Data Engineer @ Thinking Machines Data Science Β· Philippines
I build data and AI infrastructure for enterprise clients and startups across financial services, investment management, education, and compliance.
I've worked across enterprise and startup engagements spanning:
- Data pipelines & warehousing β Record linkage on 15M+ records, ETL/ELT across Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery
- Agentic AI & MLOps β Snowflake Cortex agent workflows, prompt engineering, evaluation, OpenAI API
- Backend engineering β 10+ microservices, FastAPI, Django, cross-region architectures on AWS/Azure/GCP
- Infrastructure β Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD, production monitoring
π Investment Data Platform Backend feature development across 10+ microservices integrating data from Sustainalytics, PitchBook, Bloomberg, and MSCI. FastAPI, Dagster, Snowflake, Kubernetes.
π Enterprise Document Intelligence Platform Iterated on Snowflake Cortex AI agent workflows for large-scale document extraction and contextual querying. Agent tooling, prompt engineering, and evaluation across a 15-person cross-functional team.
π Single Customer View Pipeline Probabilistic record linkage on ~15M records using Splink. Novel metaphone-based blocking strategies. Optimized runtime from 4+ hours to <1 hour. Serves 10+ business units daily.
π AIComprehend β IEEE Publication (ISNCC 2023) Adaptive reading comprehension platform using PFA-based ML. 79% accuracy, 66% AUC. 13.9% improvement in student test scores.
Data
AI/ML
Backend & Infra
GCP Professional ML Engineer Β· Databricks Data Engineer Associate Β· Azure AI Engineer Associate Β· OpenAI AI Technical Practitioner Β· OpenAI API Deployment Practitioner GCP Generative AI Leader Β· Apache Airflow 3 Fundamentals Β· AWS Cloud Practitioner Β· GCP Cloud Digital Leader Β· Azure Fundamentals
- π οΈ Apache Airflow contributor
- π€ Speaker at various tech events (Google Developer Groups, Python Philippines, Python Davao, Geeks on a Beach, AWS User Group, ISNCC 2023 Qatar
- π₯ Google Developer Group Davao β Community Lead / L&D Lead Β· 10+ events Β· 2,000+ participants
- π Global Shaper, World Economic Forum β Davao Hub



