Behind the build
About
Building the web with craft & code
I'm Vincent Robles, and I build the systems businesses run on. A clinic group tracking patient history in spreadsheets. An office routing job orders on paper. A platform that has outgrown the tool it started in. I work end to end, from the data model and the API through the interface and the deployment, which means there is nobody to hand the hard part to halfway through.
I studied Information Systems, which is a useful accident: it means I was taught to look at how a business actually works before writing a schema for it, and that habit is most of why these projects land. The rest is the code.
Frontend
Backend
Data
Tooling
Track record
Where I've put in the work
2025 - Present
Operations Systems & Web Applications
Independent
Working directly with clients to replace spreadsheet-and-paper processes with software they own: requirements, data model, interface, deployment, and the handover. Projects have spanned veterinary clinic operations, rental property management, and psychometric assessment.
2025
Job & Purchase Order Automation
Linkwise Tech Philippines
Replaced a paper-based job order and purchase order process with tracked approval workflows inside the company's existing staff portal, cutting the time admin staff spent routing paperwork. Owned the database design, the interface, and the Laravel build.
2022 - 2025
WordPress Development & Design
Independent
Custom WordPress plugins and Gutenberg blocks in PHP for clients who needed more than a theme could give them, plus responsive landing page builds and the on-page SEO work that followed them.
2022 - 2025
Broadcasting Overlay Development
TUP GEAR
Built and maintained live in-game broadcasting overlays across multiple titles, from routine match-day maintenance to new interactive designs used on air.
Beyond the Code
What I do when I'm not shipping
Digital Art
Composition and color studies away from the terminal. A different kind of problem-solving.
Photography
Framing, light, and patience. The same eye for detail that shows up in pixel-perfect UI.
Touching Grass
Just going outside. Genuinely the most underrated debugging tool.