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 integrations
- 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· 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 to name a few)
- 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

