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Nap Joseph Calub

Senior Platform Engineer · Philippines

Yes, I talk to AI all day. It still asks permission.

Ten years of turning distributed chaos into boring, well-tested infrastructure: the pipeline that carried every Penbrothers app to production, student systems at Oracle, NOC dashboards for Google as a vendor. Go, TypeScript, Python. After hours I build for actual humans - an agent-run OS I work from, live translation for my church, small tools finished properly. This site is the evidence.

Open to senior platform engineering roles and consulting engagements.

Current signals

baked Oct 24, 2026

Last deploy
today
github actions
CI status
passing
github actions
Commits
80
git
Writing published
15 posts
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Case studies
6
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Last essay
today
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Data layer
1075 lines
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Site age
13d ago
github

Static site - no servers. These values bake into the HTML at build time; every push to main rebuilds and redeploys them.

A year of shipping

The 2021 how-to

895 contributions in the last year, peaking at 70 on Oct 11, 2026 - the day this site was rebuilt. Baked from the GitHub calendar at build time; the skyline is the same idea I wrote about in 2021, now running on my own site.

Fluid Typography

realtime in-memory layout
The Walker· the words are not against you

The city was built of words, and I walked between them. Wherever I went, they stepped aside. For years I called it avoidance. Every room kept a shape of me that did not fit, so I made myself smaller and kept walking. The years taught me to walk apologetically, shoulders folded like an unread letter. I learned the edges of every corridor. I spoke at hallway volume, and moved like someone always arriving, never home. Some nights the parting looked like a door closing, so I stopped expecting anyone to turn around. Then one evening, in the middle of the crowd, I stopped. I braced for the gap to widen, for the words to run. They did not run. The words came back, close enough to read. Close enough to feel the ink still drying. They had never been turning away. They had been making room. The space was never empty. It was kept. So that is what the parting was: not a wall retreating, but a crowd leaning in. The corridor I feared was a held breath. The silence was not absence; it was a chair pulled out. I stand taller now, and the words walk with me. If you are walking between words tonight, stop once. See who was waiting. Rest here, Walker. Then walk on. You were never avoided. You were being awaited.

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Drag the Walker anywhere. Stop, and the words come close.

What I bring

Production platform work

The pipelines, dashboards, and internal tooling other engineers shipped on - at Penbrothers, Google (as a vendor), and Oracle.

Self-directed systems

Systems I found a reason to build: agent infrastructure I run my own day on, and a complete live-translation stack for my church.

Craft and open source

Small tools finished properly - tested, documented, and shipped - plus civic-tech work in the open.

All projects

  • helper

    2026

    An agent-authored operating system for my own executive function: 17 skills, confirm-first write gates, and an append-only audit trail, grounded in real Jira, git, and calendar data.

    Markdown vault / Agent skills / Jira / Confluence / Git

  • Live-translation stack for Favor Church

    2026

    Captions intercepted from spf.io, LLM-translated into conversational Taglish with context buffering, persisted for review, and served to a live Material 3 caption viewer - deployed on Deno Deploy.

    Deno / TypeScript / Qwen2.5-72B / Supabase / Deno Deploy

  • Open Congress API

    2025

    A REST API serving Philippine Congress data from a Neo4j graph - legislators, bills, committees - with schema validation and automatic OpenAPI documentation. Built for the BetterGov.ph civic-tech initiative.

    Deno / Hono / Neo4j / Zod / OpenAPI

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Contact

Hiring for a platform team, or need one built? hello@napjose.ph

I answer every serious email - role conversations and consulting engagements alike.