gabe.dev
2026 · Curriculum Vitae
CV · Full Career History

Gabe.
Lalasava

Full-Stack Developer & Founder — 20+ years building AI-powered SaaS, real-time platforms, and mobile apps from zero to production.

Led cross-functional teams, founded 4 companies, and shipped products used by tens of thousands. Current focus: AI-powered business tools, productivity platforms, and collaborative software.

gabe.m82.ai
linkedin.com/in/bucabay
github.com/fijiwebdesign
San Diego, CA
20+
Years Dev
10+
Years React
12+
Years Node
Founder
Career History

Where I've worked.

Two decades of full-stack engineering, team leadership, and founding ventures — from enterprise platforms to AI-powered SaaS.

Earlier Career

Foundation years.

Enterprise engineering, mentoring, e-commerce at scale, and founding a web agency — the roots of 20+ years of full-stack experience.

Mentor — Angular, React & Node.js

Thinkful · Miami, FL

Mentored developers on full-stack web technologies including Node.js, Angular, React, and JavaScript fundamentals. Guided students through project-based curriculum and code reviews.

Angular · React · Node.js · JavaScript · Mentoring

Principal Angular UI Developer

HP · Florida

Redeveloped the UI of HP's TorQue Cloud Server Automation Software. Built enterprise-grade interfaces with Angular.js, Node.js, jQuery, Bootstrap, LESS, and CoffeeScript.

Angular.js · Node.js · jQuery · Bootstrap · LESS · CoffeeScript

PHP Developer

Walt Disney Internet Group · Orlando, FL

E-commerce development for disney.com with Zend Framework. BDD methodology with PHPUnit 98% code coverage and JBehave/Selenium testing for quality assurance.

PHP · Zend Framework · PHPUnit · JBehave · Selenium

Lead PHP Developer

Brilliance, LLC · West Palm Beach, FL

Multi-server e-commerce platform with 70,000+ products. Apache Solr faceted search and diamond recommendation algorithms for a luxury retail experience.

PHP · Apache Solr · MySQL · E-commerce
Selected Projects

Things I've built.

Products I've founded, contributed to, or shipped as lead developer — AI SaaS, real-time platforms, P2P streaming, and mobile apps.

Founder

SendHub.ai

AI-powered WhatsApp messaging for businesses. Unified inbox with AI auto-replies, team collaboration, Shopify integration, multi-tenant via WhatsApp Business API + Matrix bridge.

React · Hono · CF Workers · Supabase · Gemini · MCP
Founder · Lead

Hardroad

Cloud SaaS daily action planner. Real-time sync via MQTT, offline-first architecture, relational integrity from UI to DB, and AI-powered coaching.

React · React Native · MobX · Fastify · MQTT · Swift
Founder

Offmode.ai

AI-powered collaborative workspace and knowledge management. Real-time editing with Yjs, vector search on pgvector, RBAC, and AI chat assistance.

Next.js · Yjs · pgvector · OpenAI
Founder

NoteOn.space

Live team notes with AI knowledge base. Rich editing with BlockNote, Excalidraw drawing, real-time collaboration via WebRTC + PartyKit, and Stripe billing.

Next.js · BlockNote · Excalidraw · PartyKit
Open Source

Seedess

P2P 4K video streaming on BitTorrent. WebTorrent optimizations, DLNA/UPnP Smart TV casting, service worker delivery, and React video player.

WebTorrent · BitTorrent · DLNA · React
2024

Nexai

Conversational AI platform for live support with developer chatbot API. Fastest known in-browser semantic search using FlexSearch + semantic cache.

LangChain · Socket.io · TensorFlow.js · Redis
2017

Factmata

AI fact-checking Chrome extension validating statistical accuracy of webpage claims using NLP. React frontend with Python + HUG API backend.

React · Python · NLP · Chrome Ext
2018

Hectare / SellMyLivestock

React Native marketplace for Europe's #1 online livestock platform. Algolia-powered semantic search serving ~65K farmers on iOS and Android.

React Native · Algolia · iOS · Android
Tech I Work With

Full-stack, end to end.

Comfortable across the entire stack — from React and React Native on the frontend, to Node.js and Python on the backend, to deploying on AWS, GCP, and Cloudflare.

Frontend
React React Native Next.js TypeScript Tailwind MobX Astro Angular Electron
Backend
Node.js Python PHP Hono Fastify MQTT WebSockets Prisma REST
AI / ML
LLMs RAG LangChain pgvector Claude OpenAI Gemini NLP Semantic Search
Infra
AWS GCP Cloudflare Docker Redis PostgreSQL Supabase MongoDB
Key Highlights

What sets me apart.

  • 4× Founder — SendHub.ai, Hardroad, Offmode.ai, NoteOn.space, plus Fiji Web Design agency
  • AI Augmentation — deep experience using LLMs for development, testing, deployment, documentation, and end-to-end automation with Claude Code
  • Real-Time Systems — MQTT, WebSockets, Yjs, WebRTC, MobX reactive architectures across web and mobile
  • Full-Stack Ownership — from iOS/Android/React frontends through Node/Python APIs to AWS/GCP/Cloudflare deployments
  • Team Leadership — cross-functional team lead, mentor, and technical founder across multiple ventures
  • Enterprise Experience — shipped production software at HP, Walt Disney, and across multiple startups
  • Open Source — contributed to WebTorrent ecosystem, built commercial Joomla products, open-source P2P video streaming
Let's build something together

Available for new projects

Looking for a full-stack engineer or founding engineer? I'm open to senior IC, tech lead, and founding roles working on AI-powered SaaS, real-time platforms, and developer tools. Reach out at [email protected].