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<span>●</span> Available for Consulting
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Marc Castro<br />
<span class="highlight">Tech Consultant</span> &<br />
Lead AI Engineer
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I design and ship enterprise AI systems — from LLM-powered document pipelines
and production RAG platforms to MLOps frameworks and data analytics dashboards. <br>
MS Data Science · Published researcher · 4× hackathon medalist.
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<p class="section-label">About me</p>
<h2 class="section-heading">Researcher turned<br />production AI engineer</h2>
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I started doing AI and data science research during my undergraduate years at
UP Diliman in 2018, then continued as a research associate at the Philippine
Genome Center, co-authoring papers on SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance and
building data pipelines for national genomic analysis. That foundation in
rigorous, reproducible science shaped how I approach engineering problems today.
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From there I moved into industry — data science at AIA (Asia-Pacific's largest
insurance group), then managing AI initiatives at TDCX AI in Singapore, and now
leading enterprise LLM development at Intelligent AI Solutions, a UK-based
consultancy. Along the way I've won 4 national and international hackathons,
trained corporate and government teams on AI, and consulted for the premier Philippine
Science High School System on data-driven student outcomes.
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<p>
I’m most energized by the friction between 'it works in a notebook' and 'it runs reliably at scale.'
My focus is on the invisible infrastructure that makes AI viable: async pipelines, rigorous evaluation frameworks,
rate-limiting, and drift detection. I don’t just build models; I build the architectural systems that move AI out
of the lab and into the core of how modern enterprises actually work.
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<span class="stat__num">7+</span>
<span class="stat__label">Years in AI/DS</span>
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<span class="stat__num">30+</span>
<span class="stat__label">Production-Level Projects</span>
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<span class="stat__num">4×</span>
<span class="stat__label">Hackathon wins</span>
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<h2 class="section-heading reveal">Experience</h2>
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From genomics research to enterprise LLMs — a career built on turning
complex data problems into reliable systems.
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<p class="timeline-role">Lead AI Engineer · Tech Consultant</p>
<p class="timeline-org">Intelligent AI Solutions — UK-based Enterprise AI Consultancy</p>
<p class="timeline-period">Sep 2024 → Present</p>
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Led end-to-end development of enterprise LLM solutions: a media monitoring
system for large-scale bias detection, and a RAG knowledge management system
for a global travel agency — driving operational efficiency and data-driven
decision making.
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<li>
Spearheaded AI research and production deployment: advanced RAG architectures,
fine-tuning methodologies, scalable LLM implementations, agentic chatbot
solutions, and automated workflow systems across multiple industries.
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<p class="timeline-role">Senior Data Science Consultant</p>
<p class="timeline-org">PSHS – Knowledge Innovation Division</p>
<p class="timeline-period">Sep 2024 → Present</p>
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Spearheading data science initiatives for the Philippine Science High School —
student performance management and data-driven curriculum enhancement for
targeted academic interventions.
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<p class="timeline-org">CIIT & Eskwelabs</p>
<p class="timeline-period">Nov 2023 → Present</p>
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<li>
Instructor and mentor for workshops, bootcamps, hackathons, and trainings
focused on AI, No-Code AI, and Data Science — clients include government
organisations, corporate executives, and professionals from diverse backgrounds.
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<p class="timeline-org">TDCX AI — Singapore</p>
<p class="timeline-period">Aug 2023 → Sep 2024</p>
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Developed a Forecasting Model streamlining Workforce Management tasks by
integrating predictive analytics and simulation capabilities in a user-friendly
interface.
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Built an LLM-powered web application generating realistic simulation scenarios
for agent training — reduced time to proficiency by at least 20% and delivered
near-real-life customer conversation experiences during onboarding.
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<p class="timeline-org">AIA Digital+ — Asia-Pacific</p>
<p class="timeline-period">Aug 2022 → Aug 2023</p>
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<li>
Designed and implemented an end-to-end data pipeline for Next Best Action (NBA)
campaigns — reduced required FTE for NBA model development by up to 95%.
