I’m Niles Cabrera.
I build things that reach people and change how they work.
Everything else follows from that. Backend and full-stack systems. Currently a Full Stack Engineering Partner at PayMongo (YC S19).
- businesses reached at PayMongo
- 30,000+businesses reached at PayMongo
- cat records synced at AGILA
- 500+cat records synced at AGILA
- org members off a manual workflow
- 40+org members off a manual workflow
Experience
Full Stack Engineering Partner
Sep 2026 – present
PayMongo (YC S19)Led integration with Google, OpenAI and other AI platforms so multi-merchant product feeds for 30,000+ businesses are discoverable and transactable by agents. Engineered the Go protocol translation gateway (UCP) that maps stateless AI requests onto PayMongo's stateful commerce core, so agentic transactions run on the e-wallet rails behind 54% of regional volume.
- Go
- UCP
Full Stack Engineer Intern
Jun – Aug 2026
PayMongo (YC S19)Architected Go and Python agentic payments infrastructure on AWS Bedrock and PH fiat gateways for fully autonomous, guard-railed checkouts across two commerce protocols: UCP for fiat, x402 for crypto. Owned user flows and a design system migration on a live money-movement app, consolidating 14+ payment methods.
- Go
- Python
- AWS Bedrock
- React Native
- TanStack Query
- Zod
- TypeScript
Project Manager & Lead Developer
Jan – Jun 2026
AGILALed a 4-person team replacing a spreadsheet-bound workflow at a 200+ member animal welfare organization, and architected the two-way sync engine that made the migration invisible to the 40+ org members who ran on it.
- Next.js
- PostgreSQL
- Supabase
- Google Sheets API
Web Developer
Aug 2025 – May 2026
Ateneo MIS AssociationShipped a sales channel platform for paid client Stage21 Body Kits inside a 10-person agile team: 30+ responsive React components on a Sanity CMS backend.
- Next.js
- React
- Sanity CMS
BS Computer Science
2024 – 2028 expected
Ateneo de Manila University · UndergraduateSoftware engineering, data structures, operating systems, management.
- DOST-SEI Merit Scholar, top 6% of STEM students
- Full Financial Aid Scholar
- Harvard CS50x · University of Helsinki Full Stack Open
What I’ve built
AGILA CATalog
An animal welfare organization's cat records moved off a strained spreadsheet without anyone having to stop using the spreadsheet.
500+cat records
SCHROLLAR
Academic discovery reframed as a feed, so the scrolling reflex produces a research trail instead of nothing.
2nd runner-up of 25+ teams at GDG HackFest: Axis, March 2026
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KLUTCH
Gig-economy matching run on local models, so the matching logic does not depend on somebody else's API bill.
2nd runner-up of 30+ teams at DLSU Hackercup, August 2025
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