Nelmin Jay Anoc – Senior Software Engineer Portfolio
// Senior Software Engineer · Backend · Cloud · Agentic Systems
// 6+ years building things that run when nobody's watching
"name": "Nelmin Jay Anoc"
"location": "Butuan, Caraga, Philippines"
"email": nelminjay.anoc@gmail.com
"linkedin": linkedin.com/in/nelmin-jay-anoc
"github": github.com/stinkymonkeyph
"focus": "Backend, Cloud, Agentic Systems, R&D"
Experience
Principal Backend Engineer
Vanhorn Law Group · Remote · Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
Mar 2026 – Present
- Technical lead and key decision maker on technology, algorithms, and architecture, collaborating closely with fellow developers
- Engineered an agentic system that drafts legal documents and reviews and assesses bankruptcy cases
- Built a chatbot aggregation agent that unifies data from multiple sources
- Engineered an agentic document-template workflow with reusable templates for more deterministic drafting
- Engineered a model-optimization layer with learned query caching — the agent pre-runs scenarios to gather data and saves optimized queries for vector search and email retrieval
- Implemented a tiered model-switching approach that assesses task difficulty upfront and routes each request to a cheaper or more expensive model accordingly, optimizing cost and performance
- Drove research & development initiatives, prototyping and evaluating emerging AI techniques to strengthen system capability
Senior Software Engineer
BIST Consulting · Germany
Sep 2025 – Present · Part-time
- AI-driven consulting — agentic systems design, architecture, and R&D
- Leading backend development across multiple client engagements
Senior Software Engineer
98Labs Inc. · Makati, Philippines
Jun 2022 – Sep 2025
- Batch processing, data engineering, bank statement analysis pipelines
- Cloud solutions design and product-driven R&D
Information Technology Officer
Mindanao State University · Marawi, Philippines
Jan 2019 – Jun 2022
- Lead software dev & sysadmin — legacy systems, DevOps, DBA, networking
Senior Software Engineer
DBuzz · Davao City, Philippines
Oct 2020 – Aug 2021
- Led international team on blockchain social network (Hive blockchain)
- Systems design, infra provisioning, witness node maintenance
Junior Software Engineer
ChainBytes – Bitcoin ATM Provider · New York, USA
Oct 2019 – Apr 2020
- Bitcoin ATM kiosk software — deployment, support, maintenance
Skills
Agentic Systems
Rust
Cloud Engineering
Backend Development
Data Engineering
Blockchain
Systems Design
DevOps
Database Administration
Education
degree: BS Information Technology – Database Systems
school: Mindanao State University
Certifications
Google Associate Cloud Engineer
Civil Service Eligibility – Professional
Open Source Contributions
- Contributed to the open-source decentralized social media frontend built on the Hive blockchain
- Authored and published oxide-arbiter, a memory-safe Centralized Limit Order Book (CLOB) written in Rust with price-time priority matching, support for limit and market orders, four time-in-force policies (GTC, IOC, FOK, DAY), partial fills, and multi-asset order book management
Koan
student: Master, I call
read() and data appears. I call fetch() and the network answers. Should I not simply be grateful?
master: *(long silence)*
master: Tell me — when the magician waves his hand and the rabbit disappears, do you applaud the hand?
When a rabbit is placed inside the Black Box and vanishes on cue,
it is the audience's privilege to simply ooh and aah in wonderment.
But we who step on stage should know how the trick is done.
The loss of innocence is the price of applause.
The student bowed, opened a new tab, and read the source.
Signal
Mr. Robot: Sure, there are grays, but when you come right down to it, at its core, beneath every choice, there's either a one or a zero. You either do something or you don't.
// interested? let's build something.