Laurence
Bautista

Selected work

1. Unla La

   Ride-hailing · CTO

   Ride-hailing for cars, motorcycles and tricycles with live driver tracking. I built it from scratch, then became CTO.

   Rails · Node.js · React Native · AWS

   Case study Website App Store Google Play
   20K+ monthly active users

2. Quicklean

   IoT laundry · Nodalsense

   Every washer and dryer has its own chip. The platform monitors each machine live and sets its cycle length.

   IoT · Real-time monitoring
   2,000+ machines in 50+ branches

3. Busbay

   Bus operations · Nodalsense

   Booking, trip operations and cargo management, with payments and IoT.

   Rails · React Native
   Five Star Bus in production

4. AI support assistant

   Customer support · Skin Station

   Replaced Yellow.ai. It answers from company knowledge and passes harder questions to a human agent.

   RAG · Ollama · Qwen
   1,000+ messages a day

5. ByteLift

   School LMS · Nodalsense

   Includes JAIKEN, an AI assistant that helps teachers create modules, exams and evaluations.

   Rails · React Native · RAG

   Case study
   Multiple schools in daily use

6. Techfactors suite

   Education · Team lead

   LMS, online exams, attendance tracking and a parent app.

   React · React Native · .NET
   50,000+ students, 30+ schools

7. Sky Pasada

   Airline booking · Unla La

   Flight booking app and CMS for a regional airline in Northern Luzon.

   Website
   Regional airline live bookings

All projects

GitHub activity

Experience

1. 2025 – now

   Software Developer · Codeblu

   BluOps client portal, invoicing and AI features.

2. 2023 – now Part-time

   Lead Developer · Nodalsense

   Quicklean, Busbay, ByteLift and smart lockers.

3. 2023 – now

   CTO · Unla La

   Unla La and Sky Pasada. Lead developer since 2020.

4. 2022 – now Part-time

   Senior Engineer · Skin Station

   Booking app, POS and AI support.

5. 2022 – 2025 Part-time

   Consultant · Asian Institute of Management

   Student management and grading.

6. 2022 – 2023

   Team Lead · CrewBloom

   CrewHub staffing platform.

7. 2021 – 2023

   Senior Engineer · Techfactors

   Education suite for 30+ schools.

8. 2020 – 2022

   Senior Engineer · Bliimo

   Veterans Bank, Magnolia, Goldilocks, MBC.

9. 2017 – 2020

   Freelance

   Clinic, lending and sales systems.

Stack

AI

RAG, agents, tool calling, vector search, Ollama, Qwen

Backend

Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Laravel, WebSockets

Frontend

React, Next.js, Vue.js, Hotwire, Tailwind

Mobile & IoT

React Native, SwiftUI, Kotlin, hardware integration

Languages

Ruby, TypeScript, Python, PHP, C#, Rust, SQL

Infrastructure

AWS, DigitalOcean, Docker, Nginx, PostgreSQL, Redis

Credentials

• 2019
  Top 1 passer, DICT ICT Proficiency Exam (Programming)
• 2015 – 2019
  B.S. Computer Science, University of Luzon