about j.r. ignacio

Hello. I'm j.r. ignacio — husband, girl dad, creative technologist in the Philippines. I came to all of it sideways: started in computer science, switched out when the math wouldn't teach me, and never lost the habit of needing the big picture before the details. That wrong turn sent me into advertising and creative technology instead, building things meant to feel human rather than just functional. I've spent an inordinate amount of time in the years since chasing where code and craft overlap, across Manila and Singapore; these days I lead tech at JHQ and advise The Misfits Camp.

The rest of me is a musician of sorts — four bands' worth of drumming before I retired, and now I'm teaching myself to write and record my own songs, badly and happily, one at a time; I've always cared more about a good lyric than a big chorus. My daughter and I have a running deal that whatever tools she gets, she has to make something with them — mostly she just out-questions me, which is its own kind of education. When I'm not doing that I'm drawing, reading reference books, adding to a mechanical-pencil collection that's quietly gotten out of hand, or staring into space.