
I build systems where correctness matters.
John Anthony Pecson · Bacolod City, Philippines

Products built from zero to scale.

PickleTimeA booking, community, tournament, and venue-operations platform for pickleball, built as a two-sided marketplace plus venue SaaS.Next.jsNode.jsNestJSPostgreSQLRedisAWS
A decade of building & leading.
Sep 2026 to PresentFull-Stack Engineer (Contract)Lockeroom Gym · Australia
Part-time contract engineer on a Sydney personal-training gym's internal coaching platform and its companion member app, covering payments, performance, access control, release process and mobile.
- Migrated recurring payments from Adyen to Stripe across renewals, new member sales and instalment plans
- Built the payment workflow engine in n8n, with Xero accounting codes and GST handling
- Investigated and reduced coach dashboard load time on the member roster, profiling the slow queries behind it
- Audited production schema drift and restored silently broken features with no data loss
- Enforced member-app publishing permissions in Postgres with row-level security
- Shipped Android Health Connect through consent, privacy disclosure and Google Play review
- Added pull-request CI, concurrency and capacity testing on the booking system, and a release QA process
Feb 2025 to Mar 2026Lead Full-Stack Developer & Product EngineerEmpire Crypto Trading · Australia
Led the technical evolution of a global crypto education platform, with a focus on high-concurrency architecture and real-time community engagement.
- Rebuilt the global crypto platform on Next.js and NestJS for long-term modular scalability
- Developed real-time notification and social features powering premium memberships
- Integrated Stripe subscriptions and Ably messaging into a high-availability cloud stack
- Architected and deployed new revenue-generating features with product leadership
Sep 2024 to Jan 2025Full Stack DeveloperWorkbeaver · United Kingdom
Engineered the identity and authentication layer for enterprise-grade workflow-automation tools.
- Built secure authentication services for enterprise automation with Node.js and Docker
- Designed DynamoDB-backed identity management for high-concurrency workflows
- Implemented real-time operational monitoring with AWS CloudWatch
Jul 2023 to May 2024Co-Founder & CTOSafe Technology Ventures · Singapore
Led engineering for a fintech startup, building a secure dispute-resolution engine for online transactions.
- Architected a secure fintech dispute-resolution engine from concept to MVP
- Built complex transaction workflows with Next.js, Node.js, and PostgreSQL
- Defined the technical roadmap and core engineering decisions for the startup
Dec 2020 to Dec 2021CTO / Blockchain ConsultantTradeshare LLC · United States
Architected backend services and integrated blockchain protocols for an international trading ecosystem.
- Designed backend services for a trading platform on Node.js and PostgreSQL, including real-time trading analytics and financial-data processing
- Integrated external financial-data APIs and blockchain functionality into the platform's application workflows
- Owned technical architecture as CTO, translating product and business requirements into the backend and integration design
Apr 2019 to Dec 2020Blockchain Full Stack DeveloperProximaX · Singapore
Built decentralized applications and backend services for enterprise blockchain solutions.
- Developed decentralized applications and backend services around the ProximaX blockchain ecosystem
- Built application flows covering blockchain authentication, transactions, and integration between conventional services and decentralized infrastructure
- Contributed scalable backend and microservice functionality supporting enterprise blockchain applications
Dec 2018 to Apr 2019Blockchain Full Stack DeveloperNEM Foundation · Australia
Developed blockchain applications, SDK integrations, and developer tooling.
- Developed applications and integrations around the NEM blockchain ecosystem, including SDK and API integrations
- Built developer tooling that made blockchain functionality easier to integrate into conventional applications
- Worked through the security and performance considerations of blockchain-connected application workflows
Nov 2017 to Aug 2018Full Stack DeveloperHybrain Development Corporation · Philippines
Developed healthcare and enterprise software across frontend, backend, and cloud infrastructure.
- Developed healthcare and enterprise software across frontend and backend systems
- Built and integrated custom APIs, and worked on database-backed application workflows
- Improved database and application performance for business and healthcare systems
Jun 2014 to Jul 2016Web & Mobile Application DeveloperConnxt LLC · United States
Developed mobile and web applications for international clients.
- Developed web and mobile applications for international clients, across frontend and backend
- Worked on cloud-connected and IoT-style applications involving real-time data and analytics
- Built backend functionality for processing and storing application and device data, connected through to client-facing web and mobile experiences
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