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7 chapters, 2021 to now. Each one carries the role, the dates and the receipts from that period.
| 2021 to 2025 | |
| Jan 2025 to Jun 2025 | |
| Jul 2025 to Dec 2025 | |
| Jan 2026 to present | |
| May 2026 | |
| Ongoing | |
| 2026 onward |
James Lorenz Santos: the career record
Four engineering roles in under two years, and the degree before them. Every chapter below carries its dates and what the work was, in his own words rather than a summary of them.
Who is James Lorenz Santos?
James Lorenz Santos is an agentic engineer and AI automation developer in Manila, Philippines. He builds production software with AI agents doing the engineering, and every project number on this site names the file it was read from.
- Full name
- James Lorenz SantosRecords for a "James Lorenz" without "Santos" belong to other people.
- Also known as
- Agent JamesThe handle for this site and this work.
- Based in
- Manila, Philippines, GMT+8
- Current role
- AI Automation Developer, Lift Legal MarketingJan 2026 to present · Remote from Manila, company in Australia
- Education
- BS Information TechnologyUniversity of Santo Tomas, 2021 to 2025
- GitHub
- github.com/jamessuuu
- JobStreet
- ph.jobstreet.com
The record, in full
- 2026 onward
Side projects and experiments
What is being built nowManila
Agent systems, and the tools that make one engineer ship like a team. Labelled as in progress, because that is what it is.
- Klik: a swipe to match hiring app, live on Cloudflare Workers and D1, invite gated while the waitlist fills
- An operations platform for a working business: purchase orders, stock takes and approvals
- This console: one command engine driving a typed terminal, clickable chips and server rendered HTML
- A live SEO and AI readability audit that runs against any URL, in progress
- Ongoing
Independent AI consulting, alongside the roles above
FreelanceRemote from Manila
Direct client work alongside the roles above. Increasingly the AI feature itself and the system around it, rather than general build work. Clients are described rather than named.
- A dental clinic: a marketing agent plugin and a control platform for marketing and operations
- An apparel startup: AI design generation and visual similarity search
- A construction contractor: bid preparation turned into a repeatable Claude Projects pipeline
- A Philippine business: an operations platform with scope gated MCP tools
- May 2026
AI and Automation Developer (contract)
AldridgeRemote from Manila, company in the United States
Building the AI practice at a US managed service provider, across internal operations and client service delivery.
- Copilot and Copilot Studio workflows alongside custom agents on the Claude API and MCP
- ConnectWise Automate on the RMM side, ConnectWise Manage, Neo and Thread on the PSA side
- AI enablement across the org: reusable agent patterns and onboarding so non specialists could use it safely
- Jan 2026 to present
AI Automation Developer
Lift Legal MarketingRemote from Manila, company in Australia
Current role. AI integration for legal marketing workflows, working GMT+8 against AEST.
- AI automation for a law firm marketing agency's build and content workflows
- Remote from Manila, working GMT+8 against AEST
- Jul 2025 to Dec 2025
Software Engineer
Kredit HeroBGC, Taguig, Philippines
Full stack engineer on an AI credit application.
- A Singapore founded company operating in both Singapore and the Philippines
- Stack: React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Claude API
- Jan 2025 to Jun 2025
Full Stack Applications Developer (intern)
eBiZolutionMakati, Philippines
First professional codebase. Frontend work with React and Tailwind, plus the API and database layer behind it.
- Frontend built with React.js and Tailwind CSS
- REST API integrations with third party services
- PostgreSQL queries optimized for performance
- Redesigned the company website, ebizolution.com
- 2021 to 2025
BS Information Technology
University of Santo TomasEspaña Blvd, Sampaloc, Manila
Four years of IT at UST, BS Information Technology, class of 2025.
- BS Information Technology, class of 2025
- Capstone: UST CICS Alumni Connect, a web based graduate career tracer
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