What I'm doing now
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Dashlabs.ai
Design Consultant (YC W21)
Making diagnostic lab software for emerging markets pretty and functional. Logo work featured on TechCrunch.
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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)
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UX Society
Co-founder / Founding President
Started the first student UX club in the Philippines at Ateneo de Manila University (2015-2018)
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Stanford ASES
ASES SUMMIT ALUMNI
Immersed in Silicon Valley, toured IDEO & Stanford d.school, pitched a startup to VCs
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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 ++