Luke John S. Taburnal

Backend, Web, & CLI

CS student focused on web development, specifically .NET. Aspiring software engineer.

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About Me

I am a 3rd year Computer Science student at ICI College who loves software engineering! Recently, I won 2nd place in Blitz Programming during the IT Summit 2026.

My focus primarily involves building full-stack web applications using .NET, Astro, and Preact as well as CLI scripts in Bash and PowerShell that automate or solve specific friction points. Currently, I develop using Zed and WSL.

My favorite language is C# because I enjoy type safety and a structured codebase. As a bonus, AI benefits from type definitions, too. I prefer C# over Java or Rust because I find it ergonomic and best for developer velocity.

I leverage AI to increase productivity, while maintaining total ownership of product reliability.

I am an advocate of free and open-source software and actively studying to be able to contribute soon. My goal is to build a strong foundation and prepare for software engineering roles.

Outside of tech, I'm a fan of information serendipity and regularly diving into topics such as economics, psychology, and self-optimization.

I use Arch Colemak-DH, btw.

Projects

  • Catering AI Agent preview
    Web App

    Catering AI Agent

    Agentic AI that handles catering inquiries

  • Data Privacy Act RAG preview
    Web App

    Data Privacy Act RAG

    Reasoning AI grounded in Data Privacy Act IRR with citations

  • Taylor Swift Information Management System preview
    TUI App

    Taylor Swift Information Management System

    An information management system about Taylor Swift

  • Windows Forms Coursework preview
    Desktop App

    My WinForms Collection

    A collection of Windows Forms applications

  • Undergraduate Choices preview
    TUI App (Game)

    Undergraduate Decisions

    A Choose Your Own Adventure game set from the eyes of a college student, plus implementation of some data structures

  • WSL Name Changer preview
    Utility Script

    WSL Name Changer

    PowerShell script to easily rename a user in Windows Subsystem for Linux

  • Dirt Incremental preview
    Web App (Game)

    Dirt Incremental

    An incremental game about dirt

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Skills

Backend, Testing & Databases

  • C#
  • ASP.NET Core
  • Entity Framework Core
  • xUnit
  • PostgreSQL
  • SQLite

Infrastructure & Tooling

  • Docker
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • PowerShell
  • Bash
  • Linux
  • Ubuntu
  • WSL
  • Zed
  • Visual Studio
  • Visual Studio Code
  • Cloudflare

Frontend Development

  • Astro
  • Preact
  • pnpm
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Tailwind CSS

Desktop

  • Avalonia
  • Windows Forms

Other Languages

  • Rust
  • C/C++
  • Python
  • Java

Currently Learning

  • Vue.js
  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • XAMPP
  • Android Studio (Java & XML)
  • Go

Featured Music

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Now Playing

Neonscapes

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Website ↗ Bandcamp ↗
Genre
Synthwave / Chillwave
Released
Dec 14, 2020
License
CC BY 4.0
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Developer Journey

Year Role Focus
2017 Web Basics Learned HTML and a bit of CSS. Made my first website.
2018 Programming Fundamentals Learned about control flows in C++ (no reference types, thankfully). Made console games in my free time.
2019 Advanced CSS Learned CSS in depth.
2020 Object-Oriented Programming Rite of passage; we used Java and made a Pokemon game.
2021 Data Structures and Algorithms Python and automated test suites gauntlet. Mind you, this was high school; I think I still have trauma from this.
2024 Computer Science enrollment Mostly retook the same old. But it is this year I was introduced to C#.
2025 Locked In Era Learned about desktop app dev and started self-studying software engineering.
Early 2026 Full-Stack Development Deployed my first web apps to the cloud, live. Won in Blitz Programming.
May 2026 - Present CLI tooling and DevOps Moved to WSL and set up modern development environment.

Contact Me

Available for New Projects

Open for full-stack opportunities, open-source collaborations, or general technical discussions.

Location & Timezone
Philippines (UTC+8)
Response Time
Within 24–48 hours