.

  Organized by Roots Podcast by Alexis Collado

• SVG Animations - Junior Form Function and Class Conference 2019 @ De La Salle University

  Organized by Philippine Web Designers Organization

• Panel - World IxD Day Manila 2018 @ Kalibrr HQ

  Organized by Kalibrr

• CSS Variables - ManilaCSS Meetup 04 2018 @ Proudcloud HQ

  Organized by ManilaCSS

• Setting up Design Systems - SOFTCON.ph 2017 @ SMX Convention Center

  Organized by The Philippines Software Industry Association

• Panel - UXPH Conference 2017 @ Globe Tower

  Organized by User Experience Philippines

• CSS 101 @ University of Santo Tomas

  Organized by SITE UST

• Low fidelity Prototyping - UX University: Sixth Class @ Ateneo de Manila University

  Organized by UX Society Ateneo de Manila University

• Building Design Systems - MiniFFC s2016e01 @ Bitspace

  Organized by Philippine Web Designers Organization

• STI Career Talk @ STI Caloocan

  Organized by STI Caloocan

Beyond the workdesk

Outside of design, I'm usually diving into things that keep life exciting. I practice Kendo, which helps me stay focused (and lets me hit things with a stick in a very respectful way). I love the freedom of motorcycling, get nerdy over video games, and I'm currently trying to learn Japanese. When I want to slow down, I pick up my iPad and do a bit of illustration just for fun.