STATUS: AVAILABLE // REMOTE

Senior Full-Stack Engineer

I'm Bryan Carlson Chan — 15+ years shipping production systems in Rails and Django for US, UK, and Philippine markets. Healthcare SaaS, Stripe billing, QuickBooks integration, monolith decoupling, and enterprise database design.

Quezon City, Philippines • PHT (UTC+8) • Available for APAC, Australia, UK / Central Europe remote roles • No night shifts

What I Do

Enterprise Web Applications

Rails and Django at scale. Service-layer architecture, double-entry accounting, legacy system integration, and maintainable production codebases.

Healthcare & Financial Systems

HMO billing, medical records, Stripe subscriptions, QuickBooks Desktop sync via QODBC, and financial ledger automation.

Architecture & API Design

Monolith-to-JSON-API migration, RESTful API design, PostgreSQL/MySQL schema design, async task queues, and system optimization.

Selected Work

Selah daily-prayer app landing page in a warm illuminated-Psalter visual system

Selah — Daily Prayer PWA

Laravel 12 · PHP 8.2 · Tailwind v4 · MySQL · PWA

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Personal portfolio site homepage

Personal Portfolio Site

Vite 6 · Three.js · GSAP

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SmartResume AI Builder dashboard

SmartResume — AI Resume Builder

FastAPI · Next.js · Multi-provider AI

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DOCUMENT·RAG public chat — a cited document Q&A assistant

DOCUMENT·RAG

React · Supabase (pgvector) · Deno Edge Functions · Gemini

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Career Highlights

IT Consultant & Senior Full-Stack Developer — Cooperative Health Management Federation (CHMF)
June 2026 – September 2026 | Python, Django, PostgreSQL, QuickBooks Desktop integration
Senior Ruby on Rails Developer — ChartRequest
July 2023 – June 2026 | Remote US | Stripe billing, healthcare SaaS, MySQL
Senior Ruby on Rails Developer — LaunchPad Recruits / Harver
July 2013 – July 2023 | Remote UK | Monolith decoupling, Elasticsearch, AI integration
Ruby on Rails / Full-Stack Developer — Philippine Agencies & Independent Projects
2007 – 2013 | Government, e-commerce, marketing platforms

Technical Skills

Languages

Ruby, Python, SQL, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, PHP

Backend

Ruby on Rails, Django, Django REST Framework, FastAPI, Node.js / Express

Frontend

React, Next.js, jQuery, AJAX, HTML5, CSS3, Vite

Databases

PostgreSQL, pgvector, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, SQLite, Supabase (Row Level Security)

AI & LLM

RAG pipelines, embeddings & vector search (pgvector, Qdrant), LangChain / LangGraph / CrewAI, RAGAS evaluation, MCP servers, provider-swappable LLM clients (Gemini, Claude)

Payments & Integrations

Stripe subscriptions & webhooks, QuickBooks Desktop / QODBC, Ko-fi, Gumroad

DevOps & Infrastructure

Git, GitHub Actions CI/CD, Docker, Render, Vercel, Cloudflare Workers, Netlify, Hostinger, Supabase, path-filtered multi-site pipelines

Get in Touch

I'm looking for senior backend or full-stack roles with APAC, Australia, UK, or Central Europe overlap.
No night shifts. Available immediately.