DREAMER — BUILDER — ENGINEER

IAN
VERGARA

Software Engineer

I build full-stack products, mobile experiences, automations, and ideas that deserve to exist.

CHAPTER 01 — A LIFE FULLY LIVED

I'm a dreamer who

“I have always been a dreamer. I like learning, building, and living a life that is fully lived.”

I turn ideas into working products by learning quickly, moving with intention, and executing before overthinking gets in the way.

ExcellentCalculatingCalm

Fails fast, learns fast. Figures things out independently and uses rapid iteration to reach better outcomes sooner.

Ian Vergara, portrait
THE DREAMER

certified cat nerd

also me
(poke him)

Ian's sticker mascot
Ian surrounded by certificates and medals
RECEIPTS, LITERALLY

CHAPTER 02 — BUILT TO BE USED

Featured work

Experiments made purely for the eyes, then products shipped for real users — commuters, founders, bakers, and job seekers. Keep scrolling to leaf through them.

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Singularity

A visual experiment, made for the eyes

An interactive visual experiment — a singularity you can play with, running live in the browser. No product, no users, no metrics: just motion, light, and curiosity. Try it right here on the page.

Creative codingWeb visuals
Open full screen GitHub
Singularity — interactive visual experiment

THIS ONE'S INTERACTIVE

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Cube Gallery

A Six-Faced gallery you scroll through

An interactive cube gallery experiment — pieces of my world mapped onto a six-faced cube. The second of two visual side projects made purely for the eyes, live in the browser.

Creative codingWeb visuals
Open full screen GitHub
Vergara Cube Gallery — interactive cube gallery experiment

THIS ONE'S INTERACTIVE

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Dash2Career

Your career journey starts here

A careers platform for job seekers — job matching, skill development, mentorship, and progress tracking — built and shipped with the CloudSensei team, live at dash2career.ph.

Cloud & DevOpsAutomation
Visit dash2career.ph

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RushPH

Smarter commutes for Metro Manila

A smart commute planning platform for Metro Manila — live train and bus arrival estimates, crowd-level insights, interactive transit maps, and community-powered delay reporting. Recognized and partnered by the Philippine Department of Transportation (DOTr).

Recognized & partnered by DOTr

Full-stack webREST APIs
  • API response times cut by 40%
  • Scaled to 1,000+ live users
Visit rush-ph.com

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Luvlots

The star-studded shop

A curated platform for star-studded shopping of celebrity and influencer items — live auctions, celebrity drops, and charity partners in one marketplace.

TypeScriptPostgreSQL
  • User workflow efficiency up 30%
  • Built to scale for 1,000+ users
GitHub
Luvlots app — onboarding and home screens
Luvlots app — seller center, charity auctions, checkout

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Flourcast

Bake good decisions

An AI-powered demand forecasting solution for bakeries and food businesses — it predicts sales trends, optimizes inventory, and reduces ingredient waste using historical sales data.

TypeScriptPredictive models
  • Forecast accuracy improved 30%
Case deck GitHub
Flourcast app — inventory management screens
Flourcast app — onboarding and login

More builds

BudgetWise — Every Peso Has a Purpose

BudgetWise

Zero-based budgeting with ML-powered predictive nudges that catch problems before they happen — live on the web.

Project Sandbox

Sandbox

Virtual banking and financial literacy for kids, built with a team for BPI Datawave — engagement up 40% in user testing.

Cravinz app features

Cravinz

A food discovery platform with AI-driven recommendations and a Tinder-style swipe interface. Co-Founder and CTO.

CHAPTER 03 — HOW I WORK

From Ideas
to Impact.

I fail fast, learn fast, and build toward what works.

SCROLL FOR THE JOURNEY ↓

Observe

Understand the real problem before decorating the solution.

Sit with the problem. Watch how people actually move through it — the friction always shows itself first.

FIELD NOTE

“What is the commuter actually waiting for?”

— every project starts as a question

Build

Turn the strongest idea into something real quickly.

Smallest useful version, shipped. Momentum beats polish while the idea is still proving itself.

const mvp = await ship({
  idea: strongest(ideas),
  scope: "smallest useful",
});

Test

Find what breaks, what works, and what matters.

Put it in real hands early. Every break is a note, and every note is direction.

