I'm Raymond Sapida. I focus on the plumbing of the web, designing stable backends and scalable data pipelines.
Selected Engagements
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SaaS Integration Platform
- [+] Architected and scaled Rails/Sidekiq services processing 1M+ monthly transactions between Shopify, BigCommerce, and QuickBooks.
- [+] Resolved race conditions in high-volume syncs via Sidekiq middleware, eliminating duplicate-write incidents.
- [+] Engineered retry, backoff, and rate-limit handling for unreliable third-party APIs.
ML-Driven Sensor Data Pipeline
- [+] Engineered a queue-decoupled ETL pipeline (AWS SQS, Lambda, ECS) handing heavy computation from Rails to Python services for machine learning analysis.
- [+] Built idempotent workers guaranteeing exactly-once processing of millions of sensor records across batch retries.
- [+] Delivered reproducible, HIPAA-compliant AWS environments via Terraform for university research studies.
history Legacy & Contributions
Education LMS Platform
Custom Rails learning management system, from data model through production support. Designed and taught a full-stack engineering curriculum.
E-commerce Prototyping
Rails and WordPress e-commerce prototypes. API integration guides and technical documentation for payment services.
Container Orchestration API
RESTful API for container orchestration and access control, plus a real-time container health dashboard. Mentored junior developers on SOLID principles.
Side Projects
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LLM Wiki
A personal knowledge base that began as a Rails bookmark collector and evolved into a RAG system. Scrapes and embeds saved content, then surfaces it through semantic search and LLM-powered question answering.
Bunot.io
A real-time, state-synced implementation of Filipino Mahjong. Exploring high-concurrency game logic and Monte Carlo algorithm for intelligent bot decision-making.
Technical Arsenal
A specialized toolkit spanning the entire lifecycle, optimized for stability and throughput.