Jose Marcelius Hipolito
Senior Fullstack Developer @ AKQA
I build scalable web applications
Featured Work
FYP Creator Platform
A creator platform I designed and built solo — from database schema to deployment. The experience of wearing every hat on a real product.
TitanFX Dashboard Modernization
Solo frontend migration of a live trading platform. Thousands of daily users, zero tolerance for downtime, and a backend team that thinks in jQuery.
Developer Experience Tools
Three tools born from specific pain — a CS team that couldn't reproduce bugs, QAs blocked by stale cache, and translations that wouldn't update on lower environments.
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Amazon Blamed the Humans
Amazon's AI coding tool deleted and recreated a production environment. The official statement blamed the humans. The post-hoc safeguards told a different story.
How the Orchestrator Actually Works: 7 Packages, 4,570 Lines, Zero Magic
I typed orchestrator run and watched three agents spin up in parallel, each writing to its own directory, none aware the others existed. This is the 4,570-line Go system that makes that work.
MCPs Are Dead. CLIs Won.
A Hacker News post declared the protocol wars over. I've been building on that thesis for months — 175 missions, 9 plugins, zero MCPs. Here's what I actually learned.
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