</li>
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Developed a comprehensive Fraud Detection solution to automate claim request
approvals — projected 25% reduction in processing times, enhancing operational
efficiency and customer satisfaction.
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<p class="timeline-role">Senior Research Associate — Analytics & Visualization</p>
<p class="timeline-org">Philippine Genome Center</p>
<p class="timeline-period">Sep 2020 → Mar 2021</p>
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Reduced reporting times for genomic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 samples through
custom data pipelines and analytical modules.
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Co-authored multiple peer-reviewed papers on emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants
within the Philippines, published in international journals.
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<p class="edu-degree">Master of Science in Data Science</p>
<p class="edu-school">Asian Institute of Management</p>
<p class="edu-period">Mar 2021 – Jun 2022 · Graduated 2022</p>
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<p class="edu-degree">BS Applied Physics — Instrumentation</p>
<p class="edu-school">University of the Philippines – Diliman</p>
<p class="edu-period">Aug 2015 – Jun 2020 · Graduated 2020</p>
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<h2 class="section-heading reveal">Tools & technologies</h2>
<p class="section-sub reveal">Full-stack AI Engineering — from model integration to deployment infrastructure.</p>
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<p class="skill-group__title">LLMs & Generative AI</p>
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<span class="skill-pill">OpenAI GPT-4o / o1</span>
<span class="skill-pill">Anthropic Claude</span>
<span class="skill-pill">Google Gemini</span>
<span class="skill-pill">Azure OpenAI</span>
<span class="skill-pill">Ollama · Local LLMs</span>
<span class="skill-pill">Stable Diffusion</span>
<span class="skill-pill">Hugging Face</span>
<span class="skill-pill">Fine-tuning · LoRA</span>
<span class="skill-pill">Prompt Engineering</span>
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<p class="skill-group__title">RAG & Information Retrieval</p>
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<span class="skill-pill">RAG Architectures</span>
<span class="skill-pill">Agentic RAG</span>
<span class="skill-pill">ChromaDB</span>
<span class="skill-pill">Azure AI Search</span>
<span class="skill-pill">Semantic · Hybrid Search</span>
<span class="skill-pill">Cohere Rerank</span>
<span class="skill-pill">LlamaIndex</span>
<span class="skill-pill">LangChain</span>
<span class="skill-pill">OCR · Document AI</span>
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<p class="skill-group__title">ML & Data Science</p>
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<span class="skill-pill">scikit-learn</span>
<span class="skill-pill">PyTorch</span>
<span class="skill-pill">XGBoost · LightGBM</span>
<span class="skill-pill">Time Series Forecasting</span>
<span class="skill-pill">Computer Vision</span>
<span class="skill-pill">NLP · Text Processing</span>
<span class="skill-pill">Statistical Analysis</span>
<span class="skill-pill">Pandas · NumPy</span>
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<p class="skill-group__title">Backend & APIs</p>
<div class="skill-group__items">
<span class="skill-pill">Python</span>
<span class="skill-pill">FastAPI</span>
<span class="skill-pill">Flask · Quart</span>
<span class="skill-pill">REST · Async APIs</span>
<span class="skill-pill">Pydantic</span>
<span class="skill-pill">Laravel</span>
<span class="skill-pill">Node.js</span>
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<p class="skill-group__title">Agentic Dev & AI Tooling</p>
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<span class="skill-pill">Claude Code</span>
<span class="skill-pill">Cursor</span>
<span class="skill-pill">GitHub Copilot</span>
<span class="skill-pill">Agentic Workflows</span>
<span class="skill-pill">Multi-agent Systems</span>
<span class="skill-pill">Tool Use · Function Calling</span>
<span class="skill-pill">MCP Servers</span>
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<p class="skill-group__title">Automation & No-Code</p>
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<span class="skill-pill">n8n</span>
<span class="skill-pill">Zapier</span>
<span class="skill-pill">No-Code AI</span>
<span class="skill-pill">Workflow Automation</span>
<span class="skill-pill">API Integration</span>
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<p class="skill-group__title">Databases & Storage</p>
