Riel Joseph Bulaybulay

Experience

1. JAN — JUN 2026

   Full-stack Software Engineer · Cashflowy

   • Built and maintained frontend (React/TypeScript) and backend (Django/Python) systems for a financial management platform serving small businesses with transaction tracking, invoicing, bank connectivity, and financial reporting.
   • Integrated third-party services including Plaid for bank account connectivity and Stripe for payment processing, enabling seamless financial workflows for end users.
   • Implemented automated background workflows with Celery and Redis, and designed type-safe API contracts using Django REST Framework with OpenAPI-generated TypeScript SDKs.

   • React
   • TypeScript
   • Django
   • Python
   • Celery
   • Redis
   • Plaid
   • Stripe
   • PostgreSQL
2. 2024 — 2026

   Senior Software Engineer · Soulbound Inc.

   • Led frontend and backend development for a live-streaming platform with on-chain tipping, prediction markets, and token-gated features — designing UI components, building smart contract integrations, and managing distributed node infrastructure.
   • Led a team of 3 engineers to upgrade codebase packages, restructure file organization, and improve coding practices, reducing feature delivery time.
   • Evaluated and prototyped emerging Web3 protocols for platform integration, balancing adoption risk against user-facing value.

   • React
   • TypeScript
   • Solidity
   • wagmi
   • viem
   • Privy
3. JUN — NOV 2024

   Frontend Engineer · Keyring Network

   • Built frontend for a compliance and identity platform (zero-knowledge verification): redesigned the Rule Builder workflow so compliance teams could assemble granular admission policies in fewer steps, reducing policy-creation friction for new clients.
   • Improved engagement with lightweight, performant micro-interactions that raised perceived responsiveness and reduced drop-off across long, multi-stage form flows.

   • React
   • TypeScript
   • Tailwind CSS
   • wagmi
4. JUN — NOV 2024

   Software Engineer, Trading Systems · Jeeters

   • Built a real-time token-tracking and automated trading system delivered through Telegram, serving hundreds of active users with live monitoring of balances, transactions, and profit/loss on Solana.
   • Implemented automated trade execution across multiple exchanges (DEX and CEX), letting users buy/sell directly from Telegram and reducing manual trading overhead.
   • Engineered cross-platform exchange integrations (Jupiter, Orca, Raydium), unifying decentralized and centralized trading into a single interface.

   • TypeScript
   • Solana
   • Telegram Bot API
   • Jupiter
   • Orca
   • Raydium
5. 2023 — 2024

   Software Engineer · Token Metrics

   • Sole developer of an automated asset-allocation product for an investment research and analytics platform, owning it end-to-end from architecture and frontend to backend and deployment.
   • Led the migration of the legacy Angular codebase to Next.js, improving application load speed by 3x and significantly enhancing both developer and user experience.
   • Established CI/CD from scratch with GitHub Actions for automated deployments, eliminating manual deployment errors and improving website reliability.
   • Optimized database models and backend queries, reducing transaction costs and improving row retrieval efficiency.

   • Next.js
   • TypeScript
   • Angular
   • GitHub Actions
   • Node.js

Skills

Projects

1. 

   Cashflowy

   A financial management platform that helps small businesses track transactions, manage invoicing, connect bank accounts, run financial reports, and stay on top of their books — all in one place.

   • React
   • TypeScript
   • Django
   • Tailwind CSS
   • shadcn
   • Plaid
   • Stripe
   • Celery
   • PostgreSQL
2. 

   Interseed

   Platform for founders to become fund-ready and talents to build their portfolio with the help of funding and jobs opportunities.

   • Next.js
   • Nest.js
   • Tailwind CSS
   • sanity
3. pi-git-worktrees

   Parallel AI agent sessions using git worktrees for Pi coding agent. Spawn multiple agents working on different tasks simultaneously — each in its own isolated git worktree — and orchestrate them from a single main session with live status widgets, tmux floating popups, and full fan-out/wait/gather orchestration.

   • TypeScript
   • tmux
   • Git Worktrees
   • Pi Coding Agent
   • TUI
4. 

   Soulbound TV

   A live-streaming platform with creator monetization, prediction markets, token-gated interactions, and real-time on-chain tipping.

   • wagmi
   • viem
   • privy
   • Solidity
   • ReactJS
   • shadcn
5. 

   Keyring Network

   A compliance and identity verification platform using zero-knowledge proofs — enabling institutions to perform privacy-preserving KYC and transaction screening across both traditional finance and DeFi.

   • ReactJS
   • Tailwind CSS
   • wagmi

Writing

1. 2026-04-22

   Building pi-image-preview: Inline Image Previews with Kitty Graphics in tmux

   How I built a Pi coding agent extension that renders inline image thumbnails using the kitty graphics protocol — with full tmux support via Unicode placeholder characters.

   • typescript
   • terminal
   • kitty
   • tmux
   • open-source
   • pi-coding-agent

2. 2026-04-20

   Building pi-git-worktrees: Parallel AI Agent Sessions with Git Worktrees

   How I built a Pi coding agent extension that spawns multiple AI agents in isolated git worktrees, orchestrated from a single tmux session with live status widgets and floating popups.

   • typescript
   • ai-agents
   • tmux
   • git
   • open-source
   • pi-coding-agent

3. 2026-02-12

   How I Let My QA Tester Run Our Full Stack App Without Any Dev Experience

   A bash script that checks prerequisites, installs missing tools, checks out the right branches, and spins up the entire frontend + backend stack — so non-technical QA testers can test locally with one command.

   • bash
   • devops
   • qa
   • dx
   • docker