Senior Full Stack Developer • AI Integrations • Legacy Modernization

I build scalable digital products, modernize aging platforms, and ship practical AI features that support real business workflows.

With 16+ years across enterprise systems, media platforms, and modern web products, I help teams move faster through strong architecture, hands-on execution, and product-minded engineering.

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16+

Years delivering web products, business systems, and modern software platforms

AI + Full Stack

From RAG and automation to React, Laravel, Node.js, and production APIs

Enterprise to Startup

Experienced in both complex legacy environments and greenfield product builds

Product-minded

Balances user value, delivery speed, maintainability, and business goals.

Hands-on senior execution

Comfortable leading architecture while still shipping across the stack.

Modern + legacy fluency

Strong in both greenfield delivery and pragmatic modernization work.

AI without hype

Builds AI features that fit real workflows, constraints, and teams.

Featured Work

Flagship projects presented as case studies

Featured projects chosen to demonstrate technical range, business impact, and the ability to deliver across complex product environments.

AI Content Systems React Node.js OpenAI API

Advertorial Generation Engine

Helped develop an AI-powered advertorial generation engine inside a React and Node.js platform to streamline campaign creation, reduce repetitive manual work, and support faster content production.

Challenge

Manual campaign content creation made scaling slower and more operationally expensive.

Solution

Integrated AI-assisted generation directly into the workflow so teams could create and iterate faster.

Outcome

Improved campaign throughput, content velocity, and operator efficiency.

Modernization Laravel Livewire AngularJS

Legacy Platform Modernization

Contributed to the migration of a high-traffic AngularJS and jQuery platform to a more maintainable Laravel and Livewire stack through a phased modernization approach.

Challenge

The legacy frontend slowed delivery, complicated maintenance, and limited future evolution.

Solution

Delivered incremental modernization that improved architecture without disrupting active operations.

Outcome

Improved maintainability, developer velocity, and long-term extensibility with zero downtime.

Selected Projects

Professional and personal builds across media, productivity, AI, and cloud

A broader sample of work that reflects technical range, product thinking, and practical implementation across different contexts.

Professional

GIF Processing Platform

Improved backend media pipelines using FFmpeg and enhanced frontend workflows for real-time GIF creation and editing.

Laravel FFmpeg React

Professional

Advertorial Page Builder

Took ownership of a GrapesJS-based page builder, maintaining and extending it through bug fixes, feature enhancements, and ongoing support for dynamic content variation and A/B testing workflows.

GrapesJS Laravel JavaScript

Personal

TrackWise App

A full-stack productivity and workflow tracking platform designed to manage operations and surface actionable insights through a clean interface.

Next.js Node.js MongoDB Docker NGINX

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Personal

AI Trading Bot

Event-driven trading system that processes financial news, applies AI sentiment analysis, and executes trades through Alpaca Markets with built-in risk controls and portfolio tracking.

Next.js Node.js Alpaca API AI / LLM Docker

Personal

AI HR Assistant (RAG)

RAG-based assistant for contextual HR policy retrieval through a conversational interface, making information access faster and easier.

Next.js OpenAI ChromaDB

Personal

JobEntry

A serverless job listing platform built on AWS for scalable APIs, low-overhead operations, and fast static delivery.

AWS Lambda API Gateway DynamoDB S3 AWS Amplify

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Experience

Built through hands-on delivery, modernization, and long-term platform ownership

Senior Software Developer

Full Scale • 2022 – Present

AI prototyping & integration • platform maintenance • feature enhancement

Contribute across multiple high-traffic products through feature development, maintenance, bug fixing, and platform enhancement. Built a prototype RAG-based HR assistant using Next.js, ChromaDB, OpenAI API, and Tailwind CSS, while also supporting AI-driven content generation workflows in a React.js and Node.js platform. Maintain and modernize legacy AngularJS + jQuery systems by transitioning key functionality into Laravel 12, Livewire 3, and Flux, while preserving existing behavior and ensuring zero downtime. Also maintain and enhance media processing, creative tooling, and advertorial page-building platforms using Laravel, ReactJS, FFmpeg, fabric.js, and GrapesJS.

Associate Manager / Advanced Engineering Specialist / Analyst

Accenture • 2015 – 2022

Technical leadership • frontend delivery • workflow automation

Progressed from analyst to associate manager while contributing across frontend engineering, technical design, estimation, and delivery quality. Built responsive interfaces for enterprise platforms using Bootstrap, jQuery, and HTML5, supported rigorous testing and code quality practices, and collaborated closely with onshore and offshore teams. Also developed workflow tooling such as a Slack bot for surfacing IBM ClearQuest tickets, improving visibility and reducing manual tracking.

Earlier Experience

Gold Coast Multimedia, WebExpress, and PhilWeb • 2011 – 2015

WordPress • CMS • eCommerce • custom PHP

Built websites and web applications across WordPress, custom CMS platforms, eCommerce, and PHP-based systems. This period built my foundation in frontend development, backend integration, deployment, client support, and delivering a wide range of business websites and custom web platforms.

Skills

Capabilities organized around the work you do

Frontend architecture

React, Next.js, AngularJS, Tailwind CSS, Bootstrap, Livewire

Backend systems

PHP, Laravel, Node.js, Express, REST APIs, background processing

AI and automation

OpenAI, RAG workflows, prompt-driven systems, GitHub Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT

Cloud, data, and tooling

AWS Lambda, API Gateway, MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Docker, FFmpeg, GrapesJS, Fabric.js

Certifications

Selected credentials

A shorter, more curated set of certifications keeps the emphasis on experience while still reinforcing AI, DevOps, and cloud skills.

Microsoft Learn Credly Skillsoft

Develop unit tests using GitHub Copilot tools

Microsoft · Nov 2025

Developer use cases for AI with GitHub Copilot

Microsoft · Nov 2025

Using advanced GitHub Copilot features

Microsoft · Sep 2025

Docker Essentials: A Developer Introduction

IBM · Nov 2024

AI Fundamentals

Google

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

Udemy · May 2022

Contact

Open to senior roles, consulting, and AI-driven product work

If you need someone who can bridge product thinking, modern engineering, and practical AI implementation, let’s connect.

Email hello@jasontaladro.dev GitHub github.com/johnjasontaladro LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/john-jason-taladro