RUN #14

✓ what works   ✗ what breaks

→ what matters

Iterate

Refine with clarity until the product earns its place.

Cut, sharpen, repeat — version by version until nothing is there by accident.

CHANGELOG

v0.1 → v0.4 → v1.0

refine until it earns its place

Then I ship it — and start listening again.

INSTRUMENTS

The stack I build with

Languages
PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptSQLJavaC++PHPHTML/CSSPythonJavaScriptTypeScriptSQLJavaC++PHPHTML/CSS
Frontend
ReactNext.jsReact NativeExpoFlutterTailwind CSSReactNext.jsReact NativeExpoFlutterTailwind CSS
Backend & Cloud
Node.jsAWSSupabaseFirebaseVercelREST APIsDockerNode.jsAWSSupabaseFirebaseVercelREST APIsDocker
AI & Vibe Coding
Claude CodeCursorGitHub Copilotv0MCPPrompt EngineeringTensorFlowClaude CodeCursorGitHub Copilotv0MCPPrompt EngineeringTensorFlow
Data Visualization
TableauPower BITableauPower BI
Tools & Design
GitGitHubFigmaCanvaGitGitHubFigmaCanva

CHAPTER 04 — BUILT IN MANY ROOMS

Different rooms. Same drive to build.

Products, startups, communities, and cloud teams — each room taught a different way of building. The full map is in the resume.

ROOM 01June 2026 Philippines

Cloud Engineering Intern

eCloudValley × Elevate Innovation Solutions

Cloud engineering in an AWS partner environment — the room where cloud stopped being a diagram and became a discipline.

Ian with the eCloudValley cloud engineers training cohort
ROOM 022024 — Present Singapore

Country Director · Founder-in-Residence

Wavesparks

Promoting youth entrepreneurship via the Young Founders Summit program; mentored by notable entrepreneurs (ex-500 Global) and startup incubators.

Ian as Country Director at Wavesparks
ROOM 032023 — 2024 Philippines

President

Computer Science Student Organization

Led the college's Computer Science Student Council and managed student-led events.

Ian as CS Student Organization President
ROOM 04April 2026 Philippines

DevOps Intern

Cloudsensei

Pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and automation — learning how software actually reaches production, reliably and repeatably.

ROOM 05Freelance Australia · Remote

Solutions Engineer

Kahoonah

Scoping real client problems and shipping the systems that solve them — from first call to working software.

Signals along the way

Ian speaking at Young Founders Summit

2024

Young Founders Summit Global Alumni

Handpicked from thousands of applicants across Asia as one of only 80 young founders under 20 — flown to Singapore for an intensive 1 week bootcamp and a 6-month incubator of pitching, building, and mentorship from ex-500 Global operators and seasoned startup founders.

Ian at StellarPH 100 Under 30

2025

StellarPH 100 Under 30

Named one of the Philippines' 100 brightest minds under 30 for 2025 — a nationwide recognition for the young builders, founders, and innovators shaping the country's next decade.

Field notes, published

Tech articles written during my Tutorials Dojo internship — 2,000+ engagements and counting.

CHAPTER 04 — ROOMS

On to the next room.

CHAPTER 05 — SERVICES

CHAPTER 05 — WHAT I CAN BUILD WITH YOU

Have an idea worth building?

I work best with people who want to move from idea to something real.

Full-stack web apps

Frontend, backend, APIs, and database — one person, the whole system.

For teams and founders who need a product built end-to-end.

Mobile apps

Product-quality mobile experiences, from onboarding flow to store-ready build.

For ideas that belong in people's pockets.

MVPs for startups

The strongest version of your idea, built quickly enough to test it for real.

For founders who want signal before they scale.

Automations

Workflows, pipelines, and AI-assisted systems that remove repeat work.

For teams losing hours to things a machine should do.

Landing pages

Fast, sharp pages that say the right thing and load before you blink.

For launches, products, and campaigns that need a front door.

The stars are glowing wherever I am, I want to reach the moon.

EVERY PROJECT IS ANOTHER WAY FORWARD

FINAL CHAPTER — LET'S BUILD THE NEXT ONE

Let's build something worth looking up for.

Have a product, idea, or problem you want to turn into something real? I'd love to hear about it.