Before joining the provincial government, Atty. Bautista served as legal officer of the Municipal Government of Bayambang in 2017. Later on, he worked as Municipal Administrator until June 2022.

He is a practicing lawyer for more than 10 years. He is a graduate of the University of the Philippines – Manila with a degree of Bachelor of Arts major in Political Science. He also completed the Advance Course Reserve Officers’ Training Corps of the Army Reserve Command (ARESCOM), Philippine Army.

He obtained his Bachelor of Laws and Letters from the University of the Cordilleras and passed the Bar Examinations in 2010.

He was the managing partner of the ACES Law Firm (formerly the A.C. Estrada and Associates), which has offices in the cities of Baguio and Dagupan.

Atty. Bautista also taught Political Law, Civil Law, Business Law and Procedural Law at the University of Baguio College of Law and at the Urdaneta City University College of Law and College of Accountancy and Business Administration.

He was also a regular on-air legal consultant in USATV K-17 Channel Balitaktakan segment “Ikaw at ang Batas”; a regular radio commentator of DZRD Sonshine Radio weekly program “Isyung Legal,” and columnist in the Weekly Guardian.