Jovel Labay

Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines

Jovel Labay

Lead Full-Stack Engineer

Technical product ownership for web and mobile

Portrait of Jovel Labay

Full-stack engineer and product builder with 5+ years leading the architecture and delivery of web and mobile platforms. I connect the build with the product decision: a tablet POS in live merchant pilots, a Philippine e-commerce store, and an enterprise template used across 2,000+ branches. I modernize legacy systems, deploy on cloud infrastructure, and have mentored junior engineering teams.

Products

Billouvent

2025 — Present

Independent productFounder & Product Engineer

Side venture. Serverless tablet POS for retail, café, and service shops on Android tablet and iPad.

  • Owned the product solo and finished closed testing with 5 merchants in 4 months.
  • Shipped cash and GCash QR checkout, inventory, and a kitchen queue.
  • Architected a 3-tier sync system on the Google Sheets API, with no hosting fee.
billouvent.com

Moto Factory

Jun 2025 — Present

Independent productFounder & Product Engineer

Side venture. Live motorcycle-parts store for riders across the Philippines.

  • Owned architecture, development, deployment, and admin for a Cagayan de Oro business.
  • Launched a 60+ product catalog with checkout, order tracking, and buyer accounts.
  • Integrated PayMongo for QRPh, GCash, Maya, and COD. Live since June 2025.
www.motofactory.store

Experience

  1. Feb 2024 — Present

    React.js / React Native Developer

    Arizto Real Estate · ShoreAgents Inc.

    Web and mobile features for real-estate agents and admins in New Zealand.

    • Architected dashboard modules for leaderboards, property listings, and CRM used by New Zealand agents.
    • Built iOS widgets that sync React Native state into SwiftUI.
    • Owned the App v2 upgrade and triaged production crashes in Sentry.

  2. May 2024 — Aug 2025

    Full-Stack Developer

    Zylun Philippines / CoDev · Sureel AI & Digital Champs

    Two products: a Next.js rewrite, and APIs for an AI product.

    • Led the re-engineering of a class-based React system into Next.js.
    • Designed Fastify APIs and OAuth for Sureel AI, signed off by the product owner.
    • Owned frontend components tied to backend logic through sprint delivery.

  3. Mar 2022 — Feb 2024

    Full-Stack Developer / Tech Lead

    Hatchit Solutions

    Tech lead on enterprise templates, plus client web and mobile delivery.

    • Spearheaded the M Lhuillier POS/QCL/BCA template and deployed it across 2,000+ branches locally and internationally.
    • Shipped the jewellery site redesign in under a week.
    • Drove SurgeTech from stack choice to a React Native launch, and mentored three junior teams.

  4. Jul 2022 — Feb 2023

    Full-Stack Developer

    OpenGov Asia · Part-time, 4 hrs/day

    Internal tools and UI work, four hours a day.

    • Built an internal leave management system used by 20 staff and deployed it on Azure.
    • Led BluaArt maintenance, performance work, and new features from stakeholder feedback.

Stack

Frontend
React.js · Next.js · TypeScript · JavaScript · Tailwind CSS · WordPress · Sanity
Mobile
React Native · Expo · iOS Widgets · SwiftUI · Sentry
Backend
Node.js · Express.js · Fastify · PHP · REST APIs · OAuth · PayMongo
Databases & DevOps
MongoDB · MySQL · Firebase · Supabase · GCP · Azure · AWS · GitHub Actions
AI
Cursor · Generative AI · Model running · Model testing
Domains
E-commerce · Paymongo: QRPh, GCash, Maya, COD · POS & inventory · Fintech · CRM

Education

  • B.S. Information Technology

    Xavier University – Ateneo de Cagayan

    2018 — 2023

  • Information Communication Technology

    Liceo de Cagayan University

    2016 — 2018

  • NCII Computer Systems Servicing

    Crossroads Training Institute

    T E S D A

Contact

Open to lead engineering and technical product roles in web and mobile.

jovellabay@gmail.com

+63 939 771 5303Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines