About

Conrad Miguel “Mikko” E. Gozalo is an 20-year-old self-proclaimed geek from the Philippines. He is not your stereotypical geek, he enjoy physical activities more than average geeks do.

Mikko studied for a while at the University of the Philippines Diliman. He finished his high school with high honors at the Philippine Science High School in Davao City, Philippines.

Mikko is currently the Chief Technology Officer and Corporate Secretary of BossChief Inc, the makers of BiliBid. He is also currently working as an emergency staff in UP Open University.

Mikko was once hired by a prominent person in mass media to work for their company and worked there for a while. Back in college, he worked as a student assistant at the Diliman Network (the Metropolian Area Network of UP Diliman). In July to August 2011, he worked for a short-term project with Google as the Speech DataOps Project Manager for Filipino. He has also worked as an intern at the Environmental Conservation and Protection Center way back in high school.

He is proudly affiliated with the University of the Philippines Linux Users’ Group (UnPLUG) where he became the organization’s Trusted Lieutenant for Internal Affairs and Trusted Lieutenant for Special Operations. In this organization he became a free and open source advocate in his own way converting some of his friends to Linux users.

He’s into programming, web development, Android programming and other stuff. He also enjoyed playing with microcontrollers way back in high school. He has participated in programming contests of different scopes ranging from intraschool competitions to international competitions such as the ACM-ICPC.

He was also one of the people who developed the Law Registration System, a multi-item bidding platform for course enlistment of the UP College of Law.

He has developed numerous web applications from simple database lookups, a voting platform for his high school council election, online food ordering system and many more.

If you’re interested in hiring him for a webdev project, just don’t hesitate to contact him through his contact page.

On the other light, he is an athlete-wannabe. His resting heart rate of 46 and body fat percentage of 6.2% say that he is an athlete. Sadly, he doesn’t play a sport regularly. You may want to help him find one, just comment.

He used to swim once a week. There was also a time when he climbed (indoor climbing) almost everyday for a month until he realized it was too costly.

37 Comments

  1. bestech says

    Are you the one who wrote this site? and this “about page”? why you did not used the word I but rather He? It’s seem that other people do so!

    You are lying to your visitor!
    grrr….

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  2. christine jan says

    Well for me, using third person (He) in writing your “about page” is something being humble upon telling about yourself. It helps the author not to sound like an egotist person…But by the way, your web page is great!! I like it..I know you’re the best!!Keep up!!!

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  3. Jamie says

    I don’t think there should be any problems if he uses 1st, or 3rd person. Its just his way of writing. But his profile sure amazed me…
    What are you??? The university’s brain geek??lolz!
    Your too intelligent man!

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  4. Mikko says

    @Jamie: Not really. :D I love hearing those praises. :D

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    • jehzlau says

      wow.. humble! hehehe.. astig ginamit mo na ang WP discussion thread.. ako naka plugin parin.. hehe. :D

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  5. exan says

    hahaha..clever guy! Continue to inspire other people..Nice one!

    exan’s last blog post..Pisces Mood for Today

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  6. Mminrie says

    That is seriously cool. You can do all that by the age of fourteen? You remind me of this eleven-year-old kid who slays trigonometry, along with it 25 sudoku puzzles under an hour and a half.

    Btw, I don’t really think that it is appropriate to use the first person in writing an about page. So for all others who have reacted, I would just like to say that it is all the more proper to write an about page using the third person.

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  7. nafnaf says

    naligaw lang ako dito. pa’comment na lang rin.
    wait, kailangan rin bang mag-english? lol

    *trying hard mode*

    hmm. this is a very interesting blog :) keep it up.

    ayun! nahuman ra gyud.

    nafnaf’s last blog post..how it started …

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  8. Jehzeel Laurente says

    toink! may nagalit pa pala dito sa pag gamit mo ng “He” hahaha. nyok nyok :D

    Jehzeel Laurente’s last blog post..Jehzlau Concepts Evolution

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  9. myphemaster says

    Happy New Year!

    You’ve found yourself a place to inspire other people.You are young, intelligent and creative. Use your talent for the good. More power!

    myphemaster’s last blog post..Happy New Year 2009

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  10. joseph says

    heheeh… at sadyang mapang api si bestech … hayaan nalang .. :D

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  11. Josephine says

    men, angaling mo nman. pisay tas UP? naks. *applauds*

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  12. Enidan says

    ,just dropped by ‘coz of the 2009 upcat results..I’m surprised that you’re just a frshmn and yet,u r amazing. I’m also a CS major,frshmn at uplb, but hey! you are great!*bow* I’m not even close to what you know about computers I guess,cs is not the place where i belong.hehe…well.keep it up.Ü

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  13. rj says

    oppsss.. i’m supposed to search about upcat 2009 results..
    i don’t know how i got here.. lol

    btw, i like your blog.. it seems that u’r so smart..hmm
    i have read that u’r from philsci.. wow, i took
    an entrace exam there but unfortunately hadn’t got
    the opportunity to pass..hehe well, keep it up dude!!

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  14. Mikko says

    @Mminrie:
    Honestly, I can’t finish a hard Sudoku puzzle. Thanks for supporting my third-person writing scheme.

