John Carl
Santos.

I started coding because I wanted to fix problems I saw around me. Filipino CS/IT students spending hours formatting OJT journals by hand. Students cramming with no good digital study tools. That's where PraktikAI and StudyAI came from — not tutorials, not trends.

There's something that drives me about building for people who don't have enough resources. The Philippines has brilliant developers, but the tooling built for us, by us, is still limited. I want to change that — one shipped product at a time.

I learn by shipping. Not by finishing courses or collecting certificates — I mean actually deploying things, watching them break in production, and fixing them. My StudyAI benchmark work, the RAG retrieval improvements, the SSE streaming optimizations — none of that happened in a classroom.

I care deeply about the full picture: the AI layer, the backend architecture, the DevOps, and the UI. I want to understand why a system behaves the way it does, not just make it work.