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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Building a Memory System for AI Agents
Retrieval rate went from 3.2% to 34.7% — a 10.8x improvement. The biggest gain came from the most boring fix: backfilling 1,009 missing embeddings so hybrid search could actually work.
How AI Agent Memory Actually Works
I watched a breakdown of OpenClaw's memory system and realized Via implements 1 of 4 mechanisms. Our semantic memory is strong — 1,469 learnings in SQLite with hybrid search. But episodic memory? That's the gap.
Fault Tolerance for AI Agents
A 5-phase mission should not die because Phase 3 hit a rate limit. The orchestrator now checkpoints state, resumes from failure, and tears down defensively on every exit path.
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