I'm Arman Belara, a full-stack generalist who has shipped software for local businesses, international enterprises, and early-stage startups. My edge isn't one framework, it's adaptability: I learn what a team needs and become useful quickly.
Over years, I've worked across local businesses, international organizations, and startups on purpose, rather than staying inside one stack or one type of team. Every move meant a new codebase, new challenges, new constraints, and a new idea of what “done” looks like.
I don't lead with a long list of memorized technical terms. I lead with the ability to read a new system, ask the right questions, and start contributing quickly. That adaptability has been the constant thread through my career, from PHP web apps, to hybrid mobile, to modern React ecosystems, to the Ruby on Rails and NextJS microservices I build today.
I do my best work when I'm involved in the full lifecycle of a feature: gathering requirements, planning it out, and then building it, not just handed a ticket to execute.
This isn't everything I've ever touched. It's what I actually build with day to day, laid out the way a project's manifest would list its dependencies.
My career reads a lot like a commit history. Each era builds on the last, and nothing that worked ever really gets thrown away.
Founding engineer building PayRex, a financial operating system for businesses in the Philippines, helping them accept online payments and simplify their financial operations so they can grow.
Played a key role in developing the payment gateway for Direct Online Banking at PayMongo, a Philippine fintech, handling both backend and frontend work.
Member of the web marketing platform team, building and maintaining the platform under agile methodology — working closely with product owners and scrum masters to deliver features on time, on budget, and to a high bar of quality.
Developed the CRM mobile application for a pest control company, collaborating with a team of mobile developers, UX designers, and backend engineers.
Managed the team overseeing development of in-house applications and maintenance of existing systems across web and mobile. Worked directly with business stakeholders on requirements gathering and planning, and presented finished work at delivery.
Project-based engagement developing the client's in-house Human Resources Information System and Balanced Scorecard monitoring software.
Where it started. Coded, tested, and debugged programs assigned by systems analysts, learning the fundamentals of disciplined software development.
A financial operating system for Philippine businesses — helping them accept online payments and simplify their financial operations. Built from the ground up as one of the founding engineers at Evolut10n Labs.
Payment gateway at PayMongo enabling merchants to accept payments straight from customers' BPI and UBP bank accounts — backend and frontend, shipped to production.
Online platform for Cambridge University Press's authors, built on Concrete5 and integrated with the Konakart e-commerce API and SAP / Oracle data warehouses. Pioneering team member.
I don't wait at the implementation stage. I'm typically part of the conversation from the first requirement.
A couple of notes from managers I've worked directly under.