What I'm doing now
Swarm
CO-FOUNDER AND CHIEF DESIGN OFFICER
I lead design in my own company now! It's a social network built on trust, where tech collaborators ideate, strategize, and form teams around projects.
On Deck
Design fellow
I'm part of the second On Deck Design Fellowship. I was selected and attending with a curated group of 75 designers in the design management track. Gotta learn to be a good manager!
Specter
Founder and Design Coach
People pay me to help them become product designers. Helped 10+ students transition their career to digital product design and user experience. Guidance on fundamental skills and mindset.
Roots
Host and Producer
Ranked Top 2 on Apple Podcasts (Design, Philippines), the Top 200’s on Spotify, and was featured by net magazine (December 2019 issue). 100+ episodes with world-class Filipino designers.
Trailblazing
Host and Producer
Just for fun! A show on my personal interests and conversations with friends. We talk about leadership, design, product, startups, crypto, NFTs, and more.
UX+ Conference
Co-founder
Co-founded the largest UX conference in SE Asia. Started with 1300+ paid attendees (2019). Scaled to 2400+ (2020), and featured world-class designers like Julie Zhuo.
YouTube
CONTENT CREATOR
I post videos about design, startups, and covers of songs I like. It's mostly to help new designers out (it's extremely hard to transition to design, I know!) and release some pent up musical energy :P
Before
Dashlabs.ai
Design Consultant (YC W21)
Making diagnostic lab software for emerging markets pretty and functional. Logo work featured on TechCrunch.
Kalibrr
Senior Product Designer (YC W13)
Led design for enterprise squad and north star projects; represented the product design function in the company (2018-2021)
UX Society
Co-founder / Founding President
Started the first student UX club in the Philippines at Ateneo de Manila University (2015-2018)
Stanford ASES
ASES SUMMIT ALUMNI
Immersed in Silicon Valley, toured IDEO & Stanford d.school, pitched a startup to VCs
Agoda
Product Design Intern
Joined a 40+ strong world-class design team at Bangkok — early-stage vision work for sorts and filters; shipped usability improvements to sidebar widget
Interests
Mentoring
Spending time helping people start their design careers is very important to me. I have a lot of pride for the people I've mentored and how their career turns out :)
DoTA 2
I usually play every night with friends or co-workers. I prefer playing the mid lane with Invoker, Meepo (I'm level 25), or Broodmother. My highest rank was Ancient II, but I'm just Legend 2-4 these days. Check my DotaBuff
Badminton
I play almost every day! I train twice a week, participate in queueing matches with different groups of people, and just generally love the competition.
Photography
I like taking portraits of friends, and interesting landscapes. I also love taking photos during the golden hour.
People
Meeting new people with different skills, hobbies, and interests other than mine, that help expand my perspective.
Music
I started playing guitar when I was around grade 3. I'm a decent singer, newbie percussionist + bass player + and MIDI keyboard player. Check my SoundCloud!
Anime
I like Shounen in general, OP characters in Isekai worlds, good music, and a bit of Seinen! Favorites: Death Note, Code Geass, Black Clover, HxH, Erased, Haikyuu, Dragon Ball Super, Food Wars, Yowamushi Pedal ++