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Ex Libris

Mark Vergel Banguis

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The Codex of

Mark Vergel
Banguis

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Software Engineer

Surigao City, Philippines

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Table of Contents

  • I.Prologue3
  • II.Grimoire of Powers4
  • III.Chronicle of Service5
  • IV.Featured Works6
  • V.Correspondence8
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I. Prologue

You don't need a dev team yet. You need the right first developer. With 5 years of experience as a fullstack developer, I can be your solo builder for the MVP, your maintainer once it's live, and your lead when you're ready to grow the team.

— written from Surigao City, Philippines

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II. Grimoire of Powers

Runtimes & Frameworks

Node · Bun · Go · NestJS · Hono · Next.js · TanStack Start

Data & Auth

Postgres · MongoDB · Redis · Drizzle · GraphQL · Better Auth

Infrastructure

Docker · Kubernetes · Dokploy · GCP · DigitalOcean · Cloudflare · GitHub Actions

Jobs, Queues & Tools

BullMQ · Kafka · Mantine · Payload · Claude AI

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III. Chronicle of Service

Chromelot — Lead Fullstack Developer

Apr 2023 – Present · Remote (Texas, USA)

Led end-to-end development across frontend, backend and deployment; guided a remote team of 7.

Fiddle.io — Fullstack Developer

Nov 2021 – Dec 2022 · Remote (Utah, USA)

Synced transactions across services with Kafka; maintained GraphQL APIs for inventory tracking.

Xendit — Frontend Developer

Apr 2021 – Dec 2021 · Remote (Philippines) · YC-backed

Converted Figma designs to reusable React components; supported EN/TL localization.

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IV. Featured Works

Votern

Track voters and beneficiaries, coordinate staff and volunteers, watch spending, and get clear reports — built around how Philippine campaigns actually run on the ground.

TanStack Start · Better Auth · Postgres · BullMQ · Dokploy

Washlook

Complete point-of-sale, order tracking, inventory management, thermal receipt printing and analytics — manage multiple branches from a single platform.

TanStack Start · Redis · Postgres · Cloudflare

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IV. Featured Works (continued)

Turbo Gear

An automotive service system built end-to-end, with a NestJS backend organized into 62 feature modules. MongoDB aggregation pipelines for data handling, BullMQ for background jobs, deployed via Dokploy.

NestJS · MongoDB · BullMQ · Docker · Dokploy

…and further tales within the full archive.

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V. Correspondence

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"Bring me the vision — I shall bring the code, the deploys, and the 3 a.m. bugfixes."

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Colophon

This codex was hand-bound in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript by its own subject.

Surigao City, Philippines · MMXXVI

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