Neil BragsNeil Brags Guzman

Experience

• Owner

  Ori
  2024 – Present

  • Run Ori, a side business that builds websites and small systems for startups, handling each project from the first client call through delivery.
  • Built ori.brags.dev in Next.js and TypeScript: clients describe the site or system they need, see pricing converted to their own currency, and submit a build request that is delivered to me by transactional email.

• Full Stack Intern

  TESI
  Jan 2026 – Apr 2026

  • Completed a 244-hour internship building and maintaining apps on the OutSystems low-code platform, writing custom JavaScript and React where the built-in widgets fell short.
  • Developed a hotel booking app, owning prototyping and feature development from early prototype to working implementation.
  • Designed screens in Figma and built them into the booking app's OutSystems frontend.
  • Maintained and documented a loan management app used by seafarers.

• AI Engineer

  Labelbox
  Jun 2025 – Jan 2026

  • Wrote Python scripts with pandas and NumPy to detect corrupted records and correct mislabeled examples in LLM training datasets.
  • Fine-tuned local models on the cleaned data using Hugging Face Transformers and MLX, running inference through Ollama, to check that the cleaning improved output quality.
  • Scored model outputs against defined evaluation rubrics alongside other AI engineers.

• Full Stack Engineer

  The Async Studio
  Apr 2025 – Jan 2026

  • Maintained and extended production client apps in TypeScript, shipping features across Next.js frontends and Node.js/Express REST APIs.
  • Worked across MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Supabase depending on the client, using Prisma for schema and queries on the SQL databases.
  • Implemented authentication with NextAuth (OAuth providers) and JWT-based sessions for the Express APIs.
  • Deployed frontends to Vercel and backend services to AWS, packaging services with Docker.
  • Built a customer support chatbot for an e-commerce site as a Python service (FastAPI and Flask) calling the OpenAI API, which the Node.js backend called for chat responses.
  • Turned client requirements into working prototypes of websites and internal systems, including inventory systems, so clients could review them before full development started.

• iOS & Full Stack Developer

  The Async Studio
  Apr 2025 – Jan 2026

  • Moved from the full stack team to focus on mobile, building client apps in SwiftUI and in React Native with Expo.
  • Built the mobile side of client apps from Figma UI design through implementation, connected to the team's Node.js APIs.
  • Shipped an Expo app to both iOS and Android, using SQLite for local on-device storage.
  • Released iOS builds through TestFlight and the App Store.