Startup Events in Pasig

Join us for a MongoDB User Group in Manila 🚀 Come connect with fellow developers, tech enthusiasts, and the curious-minded for an evening exploring the best practices and real-world use cases powering modern apps with MongoDB. Whether you're building your first project or scaling to millions of users, you'll walk away with practical insights, fresh ideas, and a great group of people to swap notes with. Grab a drink, meet the local MongoDB community, and see what's possible when you build with the right database. See you there! Agenda 18.00: Arrival & Networking 18.30: Welcome & Community Updates 18:45: 5 Lessons on Building with Claude for Enterprise by Karen Pabilando, Software Engineer of Amihan 19.00: Build Anything: Hack your Life with MongoDB and Claude 🛠️ 19.30: Pizza, Drinks & Networking 20.30: Event Close Session Details 1) Build Anything: Hack your Life with MongoDB and Claude 🛠️ Seaver Choy, Director of Engineering, First Mate Tecnologies What if you could build bespoke software for your own life as fast as you can describe it? In this session, we’ll explore how pairing Claude's reasoning with MongoDB's flexible document model creates the ultimate "life hacker's stack" for rapid prototyping. We will move past generic "hello world" tutorials and look at how to rapidly ship custom micro-apps to solve highly specific, everyday needs. Whether it's spinning up an interactive live web bracket canvas to track match results for a weekend mixed doubles tennis tournament, or building an entirely new startup idea, you'll see how unstructured data and AI make it possible to build anything you need from day one. Bio: Seaver Choy is a software engineer with a decade of experience and a Director of Engineering at First mate Technologies. When he isn't managing tech projects or leading the MUG Manila community, he's likely out on the tennis court, scuba diving, or tweaking his Claude Code CLI workflows. What you'll walk away with: Zero to One Setup: How to use the Claude