Open to software engineer roles

Chester Ken
Gallego

Software Engineer

I build the back-office systems a business runs on: inventory, warehouse, treasury, budgeting, and demand planning, mostly in C#, ASP.NET MVC, and Oracle PL/SQL. Computer Science at UP Visayas, cum laude.

Demand forecast with a widening confidence band Twelve months of demand history rising from left to right, continuing into a six-month forecast. A shaded confidence interval around the forecast widens as the horizon extends. In the chart, the solid line is actual demand, the dashed line is the forecast, and the shaded band is the confidence interval. 12 mo history +6 mo forecast today
The demand-forecasting engine I built at Macky Champ: five statistical models with automatic selection, backtested to ~5% MAPE. The band widens because the further out you plan, the less you honestly know.
about

The systems that break
loudly when they're wrong.

Most of my day goes into inventory, purchase orders, treasury cash counts, and budget consolidation for companies that would notice immediately if any of it stopped working. C#, ASP.NET MVC, and a lot of Oracle PL/SQL.

I like the parts of the job that other people find tedious: getting a stock ledger to reconcile, writing the procedure that refuses a bad save, documenting a module so the next developer does not have to guess. The work I am proudest of is the demand-forecasting engine, because it had to be honest about its own uncertainty rather than just confident.

On my own time I am building a management system for an animal bite treatment center, a real clinic with real vaccination schedules to keep track of. Before that I studied computer science at UP Visayas in Iloilo, where I also started drawing pixel-art sprites for small games, which I still do.

Where I've worked

Oct 2025 - Present
Parañaque, Metro Manila

Junior Software Developer · Macky Champ Software Ventures, Inc.

  • Cut forecast error to ~5% MAPE on backtested historical sales with a demand-forecasting engine that picks its own model and is honest about its own uncertainty: five statistical models (Croston, SBA, TSB, Holt-Winters, and ARIMA) with automatic model selection, seasonality detection, and confidence intervals from a z-score margin that widens with the horizon.
  • Extended it into a full demand-planning system covering the path from raw sales history to an agreed, capacity-checked plan: historical cleansing, consensus plan, and capacity-constrained supply planning.
  • Kept thousand-row planning grids workable in the browser by putting an IndexedDB layer underneath them.
  • Built six inventory and order modules in C#/ASP.NET MVC covering POs, receipts, issuance, adjustments, shipments, and returns, integrated with WMS and finance to eliminate manual re-keying across order-to-cash and procure-to-pay, with auto-posted GL journal entries.
  • Wrote a formula engine (tokenizer, parser, AST evaluator) powering a self-service budget planning and consolidation module covering department roll-ups, CAPEX depreciation, multi-currency conversion, and variance analysis, so finance could define budget lines without dev involvement.
  • Built a revolving-fund and replenishment subsystem in treasury implementing the full cash-custody lifecycle: cash-count reconciliation with photographic evidence, shortage/overage adjustments, and replenishment approvals.
  • Shipped 79 new warehouse management screens covering contracts, billing, storage master data, and access control, adapted across multiple client deployments.
  • Extended AP/AR, CRM, and freight-forwarding modules (matching, liquidations, lead tracking) with reports; wrote Oracle PL/SQL procedures and Excel import/export pipelines with validation; authored developer and end-user documentation across all modules.
Jun 2024 - Jul 2024
Manila, Metro Manila

Software Engineer Intern · Seaversity, Inc.

  • Built SeavXR, a full-stack web application, from company Figma mockups using the Nuxt framework.
  • Collaborated with a team of interns to scope and deliver project requirements.

Selected work

A clinic system currently in the works, plus academic, hackathon-spirited, and just-for-fun builds across web, mobile, ML, and games.

UP Tap attendance reports dashboard
Undergraduate thesis · 2024-2025

UP Tap

An attendance management system for the UP System that pairs FaceNet facial recognition with the new UP RFID card for fast, accurate, two-step student identification.

PythonDjangoDjango-NinjaNuxt 3PostgreSQLDeepFace
IsKommerce e-commerce homepage
Web development · 2023

IsKommerce

An e-commerce platform giving UPV student organizations an online storefront to sell merchandise, boosting exposure and school spirit.

PHPMySQLJavaScriptHTML/CSS
Mobile · Software engineering · 2023-2024

PawPal

A mobile app connecting pet owners seeking guidance with veterinarians offering online services, putting advice, help, and care in one place.

React NativeFirebaseFigma
OmeChat home screen
Mobile · 2023

OmeChat

An Omegle-inspired mobile app for anonymous one-on-one conversations with strangers, built with Flutter and a Firebase backend.

FlutterDartFirebase
Game · Pixel art

Isko Runner

A T-Rex-Runner-inspired endless game where you jump over the terrifying sinkos to chase a high score. Hand-drawn pixel-art sprites included.

PythonPygamePixel Art
Terminal chess board mid-game
OOP · Java

Terminal Chess

A two-player terminal chess engine demonstrating the four pillars of OOP, with full move validation, check/checkmate detection, castling, en passant, and promotion.

JavaOOP
Actual vs. predicted gym crowdedness scatter plot
Machine learning

Gym Crowdedness Prediction

An ML notebook that predicts gym crowdedness from historical data, helping gym-goers pick the optimal time to work out.

PythonJupyterscikit-learn
Game · Unity

Italian Brainrot 2D

A 2D action game built in Unity: an experiment in game feel, slash effects, and C# gameplay scripting.

C#UnityGame Dev
skills

What I actually use

Ranked by how often I open them, not by how good they look in a list.

Every working day

the Macky Champ stack, plus the domain it runs on

Languages
C#PL/SQLSQLJavaScript
Frameworks & libraries
ASP.NET MVCjQueryBootstrapRDLCClosedXMLExcelJS
Data & tools
OracleDatabase DesignSVNGit / GitHub
Domain
ERPWMSDemand ForecastingSupply PlanningTechnical Writing

Shipped something with

side projects, thesis work, and the internship

Languages
TypeScriptPythonPHP
Web frameworks
Next.jsReactNuxtVue.jsNode.jsTailwind CSS
Mobile
React NativeFlutter
Data & backend
PostgreSQLMySQLDrizzle ORMFirebaseREST APIs
Practices & tools
PlaywrightVitestAutomated TestingOOPFigma

Used, but not lately

coursework and early projects, listed so the picture is complete

Languages
CC++Java
Craft
Game DevPixel Art

Education

University of the Philippines Visayas

B.S. in Computer Science · cum laude
Consistent Honorific Scholar DOST-SEI Merit Scholar
Sep 2021 - Jul 2025 Miagao, Iloilo

UP High School in Iloilo

ABM Strand (Accountancy, Business & Management)
Graduated with Honors
Jul 2015 - Oct 2021 Iloilo City, Iloilo

Looking for my
next system.

I'm open to software engineer roles, especially anything close to inventory, finance, or planning. Email reaches me fastest and I read all of it.