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Small by design. Serious about the work.

ConduitCode Labs is a Philippines-based, founder-led development brand focused on production-ready websites, e-commerce, custom applications, integrations, and the technical work that keeps digital products useful over time.

Wayne Pastoral, founder and full-stack developer at ConduitCode Labs
Wayne PastoralFounder / Full-Stack Developer
Model
Independent / founder-led
Base
Philippines
Direction
Growing into a broader engineering studio

The work

Built from years inside real production work.

I work across business websites, Shopify and WordPress development, commerce, web and mobile applications, APIs, integrations, automation, technical SEO, accessibility, and performance optimization, especially where customer experience and day-to-day operations meet.

ConduitCode Labs started as a way to bring my work, the lessons behind it, case studies, and future ideas under one focused brand. I enjoy building useful things, improving existing systems, and doing work worth sharing, whether that means solving real problems or passing useful knowledge forward to developers who come next.

Working independently keeps communication direct. For larger or more specialized projects, I collaborate with a small trusted group, each bringing their own strengths across development, technical design, creative work, and operations. ConduitCode Labs gives that work a shared home and standard, with everything coordinated through one delivery process.

CMS platforms, site builders, commerce systems, custom frameworks, and application technologies are all part of the toolkit. The engineering principles came first. The technology follows the problem, the people who will maintain it, and the work the system needs to support.

Stack & specialties

  • JavaScript / TypeScript
  • React / Next.js
  • Vue
  • PHP / Laravel
  • Shopify
  • WordPress
  • Node.js / Express
  • MySQL / PostgreSQL
  • REST APIs
  • Front-End Development
  • Back-End Development
  • Mobile Development
  • Core Web Vitals
  • Technical SEO
  • GA4 / Analytics
  • CRO
  • Client Communication
  • Technical Project Management
  • Technical Leadership
  • Stakeholder Management
Work with ConduitCode Labs

Team

People behind and around the work.

Conduit brings together independent developers and technical collaborators with complementary strengths. Each person focuses on the work they know best, with a shared standard for thoughtful engineering, reliable delivery, and attention to detail. We enjoy the work, care about the craft, and build things we are proud to put our names on.

Portrait representing Raven Castro of Kofii Studio01

Co-Founder / Partner / Full Stack Developer / Technical & Design

Raven Castro

Co-founder and partner supporting full stack development, technical implementation, UI/UX, and visual design across ConduitCode Labs projects through Kofii Studio.

  • JavaScript / TypeScript
  • React / Next.js
  • Vue
  • PHP / Laravel
  • Node.js / Express
  • Shopify
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Co-Founder / Finance & Administration / Full Stack Developer

Jenver Guevarra

Co-founder leading finance and administration, including budgeting, expenses, payments, records, and financial tracking, while also contributing CMS development with a focus on Shopify and WordPress theme and plugin work.

  • Budgeting
  • Expenses
  • Payments
  • Records
  • Financial Tracking
  • CMS Development
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Analyst Programmer / Full Stack Developer

Alexis Santos

Works across front-end and back-end development, contributing implementation, integrations, commerce, CMS, and database work across production web projects.

  • JavaScript
  • React
  • Vue
  • PHP
  • Laravel
  • Shopify
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Front-End & CMS Developer / Project Manager

Charlie Lahorra

Works across front-end development, CMS implementation, API integrations, SEO, and design support for production websites and commerce projects.

  • HTML5 / CSS3
  • JavaScript
  • React
  • PHP
  • Laravel
  • WordPress

Principles

What guides the work.

01

Clarity before activity

Understand the failure, constraint, or opportunity before adding more code.

02

Durability over novelty

Choose tools and patterns that the next person can understand and maintain.

03

Evidence before opinion

Verify the real user path and use the working result to decide what comes next.

Working together

A process with room for judgment.

  1. 01

    Find the real problem

    Clarify the business need, user path, constraints, and what success should look like.

  2. 02

    Reduce the solution

    Choose the smallest sound architecture and remove work that will not improve the outcome.

  3. 03

    Build in reviewable steps

    Ship coherent increments with responsive, accessible, and maintainable implementation.

  4. 04

    Verify the whole path

    Test the actual journey, edge cases, performance, content states, and release behavior.