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Building the future,
one product at a time.

I'm Gabe Lalasava — full-stack developer & founder with 20+ years shipping AI-powered SaaS, real-time platforms, and mobile apps from zero to production.

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San Diego, CA
20+ years experience
Founder × 4

About

Developer, founder, builder.

I build real-time, AI-augmented web and mobile applications with a focus on developer experience and product quality. I've led cross-functional teams, founded companies, and shipped products used by tens of thousands of users.

My current work centers on AI-powered business tools, productivity platforms, and collaborative software. I'm experienced in augmenting teams with AI for development, testing, deployment, documentation, and end-to-end automation.

Comfortable across the entire stack — from React and React Native on the frontend, to Node.js and Python on the backend, to deploying on AWS, GCP, and Cloudflare.

20+
Years Dev
10+
Years React
12+
Years Node
129
GitHub Repos

Projects

Things I've built.

Products I've founded, led development on, or made significant contributions to.

S
Founder

SendHub.ai

AI-powered WhatsApp messaging platform for businesses. Unified inbox with AI auto-replies, team collaboration, Shopify integration, and multi-tenant support via WhatsApp Business API and Matrix bridge.

React
Hono
CF Workers
Supabase
Gemini AI
MCP
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T
Founder · Lead

Hardroad

Cloud-based SaaS daily action planner for personal and business productivity. Real-time sync across devices via MQTT, offline-first architecture, relational model integrity from UI to database, and AI-powered coaching.

React
React Native
MobX
Fastify
MQTT
Swift
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O
Founder

Offmode.ai

AI-powered collaborative workspace and knowledge management. Real-time editing with Yjs, vector search, role-based access, and AI chat assistance.

Next.js
Yjs
pgvector
OpenAI
offmode.ai →
N
Founder

NoteOn.space

Live team notes with AI knowledge base. Rich editing with BlockNote, Excalidraw drawing, real-time collaboration via WebRTC, and Stripe billing.

Next.js
BlockNote
Excalidraw
PartyKit
noteon.space →
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Open Source

Seedess

P2P 4K video streaming on BitTorrent. WebTorrent optimizations, DLNA/UPnP Smart TV casting, service worker delivery, and React video player.

WebTorrent
BitTorrent
DLNA
React
seedess.com → GitHub →
N
2024

Nexai

Conversational AI platform for live support with developer chatbot API. Fastest known in-browser semantic search using FlexSearch + semantic cache.

LangChain
Socket.io
TensorFlow.js
Redis
F
2017

Factmata

AI fact-checking Chrome extension that validates statistical accuracy of claims on webpages using NLP. React frontend with Python + HUG API backend.

React
Python
NLP
Chrome Ext
H
2018

Hectare / SellMyLivestock

React Native marketplace for Europe's #1 online livestock platform. Algolia-powered semantic search serving ~65K farmers on iOS and Android.

React Native
Algolia
iOS
Android

Skills

Tech I work with.

Frontend

React
React Native
Next.js
TypeScript
Tailwind
MobX
Astro
Angular
Electron

Backend

Node.js
Python
PHP
Hono
Fastify
REST
MQTT
WebSockets
Prisma

AI / ML

LLMs
RAG
Semantic Search
LangChain
NLP
pgvector
Claude
OpenAI
Gemini

Infra

AWS
GCP
Cloudflare
Docker
Redis
PostgreSQL
Supabase
MongoDB

Experience

Where I've worked.

Sep 2018 – Present

Lead React, React-Native, Node.js Developer

Hardroad · San Diego, CA

  • •Cross-functional team lead for a cloud-based SaaS productivity platform
  • •Built real-time E2E reactive architecture with MobX, MQTT, and Redis
  • •Developed novel relational integrity framework from API to UI using Prisma + ZenStack
  • •Automated deployment and scaling on Google Cloud Run
May 2024 – Jun 2024

Conversational AI Developer

Nexai · Remote

  • •Built AI chat platform with LLM, semantic search, and RAG for live support
  • •Achieved fastest known in-browser semantic search using FlexSearch + semantic cache
Jun 2018 – Sep 2018

React-Native Mobile Developer

Hectare · Remote

  • •Developed React Native marketplace for Europe's #1 livestock platform
  • •Semantic search with Algolia, serving ~65K farmers on iOS and Android
Feb 2016 – Mar 2018

Mentor — Angular, React & Node.js

Thinkful · Miami, FL

Mentoring developers on full-stack web technologies including Node.js, Angular, React, and JavaScript fundamentals.

Jan 2014 – Dec 2015

Principal Angular UI Developer

HP · Florida

  • •Redeveloped the UI of HP's TorQue Cloud Server Automation Software
  • •Built with Angular.js, Node.js, jQuery, Bootstrap, LESS, and CoffeeScript
Jun 2011 – Nov 2011

PHP Developer

Walt Disney Internet Group · Orlando, FL

  • •E-commerce development for disney.com with Zend Framework
  • •BDD methodology, PHPUnit 98% coverage, JBehave/Selenium testing
Jan 2010 – Jul 2010

Lead PHP Developer

Brilliance, LLC · West Palm Beach, FL

  • •Multi-server e-commerce platform with 70,000+ products
  • •Apache Solr faceted search and diamond recommendation algorithms
Jan 2003 – Dec 2010

Founder & PHP Developer

Fiji Web Design · Florida

  • •Founded web agency — US GlobalChange.gov, Formula1 Corporate, and more
  • •Commercial & open-source Joomla products, IM systems, geocoding
  • •Server deployment, custom JS/PHP frameworks, SOAP/REST integrations

Contact

Let's build something together.

Got a project in mind? I'd love to hear about it.

Email
gabe@fijiwebdesign.com
LinkedIn
in/bucabay
GitHub
fijiwebdesign
GitHub Org
seedess
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