Gathrean Dela Cruz

Gathrean Dela Cruz, 25

Software Developer

I am a software developer with a passion for building reliable productivity apps. I like tech, finance, music, and arts.

iOS & web developer making tools I'd actually want to use. Vancouver, BC.

Currently building Tarsier
Lately onGitHub
617 contributionslast 3 months · 2026last 2 months · 2026

Gathrean's Work Portfolio

Tarsier

Tarsier

Learning Tagalog

2026-presentMobile App

“A Tagalog learning app built around how the language actually works. Lessons cover root words, affixes, verb focus, ang/ng/sa markers, and the Taglish you’d actually hear in everyday conversation.”

I wrote every quiz, coded the app in Swift, and drew the mascot and icons in Affinity Designer. Gemini Nano Banana generated supporting characters and scenes, with Claude Code helping speed up development.

Nebula

Nebula

Convolutional Neural Network

2024AI Research

Recognizing multiple musical instruments in music and audio recordings. Achieved a 56% F1-score processing mel-spectrograms from the OpenMIC-2018 dataset. Presented at WSAI 2024 in Guangzhou and AIM 2024 in San Francisco.

CareLink

CareLink

Counselor Matching App

2024Hackathon

An online platform for BCIT students to find the right counselor through AI-powered matchmaking and real-time messaging.

DungeonQuad

DungeonQuad

Java Bullet-Hell Game

2023Game

Survive waves of enemies in an endless dungeon with bullet-hell mechanics and occasional flight aids. Built core game mechanics and designed all in-game visuals including sprites, UI, menus, and background art.

SHG Mechanical

Mechanical Contracting Company

2026-presentFreelance

Designing, building, and maintaining the website for a British Columbia mechanical contracting company. Built with Next.js 15, React 19, TypeScript, and Tailwind, deployed on Vercel. Statically generated for speed and SEO, with custom OG images, sitemap, robots, and JSON-LD. Also managing DNS through Namecheap, a custom-domain professional email setup, and ongoing SEO improvements.

Eanternet

Eanternet

Artist Website

2025-presentWebsite

My personal artist site at eanternet.com, built to anchor marketing campaigns and merchandise drops. Features a complete discography of 8 releases, a Wikipedia-style about page, and a shop.

Logo designed by hand. Built with Next.js, React, Sanity CMS, Supabase, and Tailwind.

YapPad

YapPad

AI-Powered Interactive Story Generator

2024Web App

Web-based interactive story generator built with AI assistance.

OrcaSwipe

OrcaSwipe

Tinder-Style Event Finder

2023Web App

Social media app for discovering nearby group events. Contributed 15K+ lines of code, led UI/UX design with Node.js, Express.js, and EJS. Won Best UI/UX Design and Best Teamwork at BCIT.

gathrean.com

gathrean.com

Personal Portfolio

2022-presentWebsite

My personal portfolio at gathrean.com. Originally built with Create React App in 2022, migrated to Next.js 15 App Router in 2026 to get SSR, per-route metadata, JSON-LD, and an optimized image pipeline that CRA couldn't support. Single-page anchor nav, custom typography (Inter + Instrument Serif), and live weather/clock widgets. Deployed on Vercel.

Gathrean's Research & Presentations

AIM 2024

Artificial Intelligence Conference

June 9–11, 2024In-person · San Francisco, USA

Presented our research paper on Multi-Instrument Recognition Neural Networks as a poster to professors and authors from top universities, including UCLA and UC Berkeley.

Networked with leading researchers and industry professionals. Research paper published by AIM by the end of the year.

WSAI 2024

人工智能专题讨论会

June 7–9, 2024Virtual · Guangzhou, China

Represented BCIT and presented our group’s research on a Multi-Instrument Recognition Neural Network. Awarded "Excellent Oral Presentation" for our contributions.

Research paper published by IEEE and added to IEEE Xplore on January 7, 2025.

About Me

Gathrean

(/ˈɡɑːθriɪn/ • GAH-three-yin)

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a creative, a builder, an optimizer

To me, good software should feel invisible;
Present when you need it, out of the way when you don't.

Tech. Music. Art.
I find myself gravitating towards projects where form meets function, regardless of its medium.

Always learning,
always building,
always asking 'how could this be better?'

The future is constantly now.

Jasper 2023
Jasper, Canada 2023
Fireworks 2024
Vancouver, Canada 2024
Islands 2025
Hundred Islands, Philippines 2025
Desk setup
My home

Experience

ResumeLast updated October 2024
OngoingFreelance & Mobile Developer
2025Freelance
2024BCIT Graduate

Academia

Computer Systems Technology, Diploma

British Columbia Institute of Technology

September 2022 - June 2024

Graduated with Distinction, hands-on training in software development, networking, and systems design.

Completed projects in full-stack development, mobile app development, and cloud computing, using languages such as Java, C, C++, and C#.

Developed strong collaboration and problem-solving skills through team-based and real-world technical challenges, simulating professional environments.

More info about BCIT CST Diploma