Electro-Technical Officer · Philippines
I build practical systems at the intersection of engineering, software, and real-world operations — from maritime technical expertise to AI-powered tools, offline systems, and products designed for actual use.
Selected work
Tools I've designed or am actively building. Most are shaped by problems I've seen up close — on the bridge, in the engine room, or in the lives of the people who work around them.
2025
AI-assisted situational awareness for the bridge watch.
Sea.Lookout is a concept for an AI-assisted situational awareness system aimed at the navigational watch. It explores how computer vision and lightweight alerting can back up — never replace — the trained human eye on the bridge, helping identify vessels, floating objects, and navigational hazards under practical shipboard conditions.
2025
Budgeting and wage clarity for Filipino workers.
SweldoWise is a budgeting and personal-finance companion built around the realities of Philippine payroll practice — take-home pay, SSS/PhilHealth/HDMF/tax deductions, overtime and night-differential computations — presented so the numbers make sense to the person actually getting paid.
2025
AI-enabled review for marine engineering licensure.
BoardPilot is a structured study companion for marine engineering licensure candidates. It combines curated question banks, spaced review, and AI-generated explanations grounded in the actual scope of the PRC examinations — not generic test-prep boilerplate.
Local LLM Q&A over technical ship manuals.
An on-board assistant that answers questions against vendor manuals, maker instructions, and planned-maintenance procedures without leaving the vessel's network. Runs a local model over indexed PDFs so engineers can query equipment documentation even with no satellite link.
Background
I work as an Electro-Technical Officer aboard merchant vessels — responsible for the electrical, electronic, and control systems that keep a ship running. Between contracts, and often during them, I design and ship software: focused tools, practical AI, nothing for its own sake.
More about meWhat I work with
A short, honest list. If it isn't here, I probably don't claim it.
I take on a small number of engineering and AI projects each year — mostly practical, often maritime-adjacent. Happy to talk if the problem is concrete.