James Lorenz Santos

Agentic Engineer and AI Automation Developer. Manila, Philippines, GMT+8. Available for new projects, within 24 hours.

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Experience

Full Stack Applications Developer (intern) · eBiZolution · Jan 2025 to Jun 2025 · Makati, Philippines

• ·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

Software Engineer · Kredit Hero · Jul 2025 to Dec 2025 · BGC, Taguig, Philippines

• ·AI powered credit app reached 1,000+ users in its first 30 days
• ·All sprint milestones delivered 15% ahead of schedule
• ·Stack: React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Claude API

AI Automation Developer · Lift Legal Marketing · Jan 2026 to present · Remote from Manila, company in Australia

• ·Law Firm Builder Pro: 20+ agents across a six phase pipeline, cutting a site from weeks of build to 2 to 4 hours
• ·124 automated verification gates behind that output, plus a three rule honesty protocol that catches fabricated gate passes
• ·20+ client platforms running on it, verified at accessibility 100 and PageSpeed 95 to 96 across 274 URLs
• ·Claude Agent Plugin system built in 2 days
• ·Content migration pipelines automated end to end

AI and Automation Developer (contract) · Aldridge · May 2026 · Remote from Manila, company in the United States

• ·Service delivery time cut 30% within three months, using triage agents, connectors and pipelines
• ·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

Independent AI consulting, alongside the roles above · Freelance, across four countries · Ongoing · Remote from Manila

• ·Kelowna Dental Centre, Canada: a marketing agentic plugin and a central control platform for marketing and operations
• ·Apparel startup, New York: AI design generation, refinement and visual similarity search on Gemini and OpenAI
• ·Construction contractor, United States: Claude Projects turning bid preparation into a repeatable pipeline
• ·One Nadela, Philippines: an operations platform built in two days, 24 scope gated MCP tools, 289 tests green
• ·Four markets, four sets of working hours, all from GMT+8

Education

BS Information Technology, University of Santo Tomas, Aug 2021 to Jun 2025. GWA 1.169 on a 1.0 scale.

• ·Summa Cum Laude, Rank 1 in the IT department, Rank 2 overall in the College of Information and Computing Sciences
• ·Capstone: a full stack MERN application taken from requirements gathering through deployment, Top 3 Best Capstone Project
• ·Coursework: full stack (MERN, Laravel, Next.js), software engineering and agile, database design, UI/UX, mobile, systems analysis

University of Santo Tomas Senior High School, STEM, Aug 2019 to Jun 2021, with honors

Honors and awards (6)

Licenses and certifications (14)

Anthropic (6), Cisco Networking Academy (5), Project Management Institute (2), HP LIFE (1). Eight of the fourteen are agentic AI credentials issued between January and June 2026, on top of the Cisco networking track from 2022 to 2024. Several are free introductory courses and are listed as issued, with their real dates, not as professional tiers.

Skills