// hello world

I'm Joseph.
I build Python automation
that saves teams hours.

Web scrapers, RPA bots, API pipelines, and system-level tools. I turn repetitive work into background jobs you forget exist.

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10+years in IT
50+automations shipped
18projects on display

01 / about

A bit about me

I'm a Python automation engineer with 10+ years in IT. My work runs quietly in the background: scrapers refreshing dashboards every few hours, bots reconciling finance reports at 2 AM, and pipelines keeping BigQuery, Google Sheets, and Slack in sync so nobody has to do it by hand.

I specialize in the messy problems that don't fit a tidy SaaS box: 2FA login flows, anti-bot evasion, flaky third-party APIs, and lately AI systems, from local RAG assistants to a natural-language-to-SQL chatbot running in production.

Before going full-time into automation I spent 6+ years in enterprise IT infrastructure, so I'm as comfortable with Active Directory, networking, and hardware as I am with Python. Teams know me for flexibility, fast turnaround, and impeccable follow-up: the "never say no" person who owns a problem until it's solved.

Currently exploring: Local LLMs (Ollama) LangGraph agents MCP servers 

class Joseph:
    role     = "Automation Engineer"
    stack    = ["Python", "Flask", "FastAPI",
                "Selenium", "Scrapy", "BigQuery"]
    loves    = "fixing things at 2am"
    location = "Philippines" # remote-friendly

    def solve(self, problem):
        return "automated"

02 / projects

Featured projects

local-ai · 100% offline

❯ ask "what does the Q3 contract say about renewals?"

⠸ searching 1,240 chunks · bge embeddings · ChromaDB

Auto-renews unless cancelled 60 days before term end
(contract_q3.pdf, p. 14)

qwen2.5:7b · local · 0 cloud calls

Project 01

Local AI Assistant: Private RAG

A fully local, privacy-first AI assistant that indexes personal PDFs and answers questions over them with zero cloud calls. Modular pipeline: PyMuPDF ingestion, BGE embeddings, ChromaDB vector store, LangGraph agent over Ollama, plus 4 custom MCP servers (RAG, persistent memory, web search, model routing) that plug straight into Claude Code.

  • Python
  • Ollama
  • LangGraph
  • ChromaDB
  • MCP
  • sentence-transformers
GitHub
strategylab · backtest #42 ✓

Project 02

StrategyLab: Trading Backtest Platform

Full-stack platform for building and backtesting trading strategies with a visual node-based strategy builder. Async FastAPI backend with JWT auth, Celery + Redis job queue, Postgres + MongoDB persistence, and a React 19 frontend with financial charting, fully Dockerized behind nginx.

  • FastAPI
  • React 19
  • TypeScript
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis + Celery
  • Docker
GitHub
watchdog · localhost:47564

Project 03

AI Script Watchdog

A background supervisor that watches every scheduled Python script on the machine and has headless Claude review each run: did it finish, are the outputs valid, why did it fail, all in plain English. Auto-discovers unregistered scripts by watching processes, raises Windows toast alerts, caps daily AI spend, and serves a live status dashboard.

  • Python
  • Claude Code (headless)
  • Toast API
  • HTTP dashboard
GitHub
job-board · 8 sources · auto-refreshed
remote
freelance
full-time

Project 04

Multi-Source Job Board Aggregator

A Flask web app powered by 8 custom spiders that scrape OnlineJobs.ph, RemoteOK, Freelancer, Indeed, Hubstaff, Guru, PeoplePerHour, and WeWorkRemotely. Auto-updates every few hours on a schedule and pushes fresh data to git. Public via Cloudflare Tunnel.

  • Python
  • Flask
  • Scrapy
  • BeautifulSoup
  • Cloudflare Tunnel
GitHub
commission-sync · scheduled run

❯ run commission_sync.py

fetching PartnerStack reports · 2FA code auto-read from Gmail

1,482 rows reconciled → BigQuery · QuickBooks export done

finished in 4m 12s · saves ~10 hrs/week

Project 05

PartnerStack & QuickBooks Commission Automation

Pulls partner transactions, commission reports, and lead data from PartnerStack and QuickBooks using a hybrid of REST APIs, Selenium, and Gmail OAuth (for auto-fetching 2FA codes). Replaces ~10 hours/week of manual finance work with a single scheduled script.

  • Python
  • Selenium
  • REST APIs
  • Gmail OAuth
  • Pandas
  • BigQuery
GitHub
wpndatabase.db · watching
messenger
chrome
toast sent ✓

Project 06

Windows Messenger Notifier

System-level utility that hooks into the Windows Push Notification SQLite database to detect Messenger and Chrome notifications, then routes them through a PowerShell toast bridge. Solves a real Windows quirk no off-the-shelf tool fixes.

  • Python
  • PowerShell
  • SQLite (WAL)
  • Windows AUMID
  • Toast API
GitHub

More builds & automations

DigiBot: Chat with BigQuery

Natural-language business questions translated into BigQuery SQL by Claude, executed, and summarized back with AI analysis. Ships as a CLI and a web API with company-restricted Google OAuth.

  • Claude API
  • BigQuery
  • OAuth
  • Docker

AI Skills Suite + Sync Service

~25 production Claude skills powering a YouTube media operation (revenue analyzers, script/title/thumbnail generators, keyword research), backed by a FastAPI transcript-pipeline service on a cloud VM.

  • Claude skills
  • FastAPI
  • BigQuery
  • Supabase
  • systemd

TubeBuddy A/B Test Harvester

Headless Playwright bot that logs in through Google OAuth + TOTP 2FA, scrapes thumbnail split-test results across channels into Google Sheets, and prunes old assets from Drive.

