Ralph Rainer Lacanlale

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.
• 504 commits · ≥ 0.75 recall@5, eval-gated · 17+ chat platforms · 36 architecture decision records

Rust · TypeScript · Tokio · SQLite · GitHub Actions · cargo-deny

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.
• 88.24% DynamoDB cost reduction · Live on Google Play

Flutter · AWS Lambda · DynamoDB · API Gateway · S3/CloudFront · Cognito · OpenRouter

nesko.app — Designer & Developer

2026 – Present

• Gives Nesko a front door that explains the method before the download, instead of sending prospects straight to a store listing.
• The public page for Nesko, written for someone who has never heard of it: what the app is for, the method behind it, and then the link to install it. Designed and built by me. It exists because sending a stranger straight to a store listing asks them to decide before they have been told anything.
• 1.69k unique viewers, last 24h

DeLightfully Made 818 — Freelance Full-Stack Developer

February 2026 – Present

• Removed 20 hours a week of manual coordination by giving non-technical staff direct control of products, orders and materials.
• An online shop and the system that runs it, for a handmade-crafts business whose products, orders and materials were being tracked by hand across spreadsheets and messages. I built all of it on my own — the storefront customers buy from, the admin screens the owner and staff work in, and two AI assistants that answer questions using the live stock and order data rather than guessing.
• 20 hrs/wk manual coordination removed · 2 AI assistants answering from live data

Next.js · TypeScript · Supabase · Cloudflare · Vercel · RAG

Creator & maintainer — Regent (MIT)

May 2026 – present

Local-first AI assistant. Rust core, single-binary CLI, background daemon. Tri-modal retrieval gated by an eval suite at recall@5 ≥ 0.75. 504 commits, 36 ADRs, published security policy.

Freelance full-stack developer — Small Businesses, Startups, and Organizations

February 2026 – present

Production work for clients in the Philippines and internationally.

Founder & lead developer — Nesko

March 2025 – present

Serverless AI task manager on Flutter and AWS, live on Google Play. Cut DynamoDB spend 88.24% by redesigning schema and indexing around observed access patterns.

Started programming — Self-taught

2023

Wrote my first line of code. Everything else on this list was built in the three years since.