    @nafnaf:
    I’m so so flattered. Maybe, I’m really that good that people are flattering me. Kidding!

    @Jehzeel Laurente:
    They can’t do anything though, this is my blog. I rule this BLOG!!

    @myphemaster:
    Strike two. You are flattering me like hell!

    @joseph:
    Yeah, he is so mapang-api. Let us **************** him. You fill in the *******.

    @Josephine:
    No comment. Wahehehehe.

    @Enidan:
    I want to know you more. I love meeting CS students.

    @rj:
    I’ll keep it UP!!

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  15. siraniks says

    Galing mo! ituloy mo lang keep it up!

    siraniks’s last blog post..DB’s Naruto Shippuuden 92 is a troll

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  16. aise jane says

    whoohhhoooooh,….wow so proud of u mik.
    spread the blood of westlian people..heheheh

    dadiangas west dadiangas west, for me u are the best…grhhhhh

    hehehehe, kip ur feet stepback on The ground..

    be grateful..GBU

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  17. daniel john florence says

    hi po kuya! uhm, mg ask lng po sana aku kung paano mg.arrange ng css sa website? huhuuhuhu…hirap kasi eh. kakainggit ng site mo. tnx

    -daniel

    daniel john florence’s last blog post..Poverty..What is it? (infos)

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  18. Froilan Bulaong says

    Hi Conrad, keep it up, as early as now, we are proud of you as well as the whole Clan (Alam mo na yon, shows in my name hehe

    Froilan Bulaong’s last blog post..Palawan’s Underground River One Step Ahead to New 7 Wonders

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  19. Niko says

    Hehe,I agree with the 3rd person thing,hehehe.I remember that our teachers in highschool told us to write our yearbook write-ups that way,and I’m pretty sure that it’s the same thing :P .

    Anyway,beautiful site,love the color combinations by the way ,and I’m impressed with your english!Hehe,well,thank you for the information and the great read! I hope to pass by here often…and sorry that this is waaay too long :P .

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  20. Ayei says

    wahahahah nacurious me friend pala kita sa plurk wakoko nice meeting you dude, your so intelligent idol^^, anyway ahaha uu nga may nagagalit pala sa pagamit ng *he*, but I was amazed on how you introduce yourself on your visitors *good job!*

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  21. Pringdeeh says

    Was bloghopping while taking a break from work :) nice site! I’ll follow your blog (if you dont mind!). I might learn a thing or two from you :P

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  22. crazyinday says

    hi mikko..thanks sa pag allow nimo ibilin ako link sa ufc 96 ha.. nakakuha ko traffic from you blog kaso ako income kay $16 ra..heheh..gamay au.. anyway, thank you so much..

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  23. lorie says

    Truly that ur intelligent! at a young age you are doing a great part on the field that you selected, wow amazing! I do love writing too and create poems but I don’t have any idea how to hve my own blogging section, would u mind to share some tips. I simply give my e-mail ad and I appreciated your well response. Thanks

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  24. ice_is_cool says

    Hi there! I was surfing my way around and found your blog. Let me describe it in one word: KEWL! Guess what, we seem to have things in common (I’m a geek myself, I’m a developer, PIC programmer, among other things), but I believe there is more in store for a brilliant guy like you specially at your age. Keep it up man, let’s share some thoughts one of these days…

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  25. vinceph tan says

    …!!!!! wow….

    you’re clever huh. .////

    God bless. . . . .

    :-00

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  26. der says

    Bestech,

    That’s the way how to write about yourself. It should be “3rd person” so that reader may feel the writer is not “MAHANGIN” or “NAGABUHAT NG SARILING BANGKO” Ganun kaya tama si Conrad. Don’t criticize but LOVE IT instead.

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  27. wanderangel says

    Grabeness, you’re a genius :D
    Sana kapatid kita para papaturo ako sau haha, pero ako ang ate :p
    I am having a hard time embracing the geek life. I am an accounting grad turned geek because of my job experiences, however the backend of all the apps we’re handling now seems diificult for me. Ugh. Thanks for the inspiration bro.

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  28. zyeLaine says

    weeee but aq npunta d2…

    galing ha…

    2loy nyo lng poh..

    ^_^

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  29. miss Anne says

    mikko …

    so proud of you!

    miss anne

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  30. Shirley Cynthia says

    I just love the guys above who simply talk without think. Do you even read the post?

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  31. Smokey says

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  32. ralph says

    wow nice one! IT 114 grade 1.00 and IT122 grade 1.00,GE14N grade 1.75,IT121 grade 2.25 ako

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  33. whiel2001anne says

    thank you very much for the post…

    i was able to know that my little brother didn’t pass.

    your blogsite is so useful since pshs is having a hardtime updating their site.

    thanks and more power!!!!

    p.s.

    is martin ur better bro? i’m his loving adviser. nyahahahahaa!!!!

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    • Mikko says

      Yep, Martin is my brother.

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  34. Christian says

    wow! i am really amazed to those people who do well in their field of interest, just like you..congrats!!

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  35. kadjo says

    Keep it up bro. As a gensan guy, I’m very proud of you. The best is yet to come in gensan.

    Dugang kadasig! :)

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