  • Playwright
  • pyotp
  • Sheets API
  • Drive API

YouTube Studio Analytics Harvester

Automated export of per-video views and impressions from YouTube Studio, consolidated into Google Sheets on a schedule, with Slack alerts when a run fails.

  • Selenium
  • Playwright
  • pandas
  • Slack SDK

Self-Hosted MMO Game Server

A complete MU Online private server running locally: OpenMU game and connect servers in Docker with PostgreSQL, plus a custom-rebranded C++/.NET game client and Python tooling for items and packaging.

  • OpenMU (.NET)
  • Docker
  • PostgreSQL
  • C++

Headless-WordPress News Site

A Next.js news site that serves entirely from a local JSON content layer exported from WordPress via REST: fast pages with no live WP backend, plus affiliate link rewriting and sitemap generation.

  • Next.js
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind

Internal Web Portal

A Django portal with a custom accounts app (custom auth backend, email flows, and user models) behind a clean template-driven UI.

  • Django
  • SQLite
  • Custom auth

Computer Vision Lab

Real-time webcam face analysis (emotion, age, gender) with DeepFace, and a hand-tracking mouse that maps MediaPipe landmarks to multi-monitor cursor control through direct Win32 calls.

  • OpenCV
  • DeepFace
  • MediaPipe
  • Win32

BigQuery Ops Toolkit

Utilities that audit every scheduled query in a GCP project, parsing SQL for source/destination tables and reporting to Sheets, plus ETL loaders that push analytics rows from Sheets into BigQuery.

  • google-cloud-bigquery
  • Data Transfer API
  • gspread

Remote Script Trigger

A lightweight Flask + ngrok bridge that exposes local automation scripts as HTTP endpoints, so any job on the machine can be fired remotely with streamed output.

  • Flask
  • ngrok
  • subprocess

Universal Page Scraper Extension

A Manifest V3 Chrome extension that scrapes Facebook groups and arbitrary pages using a network-level interceptor, with a popup UI and JSON export.

  • Chrome MV3
  • JavaScript
  • Interceptor

Thumbnail SERP Analyzer

Pulls a video's thumbnail, compares it against competitor thumbnails from search results using OpenCV image processing, and logs the comparison to Google Sheets.

  • OpenCV
  • NumPy
  • Sheets API

03 / skills

Tech I work with

Languages

  • Python
  • PHP
  • JavaScript
  • VB.NET / C#
  • SQL
  • PowerShell / Bash

Web & APIs

  • Flask
  • FastAPI
  • REST
  • HTML / CSS
  • OAuth 2.0

Scraping & RPA

  • Selenium
  • Scrapy
  • BeautifulSoup
  • Playwright
  • undetected-chromedriver

Data

  • BigQuery
  • Pandas
  • MySQL
  • SQLite
  • PostgreSQL

WordPress & SEO

  • WordPress
  • On/Off-page SEO
  • Keyword research
  • Affiliate marketing
  • PBN link building
  • Hosting & cPanel

IT & Infrastructure

  • Active Directory
  • Computer networking
  • PC hardware & software
  • L1–2 IT support
  • Microsoft Office admin

DevOps

  • Cloudflare Tunnel
  • Cloudflare Pages
  • Docker
  • Render

Tools

  • Git
  • VS Code
  • Claude Code
  • n8n
  • Make / Zapier
  • Adobe Suite
  • Linux / Windows

04 / experience

Professional Experience & Expertise

05
Dec 2022 – Apr 2026

Automation Engineer / Python Developer

Freelance · Remote

End-to-end automation across dozens of production systems: web scraping and browser automation at scale with anti-bot and 2FA flows, deep API integrations (QuickBooks, Xero, YouTube, Meta Ads, ClickUp, Slack, and a dozen affiliate networks), BigQuery data pipelines with automated alerting, FastAPI services deployed on Google Cloud VMs, and AI software development: n8n workflow automation, OpenAI API and custom GPT solutions, LLM chatbots, natural-language-to-SQL tools, and local RAG assistants.

  • Python
  • Scrapy / Playwright
  • BigQuery
  • FastAPI
  • n8n
  • AI / LLM
04
Mar 2022 – Dec 2022

WordPress Off-Page SEO VA

Freelance · Remote

Managed WordPress webpages for off-page SEO: content and image integration, affiliate link creation, interlinking strategy, comprehensive keyword research, PBN link building, and hosting/cPanel management.

  • WordPress
  • Off-page SEO
  • PBN link building
  • cPanel
03
Jan 2022 – Mar 2022

Tasker / Reviewer Annotator

AI training-data platform · Remote

Evaluated and annotated AI training tasks with strict guideline adherence, QA feedback, and high-precision analytical review.

  • AI training data
  • QA review
02
Oct 2015 – Feb 2022

Junior Infrastructure Engineer

Multinational IT services firm · On-site at the country's largest electric utility

Supported executives and every operations department of a major power utility: L1–2 incident and request handling with escalation, software rollout and account provisioning across desktops, laptops, and mobile devices, Microsoft Office configuration, folder permissions, and Active Directory enrollment for new hires.

  • Active Directory
  • L1–2 support
  • Networking
01
May 2015 – Jul 2015

Assistant Programmer

Software development firm · Makati City

Developed modules of an insurance management system for a US-based insurance company: data validations, premium computations, and reporting in VB.NET/C# backed by SQL stored procedures. Also handled database administration including backups and restores.

  • VB.NET / C#
  • SQL
  • Stored procedures

Education

BS in Information Technology

Jose Rizal University

Diploma in Communication Information Technology

Asian Summit College

05 / contact

Let's build something

Have a repetitive task that's eating your week? A scraping project that keeps getting blocked? An AI workflow you want running on your own hardware? I'd love to hear about it.

josephleyco@gmail.com GitHub LinkedIn

📍 Philippines · open to remote roles worldwide