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Hi, I'm JC Diamante

I craft beautiful, functional, and user-centered digital experiences. Passionate about clean code, machine learning, and solving complex problems.

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JC Diamante

About Me

I'm a Software Engineer at GCash, the Philippines' first $5B fintech unicorn, building backend microservices and internal tools that power an ecosystem of 94 million+ users.

Currently pursuing my Master's in AI at UT Austin while doing ML research on forest fire detection. I love automating tedious tasks, tinkering with my Raspberry Pi homelab, and optimizing my workflow with VIM bindings.

Kalimba
VIM
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🍡
Unicorn

Hackathons

I love collaborating, building, and pitching solutions to real-world problems.

GCash PSD Hackathon 2025 - 1st Runner Up
Globe & AWS Inter-University DeepRacer League 2023
N.A.S.A. Space Apps Challenge 2021
AWS Siklab Pilipinas GameDay Hackathon 2019
ITCUP 2019 Robotics Competition
Y4iT 2018 AWS Siklab Pilipinas Hackathon
GCash PSD Hackathon 2025 - 1st Runner Up
Globe & AWS Inter-University DeepRacer League 2023
N.A.S.A. Space Apps Challenge 2021
AWS Siklab Pilipinas GameDay Hackathon 2019
ITCUP 2019 Robotics Competition
Y4iT 2018 AWS Siklab Pilipinas Hackathon
UT Austin

Studying

Machine Learning

MSAI @ UT Austin 🀘

Philippines

I'm from

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Roughly

8 hours into the future

from your time

8:12PM

Certified βœ“

10 Certifications β€’ AWS β€’ Azure β€’ GitHub β€’ NASA

AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer
AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer Early Adopter
AWS Certified Developer Associate
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
AWS Certified AI Practitioner
AWS AI Practitioner Early Adopter
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate
GitHub Foundations Certification
NASA TOPS Open Science
AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer
AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer Early Adopter
AWS Certified Developer Associate
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
AWS Certified AI Practitioner
AWS AI Practitioner Early Adopter
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate
GitHub Foundations Certification
NASA TOPS Open Science
View all on Credly β†’

Tech Stack

Growing to ❀️ Java

PythonTensorFlowJavaSpring BootTypeScriptReactNext.jsKubernetesDockerLinuxAWSAzurePostgreSQLApache KafkaRedis
INTJ

INTJ

The Architect

"Plans everything,
even plans to plan"

Raspberry Pi

Homelab Tinkerer

Raspberry Pi running 24/7

Automating the boring stuff

Previous Works

A curated collection of my best professional and personal works, built using cutting-edge, industry-leading technologies.

My Journey

From hackathons and student orgs to building fintech for millions. Here's how it all came together.

2024 - Present

Now building fintech infrastructure for 94M+ users at GCash as a Software Engineer, while pursuing my Master's in AI at UT Austin and conducting forest fire detection research at MapΓΊa University.

πŸ’ΌSoftware Engineer @ GCash β€” microservices, platform engineering, React pluginsπŸ”¬Research Scientist @ MapΓΊa β€” forest fire detection with YOLOv12 from aerial imageryπŸŽ“MSAI @ The University of Texas at Austin (2025–2028)πŸ†1st Runner-Up @ GCash Internal Hackathon 2025πŸ“œ5Γ— AWS + Microsoft Azure + GitHub Certified

From cadet to lead in under a year β€” and still learning every day.

Most Outstanding SWE Cadet @ GCash
1st Place @ GCash PSD Internal Hackathon
University tech talks
Forest fire detection research

2020 – 2023

Graduated Magna Cum Laude and Silver Medalist from MapΓΊa University. My AI thesis won Best Undergraduate Thesis and was presented at an international conference in Tokyo. I competed in hackathons, led an NFT startup, and graduated the DOST SPARTA national data science program.

πŸŽ“Magna Cum Laude & Silver Medalist β€” MapΓΊa UniversityπŸ†Best Undergraduate Thesis β€” presented at CIIS 2023, TokyoπŸ’ΌCEO @ Hidalgo NFT β€” led a team of 8, built 10,000+ unique NFTsπŸ’»Full Stack Developer @ VCreatives PH & Intern @ SageSoft SolutionsπŸ‘₯Officer in 5+ student orgs β€” Project Chair, DB Admin, Peer Adviser🌍NASA Space Apps Challenge β€” Local Winner & Global Nominee (2021)πŸ“ŠDOST SPARTA Data Scientist Pathway. Graduate (2020–2022)

From classroom projects to international conferences β€” hard work and curiosity open unexpected doors.

MapΓΊa graduation day
Hidalgo NFT startup
Globe & AWS Inter-University DeepRacer League
DOST PCIEERD Project S.P.A.R.T.A.

Early Years

It all started with curiosity and a love for competitions. By high school I was already winning programming contests, building robots, and teaching myself web development β€” starting with my first personal site at age 8.

πŸŽ“STEM Strand Graduate β€” With High Honors, IT Wizard, Best in Computer ProgrammingπŸ§‘πŸ»β€πŸ’»HS Internship @ Moldex Products Inc β€” IT Service in the VP's OfficeπŸ†AWS Siklab Pilipinas Hackathon Champion (2019) & Top 2 (2018)πŸ€–ITCUP Robotics Competition β€” 2nd Runner-Up (2019)

Showing up and trying is already half the battle.

SHS Graduation
First personal website
Y4iT 2018 AWS Siklab Pilipinas Hackathon
ITCUP 2019 Robotics Competition - 2nd Runner-up

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