John Lloyd Lawas

Full Stack Developer with 7+ years building production software — from enterprise ASP.NET Core and Angular platforms (ERP, aviation logistics, manufacturing) to AI-integrated Chrome extensions and SaaS products. Currently full-time at Liftoff Company Inc., shipping LLM-backed features with Cursor and Claude Code in the daily loop. Strong on legacy modernization, async collaboration across time zones, and turning tangled business logic into maintainable code.

Software Developer at Liftoff Company Inc. (2025-03 – Present)

Part-time collaboration: October 2021 – March 2025 (converted to full-time)

• Maintain and extend a suite of Chrome extensions used in production.
• Design and ship features across several SaaS products with heavy AI integration.
• Integrate LLM APIs (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini) into product workflows.
• Work primarily with AI-native tooling — Cursor and Claude Code — as the daily driver for development.
• Collaborate async with a small, distributed team.
• Impact: Shipped AI-powered features into production Chrome extensions; significantly reduced feature turnaround time through AI-assisted workflows.

Mid Software Engineer III at Nowcom Global Services (2022-12 – 2025-03)

• Collaborated with stakeholders to gather requirements and propose technical solutions.
• Designed and developed.NET-based enterprise applications, integrating third-party and in-house systems.
• Revamped an in-house legacy application using.NET and Angular.
• Worked with Agile teams and performed code reviews.
• Stayed current with cloud,.NET platform, and web development tooling.
• Impact: Modernized legacy applications, improving performance by ~40%; mentored junior developers on best practices and code reviews.

Software Engineer at Yondu Inc. (2022-01 – 2022-12)

• Translated technical designs into functional code for backend and frontend.
• Implemented efficient program logic and data manipulation.
• Developed and maintained unit tests.
• Diagnosed and resolved software issues promptly.
• Managed project source-code repositories.
• Impact: Maintained a 100% on-time project delivery record; raised code coverage by ~60% through a deliberate unit-testing strategy.

Senior Application Developer at OSL International Inc. (2019-11 – 2022-01)

• Developed web applications using ASP.NET Core, ASP.NET Framework, and Angular.
• Modernized existing web applications with current frameworks.
• Scoped requirements for website enhancement requests.
• Maintained code and application quality standards across the team.
• Mentored colleagues and helped resolve day-to-day development issues.
• Impact: Led modernization of 5+ legacy applications; established coding standards for the development team; reduced application load times by ~50% through optimization.

Software Design & Development Engineer at Sense Software Solutions (2019-05 – 2019-10)

• Designed and developed web applications using ASP.NET for aviation and logistics.
• Created WCF web services and Web APIs.
• Developed Angular web applications.
• Collaborated with business architects in Singapore to coordinate requirements.
• Impact: Delivered an aviation logistics application adopted by multiple airlines; implemented robust WCF services handling high-volume transactions.

Software Developer Intern at Lear Corporation (2018-06 – 2019-04)

• Designed and developed in-house web applications using ASP.NET MVC.
• Participated in code reviews and team development processes.
• Assisted in maintaining existing applications.
• Impact: Converted from intern to a full-time developer track based on shipped work; contributed internal tools that improved team productivity.