Riel Joseph Bulaybulay

Experience

1. JAN — JUN 2026

   Full-stack Software Engineer · Cashflowy (Remote)

   • Built and maintained React/TypeScript and Django/Python systems for a financial platform covering transactions, invoicing, bank connectivity, and reporting.
   • Improved core query performance by 40-66% through bulk-fetching strategies and removal of expensive UNION queries.
   • Cut Docker builds from 28 minutes to 2.5 minutes, reduced build context by 93% and image size by 29%, and added health-checked GCP deployments with automatic rollback.
   • Integrated Plaid and Stripe, then generated type-safe TypeScript SDKs and React Query hooks from Django REST Framework's OpenAPI schema.

   • React
   • TypeScript
   • Django
   • Python
   • PostgreSQL
   • Docker
   • GCP
   • Plaid
   • Stripe
2. OCT 2025 — APR 2026

   Full-stack Software Engineer · Tailor.video (Remote, Part-time)

   • Built AI-assisted campaign creation, persistent chat history, landing-page and dataset workflows, account and campaign analytics, Zapier integration, and password-protected share portals.
   • Migrated the application from Remix to React Router 7 on Cloudflare Workers and replaced Neon WebSocket access with Hyperdrive pooling. Cloudflare's uncached-workload benchmark indicates an estimated 50-60% reduction in database connection and query latency.
   • Established 4 deployment pipelines across web and worker services for staging and production.
   • Replaced Stack Auth with Better Auth, implementing 4 organization roles, Google and Microsoft OAuth, Stripe billing, audited staff impersonation, and 37 authentication and authorization tests.

   • React
   • TypeScript
   • React Router 7
   • Cloudflare Workers
   • PostgreSQL
   • Prisma
   • ZenStack
   • Better Auth
3. NOV 2024 — JAN 2026

   Full-stack Software Engineer · Soulbound Inc. (Remote)

   • Built frontend and backend systems for a Web3 streaming platform with on-chain tipping, prediction markets, token-gated features, smart contracts, and distributed node infrastructure.
   • Led 3 engineers through dependency upgrades, codebase restructuring, code reviews, and delivery of platform features.
   • Evaluated and prototyped Web3 protocols for product integration, weighing implementation risk against user value.

   • React
   • TypeScript
   • Solidity
   • wagmi
   • viem
   • Privy
4. JUL 2023 — FEB 2024

   Software Engineer · Token Metrics (Remote)

   • Owned an automated crypto asset-allocation product from architecture and frontend through backend and deployment.
   • Migrated a legacy Angular application to Next.js and improved measured application load speed by approximately 3x in before-and-after tests.
   • Built GitHub Actions deployment pipelines and optimized database models and backend queries to reduce transaction cost and retrieval overhead.

   • Next.js
   • TypeScript
   • Angular
   • GitHub Actions
   • Node.js
5. JUN 2021 — JUL 2022

   Full-stack Software Engineer · Otterdev (Remote)

   • Led delivery of 4 client projects from architecture through deployment using React, Next.js, NestJS, Prisma, and AWS.
   • Mentored 3 junior engineers through code reviews and pair-programming sessions.
   • Built KYC platforms and token-issuance contracts using Solidity and ethers.js.

   • React
   • Next.js
   • NestJS
   • Prisma
   • AWS
   • Solidity
   • ethers.js

Skills

Projects

1. 

   Cashflowy

   A financial management platform that helps small businesses track transactions, manage invoicing, connect bank accounts, run financial reports, and stay on top of their books — all in one place.

   • React
   • TypeScript
   • Django
   • Tailwind CSS
   • shadcn
   • Plaid
   • Stripe
   • Celery
   • PostgreSQL
2. 

   Tailor

   AI video platform for real estate teams that turns one recording into personalized videos using lead and property data, then sends them through CRM and campaign workflows.

   • React
   • TypeScript
   • React Router 7
   • Cloudflare Workers
   • PostgreSQL
   • Prisma
   • Better Auth
3. 

   Interseed

   Platform for founders to become fund-ready and talents to build their portfolio with the help of funding and jobs opportunities.

   • Next.js
   • Nest.js
   • Tailwind CSS
   • sanity
4. pi-git-worktrees

   Parallel AI agent sessions using git worktrees for Pi coding agent. Spawn multiple agents working on different tasks simultaneously — each in its own isolated git worktree — and orchestrate them from a single main session with live status widgets, tmux floating popups, and full fan-out/wait/gather orchestration.

   • TypeScript
   • tmux
   • Git Worktrees
   • Pi Coding Agent
   • TUI
5. 

   Soulbound TV

   A live-streaming platform with creator monetization, prediction markets, token-gated interactions, and real-time on-chain tipping.

   • wagmi
   • viem
   • privy
   • Solidity
   • ReactJS
   • shadcn

Writing

1. 2026-04-22

   Building pi-image-preview: Inline Image Previews with Kitty Graphics in tmux

   How I built a Pi coding agent extension that renders inline image thumbnails using the kitty graphics protocol — with full tmux support via Unicode placeholder characters.

   • typescript
   • terminal
   • kitty
   • tmux
   • open-source
   • pi-coding-agent

2. 2026-04-20

   Building pi-git-worktrees: Parallel AI Agent Sessions with Git Worktrees

   How I built a Pi coding agent extension that spawns multiple AI agents in isolated git worktrees, orchestrated from a single tmux session with live status widgets and floating popups.

   • typescript
   • ai-agents
   • tmux
   • git
   • open-source
   • pi-coding-agent

3. 2026-02-12

   How I Let My QA Tester Run Our Full Stack App Without Any Dev Experience

   A bash script that checks prerequisites, installs missing tools, checks out the right branches, and spins up the entire frontend + backend stack — so non-technical QA testers can test locally with one command.

   • bash
   • devops
   • qa
   • dx
   • docker