Bunbuy Marketplace

About the company

Bunbuy Marketplace is a Philippine online marketplace that was still early in its journey when I joined. The team was small and worked in short scrum sprints, and I came in as a part-time Full Stack Engineer to help them ship features faster.

My journey there

This was a short engagement, only a few months, and it overlapped with my full-time role at Viyahe. Because of that, I had to be deliberate with my time. I picked up tickets from the sprint board, worked across both the frontend and the backend, and made sure that what I delivered did not create more work for the rest of the team.

One habit I carried over from my previous roles was testing my own work end to end before opening a pull request. On a small team, a bug that slips through a review costs everyone time, so I treated each feature as done only when I had exercised it the way a user would and the tests covered the important paths. It made reviews quicker and kept regressions low while the sprint cadence stayed the same.

Notable contributions

• Delivered around 10 frontend and backend features as part of a scrum team.
• Tested each feature end to end before review, keeping test coverage at roughly 90% for the work I shipped.

Closing thoughts

Working part-time taught me something that full-time roles rarely do: how to be useful in limited hours. There was no room to wander through the codebase or wait for context to arrive. I had to ask the right questions early, understand the problem quickly, and hand over work that was clearly finished.

It was a brief chapter, but a good reminder that the fundamentals do not change with the size of the engagement. Understand the problem, ship carefully, and leave the codebase in better shape than you found it.