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21 years building websites.
12 of them for banks.
Pronto Digital Solutions is new. The person building your website is not. I’m Ryan Calderon, and before this I spent over a decade as Senior User Interface Developer at Sandstone Technology, building the internet banking platforms that major banks put in front of their customers.
21 years
Professional experience
12 years
In digital banking
Manila & Sydney
Teams worked with
One person
Brief to launch
Why this exists
A six-week quote for a five-page website
For twelve years my job was making banking software behave. Internet banking is an unforgiving place to learn a craft: every screen has to work on every browser, stay accessible to every customer, survive a security review, and match the designer’s intent to the pixel. Get it wrong and someone can’t pay their bills.
Then I went freelance, and started talking to small businesses here at home. What I found was that a neighbourhood clinic or a family restaurant gets quoted ₱60,000 to ₱150,000 and six to eight weeks — for a five-page website. Not because agencies are dishonest, but because they’re built for corporate clients with committees and legal review.
Meanwhile those businesses stay invisible on Google, and their competitor down the road who spent ₱15,000 gets the phone call.
So Pronto Digital Solutions does one narrow thing well. A focused range of small business websites, built from a completed brief, using twenty-one years of pattern recognition instead of six weeks of discovery meetings. That’s how two working days is possible — not by cutting corners, but by cutting the queue.
How two days is possible
The honest explanation
People assume “fast” means “sloppy”. Here’s exactly where the time goes, and where it doesn’t.
Where the weeks usually go
- Waiting on replies between departments
- Discovery workshops that restate the brief
- Designing from scratch what's been designed before
- Sitting in a queue behind bigger clients
- Endless rounds with no decision-maker present
Where our two days go
- A complete brief before we start, so nothing stalls
- Proven layouts for your industry, tailored to you
- Modern tooling doing the repetitive work
- One project at a time, start to finish
- You review once, on a real preview link
Track record
Where the 21 years went
Not a career pivot into web design. This has been the job since 2005.
October 2025 – present
Freelance Web Developer
Self-employed · Remote worldwide. React single-page apps with Tailwind and Mantine UI against REST APIs — including frontend development on CharlieTalk, a language-tutoring marketplace. Custom WordPress themes built from Figma and PSD with ACF and WooCommerce, no-code builds in Duda, Webflow, Elementor and Framer, and e-commerce stores on OpenCart, Shopify and WooCommerce.
April 2013 – September 2025 · 12 years
Senior User Interface Developer
Sandstone Technology · Digital Banking · Manila / Sydney. Led all UI development for internet banking platforms and acted as UI consultant across the Manila and Sydney teams. Mentored other UI developers on code standards and best practice, customised web and mobile banking applications to client specification, and worked alongside QA to ship accessible cross-browser interfaces.
February 2012 – April 2013
Frontend Developer
RemoteStaff Inc. · remote for Christom Web Design. Converted designs into custom WordPress sites with HTML5, CSS3 and responsive techniques, developed at PHP level, built mobile versions of existing sites, and delivered e-commerce on OpenCart and BigCommerce.
August 2011 – December 2011
Senior Web Designer
CLS International Marketing PTE LTD · Singapore. Designed, built and maintained company websites, produced campaign material for web and print, applied SEO and SEM practice, and built microsites for events and promotions.
October 2009 – July 2011
Senior Web Designer
Arca Solutions Inc. · eDirectory. Hand-coded layouts, splash pages, email campaigns and banner ads from PSD, converting to HTML, CSS, PHP and jQuery with a focus on usability, accessibility and brand standards.
January 2005 – August 2009
Web Graphic Designer
R2X Interactive Inc. · Creative. Designed and built websites, created logos, banners and custom graphics, and managed multiple client sites. Where it started.
What it means for you
Banking habits, applied to your website
Twelve years of building things that aren’t allowed to break leaves you with habits. They come free with your ₱6,900 site.
It works on every device
Banking apps don't get to fail on an old Android in Cebu. Neither does your site. Tested on real screen sizes, not assumed.
Accessible by default
Readable contrast, sensible heading order, labelled forms, keyboard navigation. Banks are audited on this. Your customers benefit from it.
Built with security in mind
SSL, spam-protected forms, current software, real backups. Basic hygiene that a surprising number of cheap sites skip entirely.
Pixel-perfect, then fast
Twelve years of matching designer intent exactly, and of making pages load quickly on connections that aren’t in a Sydney office.
Documented properly
Maintaining component libraries and UI documentation for a decade means you get written handover notes, not a shrug.
You’ll be understood
Years of translating between designers, QA, sales and clients. Explaining things in plain English is the actual skill.
Let's begin
Fifteen minutes now. Online by Thursday.
Tell me about your business and you’ll get a fixed quote and a start date back within a few hours.