Jariel Balberona Staff-Level AI-Native Software Engineer

Work

Selected evidence across product ownership, platform engineering, and production delivery.

Ordr.now is the anchor case study. Earlier work is kept concise and bounded to responsibilities I can personally attribute.

Founder-led product

Ordr.now

Oct 2025 - Present

Founder & CTO | Staff AI-Native Software Engineer

Multi-tenant hospitality platform built around offline-first operations, connected venue workflows, and end-to-end product ownership.

Problem

A hospitality platform has to remain useful through unreliable connectivity, shared operational devices, live service pressure, and coordination across venue workflows.

Capability demonstrated

Ordr.now provides one owned product context in which architecture, operational behavior, delivery systems, and AI-native engineering practices can be evaluated together.

Professional evidence

PRIVV

Feb 2025 - Mar 2026

Senior Software Engineer | Contract

Frontend and product engineering for a capital-project platform with dense planning and financial workflows.

Problem

A mature planning platform needed to evolve while preserving reliability across dense, high-trust user workflows.

Capability demonstrated

The contribution focused on making continued frontend change easier to reason about and verify under existing product constraints.

Professional evidence

DataGPT AI

May 2025 - Nov 2025

Software Engineer | Part-time contract

Product engineering for AI-assisted analytics interfaces where query state, results, and failure behavior had to remain understandable.

Problem

AI-assisted analytics is useful only when users can follow system state and understand the results presented to them.

Capability demonstrated

The contribution centered on making AI-assisted analytics behavior easier for users to inspect and understand.

Professional evidence

Experience Digital

Mar 2022 - Oct 2024

Senior Software Engineer to DevOps Engineer | Full-time

Full-stack, DevOps, and cloud-platform engineering across product modernization and delivery systems.

Problem

A cross-functional role that expanded from product engineering into delivery infrastructure, observability, and cloud-platform work.

Capability demonstrated

The role established hands-on range across product code, delivery systems, observability, and cloud infrastructure.