open to AI engineering roles · Metro Manila / remote
AI Full-Stack Engineer
I ship production AI systems — RAG, agents, and the full stack around them.
kenbuilds · production AI since 2025 · 15+ shipped projects
[ 01 · THE WORK ]
Three systems traced end to end, plus the champion build — then the full ship log.
[ TRACE · LEXINSIGHT ]
Legal RAG over Philippine law — dual-mode chat, live in beta.
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[ TRACE · BEACON ]
Research that compounds — an agent with persistent memory, shipped solo.
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[ TRACE · PACEBEATS ]
1st Runner-Up — InfoTech Olympics 2025 (University of Makati), Android App Development: Productivity.
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[ BUILD · FLOWFIT ]
Champion — C(Old) St.art 2025 · kids' fitness with on-device AI.
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[ SHIP LOG ]
now building: THE TRACE — this portfolio as a documented systemgithub: 72 pushes · 9 repos / 30d ↗
KudlitTop 13 of 500+ — DEVAKDA · Baybayin scanner shipped as Android v1.0.0.
Camera-first Baybayin glyph scanner, two-way translation between Filipino text and Baybayin Unicode, lessons and quiz practice, and Butty — an AI learning companion for explanations. Shipped as a public Android APK with its own bundled design system and Baybayin display font.
TeamOSInternal ops hub, shipped solo in ~3 months — 46 pages, 56 API routes, 31-table schema.All-in-one operations platform for a distributed digital services team, replacing 4+ separate SaaS tools: project management with kanban and sprints, attendance with live presence and a policy-driven overtime approval queue, a recruiting ATS with automated resume parsing and a consent-gated talent pool, a full LMS with server-graded quizzes and PDF certificates, and AI-drafted executive briefings gated behind human review. Led the migration off a third-party PM SaaS — SQLite → Supabase Postgres, custom JWT → Supabase Auth + Google OAuth.
internal / details on request
LigTASAgent on Cloud Run — built at Google Gen AI Academy APAC.internal / details on request
HerbaLensTop 10 of 53 — DOST-TAPI 2025 · medicinal-plant recognition.
AI medicinal-plant recognition bridging Filipino herbal knowledge with computer vision — TensorFlow models in an Android app, with a public project site.
ARSBest Paper, 97% — roadside emergencies matched to nearby mechanics.
Connects vehicle owners with mechanics for on-demand repairs: booking, live ETA over a self-hosted OSRM routing server built for the Philippine road network, in-app chat, AI diagnostics via a Rasa + RAG + Gemini chatbot with Taglish support, and a real-time mechanic dashboard — Firebase backend, feature-first clean architecture.
Champion
C(Old) St.art Hackathon 2025FlowFit
1st Runner-Up
InfoTech Olympics 2025 · Android App Development: ProductivityPacebeats
Top 13 of 500+
DEVAKDA Hackathon 2026Kudlit
Top 10 of 53
DOST-TAPI ClustRICE 2025HerbaLens
Best Paper · 97%
8th Research Congress, University of MakatiARS
[ 02 · THE LAB ]
Local inference on hardware I run myself. The models on the résumé run in this room first.
40GB RAM · Ubuntu 24.04
Ollama — Gemma, Qwen Coder · Open WebUI
16GB
dev machine — builds, agents, this site
27" QHD
n8n canvases & dashboards
Android
Kudlit builds on real hardware
[ 03 · TALKS ]
First speakership: Qwen Meetup Manila #2 — hosted by Alibaba Cloud PH.
FIRST CONFERENCE TALK · 2026
Qwen Meetup Manila #2 · Alibaba Cloud Philippines · Common Ground, Rockwell
Qwen as a creative director that delegates to specialist models — live, with no written brief. From a single photo of a Filipino café it pitched a rival brand, wrote the video prompt, and wired the campaign end-to-end through n8n + Wan Video.
“AI amplifies the creative — it doesn't replace them.”
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[ 04 · CONTACT ]
4.9K+ followers on LinkedIn · building in public · 2-minute intro video ↗