Bio
Email: gbgarlejo@gmail.com
Hey, welcome to my website. This is not necessarly a resume, but you can also call it that kinda thing. I post a couple of my thoughts and cool projects here and there. I'm a pretty chill guy, come reach out if you have thoughts or just wanna chat.
Hobbies
- I'm getting into reading lately, so if you have any recommednations, I would love to hear them.
- I like to think and I'd like to call myself a thinker, I'm not a philosopher or anything but I do feel like having to always think is a good thing.
- I played basketball my whole life but now that I'm in my 30s, I just like to shoot around
- I love writing code. Even with AI around, I still dig typing out code myself.
- Ocassionally, I do random videos.
- Coffee making. I like to make my own coffee and draw some fancy latter art (I suck btw).
Books
- 2026: Can't hurt me - David Goggins
- 2026: Staff Engineer Will Larson
- 2025: An Elegant puzzlle - Will Larson
- 2025: The Wanting - Luke Burgis
Software Engineering
I've been a software engineer/programmer for about 8 years now. I've worked with a lot of different technologies and frameworks. I started learning to code when It was first introduced in high school, we used Java back then. I didn't understand much of it at first but it felt really good to think about a solution to a problem.
While everyone's (including me) first program is usually the classic "hello world", my first real program was a sari-sari store (a mini convenience store in the Philippines) management system. The program was to calculate wether the customer had enough money to buy the items they wanted to buy. Pretty simple but it was sick to write and think about when I first wrote it.