Michael Ong

Building independent products including Nooksi, a multi-tenant creator-commerce platform with Go, React, CloudFront, and SQS workers; Sycee, a native iOS Chinese almanac; and Ube, a native iOS expense app with on-device receipt OCR.

Rebuilt a recruitment platform around a React/TypeScript dashboard and Go APIs, moving away from server-side rendering and a tightly coupled Haskell backend. Simplified client data flow and service boundaries, and added client telemetry and error monitoring.

Led four engineers across learning products serving 5,000+ monthly active users. Cut reported application crashes by 80% in Edcafe AI and reduced monthly infrastructure cost from $4,000 to $2,500 by moving media delivery to DigitalOcean Spaces.

Led a five-person team prototyping payment APIs, working through checkout-related transaction, webhook, settlement, and idempotency requirements.

Built a SwiftUI travel-subscription iOS MVP from scratch, including state management and integration with existing Rails APIs.

Owned frontend architecture for the React/TypeScript merchant dashboard, including parcel booking, bulk labels, and shipment tracking. Built the frontend for Fleets, a dispatch product launched across four Philippine provinces.

Built startup web and mobile products, including React Native location matching for Bridge, native iOS work for Promly, and experimental blockchain work on ronin.art.

Developed features for SeriousMD and NowServing across ASP.NET/Entity Framework/SQL Server, web, and native iPad apps. Built clinical workflows for patient records, prescriptions, and consultations; returned in 2020 to help extend telemedicine features.

Built native iOS interfaces for UnionBank Online, including Credit Card Rewards and PlayEveryday features.

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with a focus on Software Technology from De La Salle University, completed in 2015.