Reev Santillanhello@reevsan.dev

Reev Santillan

Software engineerbuilds, leads, ships

You’ve awoken something.See what it can do.

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The Craft

Leader & Full-stack Developer — React · FastAPI · WhisperX · Supabase
ReadRight learner profile screen.ReadRight oral-reading recording screen.ReadRight fluency assessment results.

ReadRight

Leader & Full-stack Developer

Oral reading fluency assessment that Filipino Grade 4 learners run themselves, with no stage fright and instant standards-aligned feedback.

  • Speech pipeline built end-to-end: WhisperX transcription scored with librosa and Parselmouth prosody analysis.
  • FastAPI ML service behind a React front, on Supabase Postgres with row-level security.
  • Turns a stressful one-on-one teacher assessment into independent practice at the learner's own pace.

React · FastAPI · WhisperX · Supabase

AI Tech Lead — React · FastAPI · Supabase · Gemini
Readiko adaptive reading session.

Readiko

AI Tech Lead

An AI reading-comprehension coach with adaptive passages, questions, and conversational feedback tuned to each learner.

  • Generates leveled passages and follow-up questions per student with Gemini and OpenAI.
  • Real-time conversational feedback while the student reads and answers.
  • Classroom tools for teachers to assign, manage, and track progress.

React · FastAPI · Supabase · Gemini

Backend Developer — Cardano · Aiken · IPFS · Blockfrost
APeer decentralized publishing landing page.

APeer

Backend Developer

Decentralized academic publishing and peer review on Cardano. Reviewers stake ADA, and contributors earn a native token.

  • On-chain review logic written in Aiken; papers persisted on IPFS.
  • peerA, a native Cardano token, rewards every meaningful contribution.

Cardano · Aiken · IPFS · Blockfrost

Building it was only the beginning.

The Record

Huawei ICT Competition · Computing Track · 2026

Global 1st Prize.

First place in the Computing Track at the global final of Huawei's flagship ICT competition, competing against national champions from around the world.

Huawei ICT Competition · Computing Track · 2026
Reev Santillan and teammates receiving the Huawei ICT Competition Computing Track global final first prize, 2026.

CodeChum National Programming Challenge · 2025

1st Runner-Up.

Placed second overall in a national timed programming challenge, solving algorithms under the clock against competitors from across the country.

CodeChum National Programming Challenge · 2025
Reev Santillan and the CIT-U CCS team holding their certificates after placing first runner-up at the CodeChum National Programming Challenge, 2025.

True momentum is never solitary.

The Leader

Project Manager

Internship · earned as an undergraduate

  • Planning
  • Coordination
  • Unblocking
  • Ran sprint planning and delivery for a team of developers
  • Turned requirements into work each developer could own
  • Tracked delivery risks and cleared blockers before they cost time
  • A calm, unblocked team
  • Shipped on schedule

Team Lead

Software Engineering · course build

  • Scoping
  • Task breakdown
  • Review
  • Turned raw requirements into a complete build plan
  • Matched each task to the teammate best placed to own it
  • Reviewed every piece until the project shipped as one system
  • Delivered the project from requirements to completion

Research Lead

Special Problems · research build

  • Direction
  • Decision-making
  • Built the plan for an open-ended project with no spec
  • Set direction, then revised it as the findings came in
  • Carried an open-ended project through to completion

Now you know what it can do.

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