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RAINER LACANLALE

Full-Stack Developer · AI & Agentic Systems

I design and build complete digital products — from the website a customer sees to the backend behind it and the AI that does the work inside it.

Ralph Rainer Lacanlale
  • MIT LicensedRust + TypeScript504 commitsLive on Google PlayAWS · Cloudflare · Vercel

Who you are hiring

I am a full-stack developer who builds the whole product, not one slice of it.

That means the part people see — the site or the app — and the part they do not: the database, the accounts, the payments, the admin screens your own staff use. I design it as well as build it, so the way it looks and the way it works are decided together rather than handed between two people.

On top of that I build AI agents. An agent is software that reads your real data and then takes an action on it — answering a customer with the actual stock level, turning a written brief into a schedule, updating an order — instead of just producing text. Most of my work starts the same way: someone is doing something by hand every day that software should be doing.

Capabilities

What I build

Two kinds of work, sold to two kinds of buyer: the thing your customers use, and the thing that runs the business behind it. Most projects need some of both.

  • Track 01

    Websites & apps

    The public-facing side of the business — the things a customer actually touches, built to load fast and be edited without a developer.

    • Landing pages
    • E-commerce
    • Portfolio & brand sites
    • Full-stack web apps
    • Mobile apps
  • Track 02

    AI agentic systems

    The operational side — software that does the repetitive work a person is currently doing by hand, grounded in your live business data.

    • Agentic operating systems
    • Support & operations agents
    • Workflow automation
    • Integration & data plumbing

How I work, and what drives the cost →

Creator & Maintainer · MIT License

Regent

Shipped, open source, and it remembers what matters — without a single line of your data leaving the machine.

  • 504 commits
  • ≥ 0.75 recall@5, eval-gated
  • 17+ chat platforms
  • 36 architecture decision records
Read the case study

Selected work — 01

Regent

Creator & Maintainer · MIT License · May 2026 – Present

Shipped, open source, and it remembers what matters — without a single line of your data leaving the machine.

An AI assistant that runs on your own computer instead of in someone else’s cloud. It is for people who want the usefulness of an AI assistant without handing their files, messages and API keys to a third party — so everything stays on the machine. I designed and built it, and it is open source, so the code and the decisions behind it can be read rather than taken on trust.

  • Rust
  • TypeScript
  • Tokio
  • SQLite
  • GitHub Actions
  • cargo-deny
Regent chat window with the session list open in the sidebar
Regent generating a labelled photosynthesis flowchart from a spoken question
Regent's butler mode listening, with a live dot-matrix waveform above the conversation, results and insights tabs
504
commits
≥ 0.75
recall@5, eval-gated
17+
chat platforms
36
architecture decision records

Selected work — 02

Nesko

Founder & Lead Developer · March 2025 – Present

Live on Google Play, and running on an eighth of the database bill it started with.

A phone app for people who know what they have to do but not when to do it. You describe the week in your own words and it lays out a real schedule, with an assistant inside it that can create the tasks, look things up, draft a document and read through your email for what you missed. I founded it and built the whole thing — app, backend and the AI layer — and it is live on Google Play.

  • Flutter
  • AWS Lambda
  • DynamoDB
  • API Gateway
  • S3/CloudFront
  • Cognito
  • OpenRouter
Nesko daily checklist with urgency and importance tags on each task
Nesko turning a written brief into a visual schedule
NeskoChat, the in-app agent that creates tasks and searches
88.24%
DynamoDB cost reduction
Live
on Google Play

References

What people say

  • It's easy to work with him. He asks lots of related questions and really listens to understand what we want and our vision. When he delivers, he did more than what we expect. Overall he is nice to work with.

    D.C.Client
  • This app (Nesko) makes my schedule more easier to do and it organize it well.

    J.R.User, Nesko
  • I worked with Rainer on several of his projects — feature tweaks, UI/UX improvements, and quality assurance. He is receptive to feedback and actively looks for ways to improve, and he puts in the extra effort to make his work functional, polished, and reliable. I would confidently recommend him to anyone looking for someone dependable, motivated, and committed to delivering high-quality results.

    L.P.Developer
  • Based on his skills and expertise, he suggested different options, alternatives, and improvements for the elements we planned to add. He was able to innovate and adapt our ideas and design preferences, resulting in a better overall website. I would definitely recommend him to others because he is professional, collaborative, and delivers quality work.

    R.M.Client
  • Based on the quality of Rainer's projects, he demonstrates strong attention to details and a good understanding of web development. His outputs appear user-friendly and if he improves or continues to maintain this level of quality and professionalism, I would feel confident recommending him to others who are looking for a reliable web developer.

    Z.G.Client

Tooling

Stack

01 / 05

AI & Agents

  • Claude API
  • OpenAI API
  • OpenRouter
  • LangChain
  • RAG
  • Ollama
  • n8n

02 / 05

Languages

  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • Rust
  • Dart
  • PHP
  • SQL
  • C#

03 / 05

Frontend

  • Next.js
  • React
  • React Native
  • Flutter
  • Tauri
  • Tailwind CSS
  • GSAP

04 / 05

Backend

  • Node.js
  • FastAPI
  • Tokio
  • Laravel
  • Supabase
  • DynamoDB
  • REST

05 / 05

Cloud & DevOps

  • AWS
  • Cloudflare
  • Vercel
  • Docker
  • Terraform
  • GitHub Actions

Contact

Let's talk

Interested in collaborating, or want something built? I'm in the Philippines (UTC+8) and work with teams across time zones.