
Software Engineer - AMBALONG.DEV
John Alvin Ambalong
Ruby on Rails : Full-Stack Development
Curious by nature, stubborn by habit.
I build real things, ship them, and show up every day to get better.
Currently Building

Pangu Terminal
Resource-optimization platform for Wuthering Waves
Full-stack Rails application that reconciles game progression requirements against player inventory, calculating exact material deficits and detecting synthesis opportunities across 50+ items.
- –Game upgrade paths pull from 10+ overlapping cost tables with no single source of truth, so I built a service layer that queries each table in isolation and keeps the planning logic independently testable
- –The REST API returns a material deficit and its farming source from a single endpoint pair, so clients have everything needed to render a farming view without a second request
- –Inventory edits trigger real-time re-renders of entire synthesis families via Hotwire Turbo Streams; plan output is JSONB-cached so the page reads from cache rather than recomputing on load
- –96%+ service layer test coverage across three planning services — several cost calculation edge cases only turned up once formal tests replaced manual spot-checking
- –Surplus lower-tier materials can be synthesized 3-to-1 into higher tiers, but only if the math accounts for cross-rarity EXP equivalence — the planner reconciles both before marking a plan complete
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About
The person behind the work
Software engineer, early career, graduating June 2026 with an AAS in Software Design from Walla Walla Community College. Currently working in Tech Services at Walla Walla Community College, supporting campus operations and analyzing lab usage data to inform department resource allocation decisions.
I build on the side with the same discipline I bring to work. Pangu Terminal is live in production.
I read, I go to the gym, I show up consistently.
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Available for the Right Opportunity
I'm looking for an engineering role, remote or Washington State.
If you're building something interesting and value someone who builds and delivers, let's talk.
