Quezon City, Philippines

Carlos Antonio
Albornoz

Information Technology Officer II
Civil Service Commission

I build the systems behind public service — from national ICT strategy at the office to the AI lab humming at home.

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Policy on one side,
terminals on the other.

I trained in computer science, but my career kept pulling me toward the place where policy meets implementation. At the Department of Health and the Office of Transportation Cooperatives I learned how institutions actually move. At the Department of ICT I worked with the eGov team on development communications — telling the story of digital government and building the communities around it. At the Civil Service Commission I now work on the strategy and systems side: ISSPs, inter-agency coordination, AI adoption, and the slow, satisfying work of making government easier to deal with.

The through line: I would rather build a system that solves a problem permanently than solve the same problem twice. Documentation is a deliverable, not an afterthought. Simplicity wins. And the same curiosity that drafts a strategic plan at the office runs a Proxmox cluster at home.

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Service record

  1. Civil Service Commission current

    Information Technology Officer II

    ICT strategic planning, inter-agency coordination, and AI adoption for the commission that oversees the entire civil service. ISSP development, paperless-transaction policy work, and the occasional ceremonial speech.

  2. Department of ICT

    eGov · Development Communications

    Two years telling the story of national e-government platforms — public speaking, event organizing, ecosystem building, and translating engineering into policy language.

  3. Office of Transportation Cooperatives

    MIS Architect

    Designed and authored the proposal that gave the agency its first permanent IT unit — the full story is in the casework below.

  4. Department of Health

    Early public-sector years

    First tour inside a large government organization — where I learned that public programs run on process, and process can be engineered.

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Casework

Office of Transportation Cooperatives → Department of Budget and Management

A permanent IT division, from scratch

Problem
The agency had no permanent IT organization — no plantilla positions, no continuity, no budget line of its own.
Approach
Authored the complete technical and organizational proposal for a Management Information Systems Unit — staffing structure, functions, and justification — and navigated it through government's strictest regulatory frameworks.
Impact
Definitive approval from the DBM. The agency now has a funded, permanent IT division to carry its digitalization pipeline for decades.

Incheon, South Korea · September 2025

AI governance, at the regional table

Delegate to the Regional Symposium on Effective Governance and AI Transformation — contributing to the dialogue on how civil services across the region should adopt AI: the policy, the ethics, and the infrastructure underneath it all.

Civic tech · in active development

ISSP Editor

Problem
Information Systems Strategic Plans are the foundational ICT documents of every agency — and they are written by hand, in Word, against a moving template.
Approach
A structured editor with a full design system: overview dashboard, sidebar navigation, and section-by-section editors that know the ISSP format.
Impact
A path toward machine-readable strategic plans — and one less reason for agency ICT units to dread planning season.

Next.jsTailwind 4shadcn/ui

Independent build · live, used with friends

KKB — bill splitting, the Filipino way

Problem
Kanya-kanyang bayad is a cultural institution, and generic split apps don't handle the itemized, quantity-scaled, peso-denominated reality of a Filipino group bill.
Approach
Itemized billing algorithms with real-time quantity scaling and careful state handling, wrapped in a social-first flow.
Impact
Deployed and settling real bills in the wild — the best QA team is a barkada with receipts.

Next.jsSupabaseTailwind

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Always building

Hermes

A personal AI operating system: long-term memory, modular skills, safe autonomous execution. Documentation-first — the architecture decision records come before the code.

agentsMCPmemory

UACS Reference Tooling

JSON, SQL, and TypeScript definitions — plus an HTML explorer — for the Unified Accounts Code Structure. Philippine government finance, made machine-readable.

TypeScriptSQL

Calisthenics AI Trainer

Client-side pose tracking with MediaPipe, form coaching from a Groq-hosted model, and a Flask backend thin enough to disappear.

MediaPipeGroqFlask

ESP32-S3 Agentic Badge

A wearable agent on ESP-IDF — hardware for the agent era, small enough to pin to a lanyard.

ESP-IDFembedded

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The lab

A homelab is a public servant's private R&D department. Mine runs local LLMs as daily drivers and doubles as the test bench for everything I later propose at work.

nodehardwareduty
thinkpad-t14Ryzen 7 8840U · 64 GB · 780MProxmox VE 9 · Qwen3-30B via llama.cpp/Vulkan
mac-studioM2 Ultra · 64 GBApple Silicon inference
macbook-proM3 Max · 48 GBmobile inference node
elitedesk-800HP MiniProxmox node
nasSynologystorage · NFS
mac-pro-2009128 GB · RX 580restored classic
fabric10GbE · Tailscale · Cloudflare TunnelLiteLLM routing across all nodes

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Beyond work

Running

Marathon training, 15–20 km a week. The first system I ever rebuilt was myself.

Studio

Logic Pro, vocal chains, and the eternal pursuit of a clean mix.

Desk

Tactile keyboards, proper DACs, and a workspace wired like a small data center.

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