Nicole Pascual

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Founder & CEO at Pillar Health · Developer tooling · Rust, community

Pillar Health
Manila, Philippines · PHT (UTC+8)
8+ years experience
INSEAD Singapore
English, Filipino
Hiring
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Overview

Founder of Pillar Health (developer tooling). 14 years of building before that. Raised $38 million across 3 rounds. Took Pillar Health from zero to $9 million ARR. Most at home with open source and supply chain. I write a small newsletter about developer tooling.

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  • Candidates for the role I'm hiring for
  • Early customers and design partners
  • Working sessions on community
  • Second opinions on developer tools decisions
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  • Courses and coaching offers
  • Fundraising consultants

Travels often; replies within 48 hours

Skills
Rustdeveloper toolsproductsupply chaincommunityopen source
HiringHiring for a role
closes in 3 months

Pillar Health is hiring 2 founding engineers in Manila

Role
Founding engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
$152k-$222k + equity
Team
Founding team, 10 people
Start
This quarter
Must have
Production experience with open source Production experience with community Ownership of something end to end
Process
Intro call, technical deep dive, team chat

Comp S$144k-S$230k. Four conversations, no take-home. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Manila, Philippinessupply chaindeveloper toolsrust
Open

Experience

  1. Founder & CEO
    Aug 2025 - Present
    Pillar Health · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Manila, Philippines
    • Raised $24 million across 3 rounds.
    • Grew the team to 34 people across 2 countries.
  2. Senior Engineering Manager
    Sep 2023 - Aug 2025
    Boston Consulting Group · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Manila, Philippines
    • Mentored 15 engineers through their first promotion.
  3. Senior Engineering Manager
    Mar 2022 - Jul 2023
    EY · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Manila, Philippines
    • Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 774ms to 168ms.
  4. Frontend Engineer
    Jul 2020 - Mar 2022
    Westpac · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Manila, Philippines
    • Moved 81% of storage traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  5. Engineering Manager
    Feb 2019 - Jul 2020
    Traveloka · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Manila, Philippines
    • Brought on-call pages for storage down from 29 a week to 1.

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Education

  1. INSEAD Singapore
    MBA, Business Administration
    2015 - 2017
  2. KAIST
    BS, Economics
    2007 - 2011

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