Available for freelance & full-time roles
Hi, I’m Louie Jay — a full-stack developer in Cebu, Philippines, currently building NativeCamp at Forty Degrees Celsius. I take ideas from first sketch to a live product: interface, backend, database, deployment and app-store build.
01 Selected work
Every project here was designed, built and deployed by me — from the database schema to the last animation.
A cozy Filipino island-life game about farming, fishing, cooking and community — built to respect the player’s time.
Daily-menu ordering for a working restaurant: customers order before the cutoff, the kitchen sees exactly what to cook, everything goes out in one delivery.
A group chat where friends start a “jam” and hear the same song at the same second — on the web or on their phones.
A first-person ocean survival game in the browser: hook debris, craft tools, grow your raft — then swim for a coast full of dinosaurs.
02 What I bring
I’m comfortable at every layer, so nothing gets lost between design, frontend, backend and release.
Responsive, accessible interfaces that feel native on phones and desktops — one codebase where it makes sense.
2D and 3D games with real systems behind them — economies, seasons, AI, saves — and the feel to make them fun.
Data models that hold up, safe concurrent writes, live updates over WebSockets and APIs that scale on the edge.
Automated tests, migrations, CI-friendly deploy scripts and store-ready Android builds — not just a demo on my laptop.
03 Problem solving
A few of the tricky bits behind the projects above — and how I solved them.
Jammr
The server never streams audio or a playhead. It stores “position P at server time T”; each client estimates its clock offset with NTP-style pings and corrects any drift over 1.5 s. New songs start 1.5 s in the future so every device can buffer and begin together.
Result: tight sync across browsers and phones with almost no server load.
KusinaLink
Stock is deducted at the moment an order is placed, inside a single atomic Postgres function — so two customers racing for the last serving can’t both win. Cancellations return stock, and orders snapshot the name and price they were bought at.
Result: the kitchen’s numbers always match reality.
Isla Lola
All game rules live in a pure, renderer-free state module covered by Vitest suites. Saves are versioned and migrated forward (v1 → v6), so every new season, crop and feature arrived without wiping anyone’s progress.
Result: new seasons ship without resetting anyone’s progress.
Jammr
YouTube allows ~100 searches a day. I built a matching pipeline that tries free sources first — MusicBrainz by ISRC, then the artist’s official channels — and only searches as a last resort, caching every match and pre-matching chart songs on a cron.
Result: most songs never touch the search quota.
KusinaLink
The hosting alias sometimes kept serving the previous build after a production deploy. My deploy script stamps each build with a unique ID, polls the live site for it and re-promotes until the new version is actually being served.
Result: one command, and production is verified fresh.
Isla Lola
A small i18n layer with English keys ships the UI in English, Filipino, Cebuano, Ilocano and Hiligaynon — with a glossary that deliberately keeps the characters’ Taglish dialogue intact, because that’s how they really talk.
Result: a game that feels local, not translated.
04 How I work
We agree on who it’s for, what success looks like and what’s out of scope — written down, so nothing gets lost.
Flows and screens first, then the data model. Decisions you can see and react to before they’re expensive to change.
Working features every few days on a live preview link, so you can click through progress instead of reading reports.
Production deploy, docs and a handover — then iteration based on how real people actually use it.
05 About me
I’m Louie Jay, a web developer at Forty Degrees Celsius, Inc. in Cebu, where I work on NativeCamp. Outside work I build my own games and apps — useful, warm and genuinely local, like a lunch-ordering app for a neighbourhood kitchen or a cozy game about island life with Lola.
I love the whole journey: shaping a fuzzy idea, choosing the right tools, sweating the small interactions and getting it into people’s hands. I write things down, explain trade-offs plainly and finish what I start.
Cebu IT Park · the engineering team behind NativeCamp, one of Japan’s largest online English conversation schools
I build and maintain the web front end that learners use every day — modernising legacy pages onto a newer stack and keeping them pixel-matched with production on desktop and mobile.
Philippine team of BlendIT, an Estonian software company (Tallinn · Bohol · Cebu) delivering web, mobile and UX projects for clients with human-led, AI-assisted development
Tested client web apps end to end — checking new features, finding bugs and verifying UI/UX against specs — and documented issues for the developers. Explored the stacks BlendIT delivers in, and built my main project on a headless Laravel + Vue.js architecture:
Drive — a Google Drive–style cloud storage app
Nested folders, drag-in file and whole-folder uploads with progress, search, favourites, trash with restore, sharing with other users by email, and one-click zip downloads of any selection.
Cebu City, Philippines
06 Contact
Tell me a little about it and I’ll get back to you with next steps.
Mobile & web game · 2026
A cozy Filipino island-life game about farming, fishing, cooking and community.
Most farming games are set somewhere else. I wanted one that feels like home: a kubo by the sea, Lola’s recipes, typhoon season, Undas and the barangay fiesta — and a business model with no gems, no timers and no fear-of-missing-out mechanics.
Ordering platform · 2026 · Restaurant client
Daily-menu ordering for a single restaurant — in daily use by Tasty Sacy.
A home-style kitchen delivers lunch to one office every day. Orders came in through chat messages, so the cook guessed quantities, dishes sold out mid-order and someone had to match every packed meal to a name by hand.
Realtime web & mobile app · 2026
A group chat where friends listen to the same music at the same moment.
Listening together over a call means someone shares their screen and everyone else hears it compressed. Jammr puts a proper player inside a group chat: anyone starts a jam, and everybody’s own player stays locked to the room’s clock.
3D browser game · 2026 · Prototype
Ocean raft survival in the browser — with dinosaurs on the horizon.
Prove that a convincing survival game — water you want to dive into, a raft you build piece by piece, a world that feels alive — can run instantly in a browser tab with no install.
