Four systems.
Still running.
Each one solved a real operational problem.
They’re in production, used daily —
and the write-ups below say what
was actually hard about building them.
The index
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01 Research information system
SURI
The system of record for the UP Manila Research Grants Administration Office. Replaced fragmented spreadsheets with one platform managing 15,000+ records across multiple offices, each with its own permissions and its own idea of what a “project” means.
Laravel Vue MySQL Read -
02 Controlled-response AI
ARIA
A research assistant that answers only from approved institutional sources — and says it doesn’t know rather than inventing an answer. The hard part wasn’t the model; it was the refusal behaviour.
RAG Laravel Vector search Read -
03 Platform orchestration
RACE
The layer that keeps a university’s separate research systems behaving like one product — shared identity, shared vocabulary, and a single place to reason about what changed and why.
Docker API design Laravel Read -
04 Applications & ticketing
GO-ARAL
Graduate applications and support requests tracked end to end, so nothing depends on remembering which email thread it was in.
Laravel Vue MySQL Read