ML Engineer specializing in multimodal models and large-scale data pipelines; Google Cloud Grant Recipient ($376k in compute)

Technical Skills
Machine Learning: Python, PyTorch, Keras, scikit-learn, TPU, Trainium, Inferentia, RAG, Fine-Tuning
Software Engineering: React, TypeScript, NextJS, NodeJS, Express, Flask, PostgreSQL, Playwright, Docker, Kubernetes
Cloud Engineering: Google Cloud, AWS, Azure, VPS (e.g., Hetzner), NeoCloud (e.g., Nebius), AWS CDK, Terraform, GitHub Actions
Professional Experience
ViableView⁠, Senior Data Engineer
Feb 2026 – Present
  • •Built in-house business-registry scrapers in Python (1M+ records at 200K/​day)
  • •Designed a Python email-enrichment pipeline (1.8M records at 360K/​day)
  • •Achieved 0.86 ROC-AUC with a CatBoost click-through model trained on 60K labeled records.
    • Kollab⁠, Associate Cloud Engineer
    Sep 2025 – Feb 2026
  • •Led an under-30-day patient AI search project for a top Philippine medical center using Google Cloud, AlloyDB, & Vertex AI
  • •Developed 4 cloud-hosted internal tools for employee, tax, facility occupancy, and distributed inventory management
    • TESDA: Technical Education and Skills Development Authority⁠, AI Competency Curriculum Validator (Contract)
    Aug 2025
  • •Contracted as an Academe Expert in the Competency-Based Curriculum in AI Competency Standards
  • •Validated 2 AI and Data Qualifications, impacting the Philippines' technical-vocational education system
    • AI First⁠, AI Engineer Intern
    Dec 2024 – Aug 2025
  • •Built a Python pipeline that enriched 200k+ leads for 7 countries that sponsor work visas, running at zero hosting cost
    • Projects & Research
  • •Co-developed Visual-Qwen using CLIP, Whisper, Q-Former, and Qwen3-4B for multimodal “sludge” video detection.
  • •Achieved 93.4% F1 / 93.5% accuracy on held-out data after training on TPU v4-64 via Google TRC.
  • •Published a 2K-video / 6K-sample multimodal dataset; reached 200+ monthly Kaggle downloads.
  • •Validated the system with 53 participants across ML, content creation, moderation, and data science.
  • •Open-source TypeScript package with peak 1600+ downloads per week on npm
  • •Benchmarked at ~7.2K jobs/​min with near-100% success across tested search configurations.
    • Speaking & Recognition
  • •Presented to 1000+ professionals at Paris, France, alongside global tech leaders like Microsoft, Google, NVIDIA, AMD, and Red Hat
  • •Talk is titled: De-mystifying PyTorch for ASICs: When (and Why) To Move Your Development To AI Accelerators
  • •Granted a fully-sponsored grant to attend the 5-day AWS re:Invent 2025 Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada
  • •Sole Filipino Grant Recipient among the 340 international recipients
    • Dec 2024 – Present
  • •Taught 3000+ students & professionals about AI-driven software engineering
  • •Delivered 25+ conference and community presentations from SOFTCON, AWS, Microsoft, and several Philippine universities
  • •Secured $30k and counting in sponsorships from GitHub, Tavily, and Vercel for educational empowerment in tech in Luzon
    • Certifications
    Education
    BS in Computer Science with specialization in Software Engineering, FEU Institute of Technology⁠
    Aug 2022 – Sep 2026

    4-Year President's Scholar with High Honors; CS Academic Varsity; Leadership Award Recipient

    Languages
    English (Native), Japanese (JLPT N3), Chinese - Mandarin (YCT 2), French (A1), Filipino (Proficient)
    Awards