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April Bords Nerosa — full-stack developer in Davao. Download queues that retry and back off, REST APIs that hold through a thousand concurrent check-ins, and schemas that don't need rewriting six months later. Fresh off a development internship at Sundo Platform, and finishing a BS in Computer Science.
A higanbana's leaf feeds the bulb all winter and dies before the flower ever opens — the two never meet. Most of what makes a product feel effortless works the same way. This is what sits under mine.
I start by understanding requirements, defining clean API contracts, and planning component architecture before writing anything. As a student I'm constantly practising and folding in industry-standard patterns.
I value mentorship and direct feedback, and use both to sharpen how I write code and how I think about software design.
Adopting modern full-stack patterns to build highly responsive interfaces.
Writing clean, modular, and self-documenting codebases.
Leveraging constructive feedback and mentorship to accelerate technical growth.
RecognitionOctober 2025
Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT)
Secured 2nd Runner-Up in the regional round of Hack4Gov 2025 as part of a four-member team. Competed in a CTF-style event tackling real-world government security challenges, with focus on web exploitation, digital forensics, and OSINT.
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RecognitionJune 2026
Quantum Computing Society of the Philippines (QCSP)
Placed 1st Runner-Up with a five-member team, solving CTF-style challenges across quantum computing, cryptography, web exploitation, and OSINT under time pressure.
Sundo Platform's app already existed when I arrived, which is the useful kind of hard: read someone else's schema, match someone else's component patterns, and leave the thing better than you found it.
Jul — Aug 2026
Davao City, PH
Sundo Platform Inc.
Aug 2025 — Jul 2026
Tech Committee Member · UM Student Developer Community
Aug 2025 — Jul 2026
Tech Committee Member · Junior Blockchain Education Consortium of the Philippines — UM Davao
Aug 2024 — Jul 2025
Tech Committee Member · University of Mindanao Enigma
College of Computing Education, University of Mindanao · 10 June 2026 · DPT Auditorium, Davao City
Industry Integration — Software Quality Assurance in Modern Practice
University of Mindanao
Software Development — Git, GitHub & JavaScript Workshop
University of Mindanao
A desktop and web manga reader, an attendance system that ran a university-wide event, an e-commerce platform, and a job board. Open any entry for the architecture and what went wrong first.
彼岸 is the far bank — the shore on the other side. Crossing it only takes an email. I read every one, and I answer the ones about building things.
Open to internships, junior full-stack roles, and project collaborations. If you have a brief, send it — if you only have a problem, send that instead.
Status
Away — replies next business day
© 2026 April Bords M. Nerosa
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