About

We build things guests use.

Rock Solid Digital has designed and operated customer-facing platforms for hospitality and entertainment brands since 2015. Deliberately senior and compact: the people you meet are the people who build and run your platform.

Senior teams. Long-term relationships. Complex platforms.

Founded: 2015
Team: 12+ people
Longest client relationship: 10+ years
Properties powered: 80+

How we work

A partner that operates, not a vendor that delivers.

Senior by design

Small on purpose. You work directly with the product, design and engineering leads who make the decisions — no account layer between you and the work.

We operate what we build

Releases, monitoring, new properties, new integrations, PMS migrations — year after year. Platforms we launched in 2015 are still ours to run.

Direct answers

If something will take longer, we say so. If we don’t know, we find out. When something breaks, we own it and fix it fast.

The team

The people who build and run the platforms.

12+ people · Manila, Bali, Hong Kong

Michiel Waaijer

Founder · product & strategy

Founded RSD in 2015 after agency years in Hong Kong. Leads strategy, UX and senior client relationships — and still ships the occasional tool himself.

Adrian Cando

Lead engineer · mobile & AI

Leads mobile and AI — React Native apps for cinemas and ski resorts, among others. Also leads Agentic Commerce development for hotels; MCP, UCP and other protocols.

Rowel Gutierrez

Lead engineer · integrations & architecture

Leads our hospitality integrations — booking engines, loyalty and PMS platforms in production — and shapes the architecture, DevOps and cloud infrastructure underneath them.

Vikko Taruc

Senior project manager

Runs delivery — intake, release cycles and the weekly cadence with client digital and technology teams.

Daryl Magos

Senior designer

Owns UI design across every brand we work with — Figma design systems, style guides and lifecycle email.

Michael Fernandez

UI engineer

Brings interfaces to life — layout, animation and interaction quality across web, booking and app surfaces.

Aleks Daloso

Engineer · booking & integrations

Backend engineering for booking engines, APIs and third-party integrations — including the first direct cloud PMS launch.

Marco Manigbas

Senior QA

Tests every release across devices and journeys before it reaches a guest — methodical and diligent on every task.

Axle Rodriguez

Web engineer

Front-end and WordPress engineering across multi-site platforms — component libraries, templates and release work.

Jovani Warguez

Web engineer

Full-stack web engineering on large multi-site platforms — new features, third-party integrations and keeping long-running codebases healthy.

Rizza de Oro

Web engineer

Web engineering and lifecycle messaging — WordPress builds, CRM integrations and email templates for client marketing teams.

June Cataquez

Senior QA · automation

Builds and runs the automated test suites behind every release — regression, booking-path and cross-device coverage.

Where we are

Based in Asia-Pacific. Working with clients worldwide.

The team works from Manila and Bali with clients around the world — async by default, overlapping hours where it counts, and on a call when it matters.

HKGHong KongRegistered office

MNLManilaDesign, engineering, QA

DPSBaliFounder, strategy

FAQs

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What does Rock Solid Digital do?

We design, build and run digital platforms for hospitality — websites, booking engines, mobile apps, loyalty, integrations and AI — usually as one connected guest journey rather than separate projects.

Who do you typically work with?

Hotel groups, independent and boutique hotels, ski and mountain resorts, destinations and entertainment brands. Our longest client relationship is over ten years.

Do you only work in hospitality?

Mostly. Hospitality is where our experience, integrations and reusable platform pay off for clients. We take on adjacent work — entertainment, gifting, travel — when the problem looks similar.

How does a project usually start?

With a call about the actual problem, then a short written view on approach, scope and team. From there we usually begin with a discovery and design phase before committing to a full build.

Where is your team based?

Our team works across Hong Kong, Manila and Bali, and we work with clients all over the world.

Want the senior team on your platform?

Tell us what you’re building. You’ll hear back from someone who’d actually work on it.

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