rg@home:~$ whoami --verbose
richard_gatchalian # Full Stack AI-Integrated Software Engineer
I wire LLM pipelines to real products. Prompt design through deploy to live UI. I own the whole stack and I ship.
rg@home:~$ cat contact.txt
rg@home:~$ ls skills/
TypeScript Postgres Next.js .NET SQL Server AWS CI/CD Python SEO Git Docker C#
rg@home:~$ cat exp/carboncopies.log
Carboncopies Foundation :: Full Stack Developer (Full time)
Feb 2024 - Present / San Francisco, CA
- > Built CarbonGPT, an LLM research assistant for the whole org. Live at chat.carboncopies.org.
- > Designed and deployed LLM RAG pipelines with Python ChromaDB backends across two server nodes.
- > Wrote scientist-friendly install docs for BrainGenix NES, a C++/Python neuroscience emulation platform.
- > Converted 1,500+ nodes from JSON to Neo4j graph format for the roadmap platform at roadmap.carboncopies.org.
- > Ran Google Ads campaigns that pulled $10,000 in org funding.
- > Handled media processing and editing with ffmpeg for Brain Preservation Foundation and Aspirational Neuroscience.
rg@home:~$ cat exp/aoede.log
Aoede LLC :: Software Engineer (Freelance)
Mar 2024 - Aug 2024 / Missouri City, TX
- > Built CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and AWS ECR, containerizing Node.js servers and relational databases.
- > Shipped form fill and PDF blob automation for LLM-based delinquent tenant email sends.
- > Lifted monthly rent roll from $67,000 to $83,000 through better tenant management systems.
- > Live at aoede.dev.
rg@home:~$ git log --oneline vasanas/
Vasanas :: https://vasanas.space/
Jul 2025 - Present
- > AI journaling app. Next.js 16, React 19, TypeScript, Postgres with Drizzle ORM.
- > Multi-provider auth: WorkOS AuthKit, NextAuth.js, Discord OAuth, magic links.
- > Streaming AI responses from Mistral, OpenAI, OpenRouter with real-time token tracking.
- > Semantic search via embeddings and automatic content tagging.
- > Migrated pnpm to Bun, 70.59% faster builds.
rg@home:~$ cat edu.conf
University of Texas at Dallas / Bachelor of Science, Software Engineering