Richard Neil Ilagan is Technical Lead, Solutions Architect, and developer for Hewlett Packard's Microsoft Practice in the Philippines. He specializes in front-end software development for the web, and provides strategic consult for pursuit, software architecture, user experience, and UI design.

He mostly dabbles with .NET and related Microsoft technologies, but is also adept in Javascript/jQuery, HTML5, CSS, PHP, and Wordpress.

He shoots photos, plays the guitar and drums, wastes time on Starcraft, and does freelance work during his loose hours. He writes regularly at Tech+Life+Music.