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<span class="skill-pill">PostgreSQL · MySQL</span>
<span class="skill-pill">DuckDB</span>
<span class="skill-pill">CosmosDB</span>
<span class="skill-pill">SQLite</span>
<span class="skill-pill">ChromaDB · Vector DBs</span>
<span class="skill-pill">Redis</span>
<span class="skill-pill">Azure Blob Storage</span>
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<p class="skill-group__title">MLOps & Pipelines</p>
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<span class="skill-pill">MLflow</span>
<span class="skill-pill">DVC</span>
<span class="skill-pill">Evidently AI</span>
<span class="skill-pill">Papermill</span>
<span class="skill-pill">Docker</span>
<span class="skill-pill">CI/CD · GitHub Actions</span>
<span class="skill-pill">Weights & Biases</span>
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<p class="skill-group__title">Cloud & Infrastructure</p>
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<span class="skill-pill">Azure · Azure OpenAI</span>
<span class="skill-pill">Azure AI Foundry</span>
<span class="skill-pill">Azure Container Apps</span>
<span class="skill-pill">GCP · Vertex AI</span>
<span class="skill-pill">AWS</span>
<span class="skill-pill">Azure AD · RBAC</span>
<span class="skill-pill">Bicep · IaC</span>
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<p class="skill-group__title">Analytics & Visualisation</p>
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<span class="skill-pill">Streamlit</span>
<span class="skill-pill">Power BI · Tableau</span>
<span class="skill-pill">Plotly · Matplotlib</span>
<span class="skill-pill">Jupyter</span>
<span class="skill-pill">NetworkX</span>
<span class="skill-pill">SQL Analytics</span>
<span class="skill-pill">No-Code AI</span>
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<h2 class="section-heading reveal">9 production ML/AI projects</h2>
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Each project below is a bespoke enterprise solution. Since these involve proprietary IP,
I’ve shared curated logic fragments that showcase my custom engineering—solving for things
like drift and high-throughput orchestration. These snippets highlight the 'why' behind the architecture.
I am happy to discuss the broader technical challenges of these projects in a 1-on-1 setting.
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<span class="hackathon-badge hackathon-badge--champion">🥇 Champion</span>
<p class="hackathon-name">[NATL.] ICSC Hack-A-Street 2025</p>
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Won a 2-day offline hackathon against 13 data-savvy teams across the Philippines.
Built a gravity-based model to identify optimal bike rack locations — same
approach retailers use for franchise site selection.
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<span class="hackathon-badge hackathon-badge--champion">🥇 Champion</span>
<p class="hackathon-name">[NATL.] DOH-DAP Hack4Health 2024</p>
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Emerged champion in a 3-day face-to-face hackathon against 100+ teams.
Developed an all-in-one fraud detection platform merging DOH and DAP
technological capabilities.
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<span class="hackathon-badge hackathon-badge--second">🥈 2nd Place</span>
<p class="hackathon-name">[INTL.] UN Big Data Hackathon 2023 — Youth Track</p>
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Placed 2nd among 122 teams worldwide. Created a solution addressing UN SDG
goals. Also awarded <strong style="color:var(--accent-light)">Best Youth Team
in the Asian region</strong>.
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<span class="hackathon-badge hackathon-badge--third">🥉 3rd Place</span>
<p class="hackathon-name">[NATL.] USHER Hackathon 2022</p>
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Awarded 3rd place for developing an ML pipeline interpreting early warning
signals of building damage.
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Detection and genome sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 belonging to the B.1.1.7 lineage
in the Philippines.
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1128/MRA.00219-21" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
doi: 10.1128/MRA.00219-21 ↗
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Genome sequencing and analysis of an emergent SARS-CoV-2 variant characterised
by multiple spike protein mutations from Central Visayas, Philippines.
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.03.21252812" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
doi: 10.1101/2021.03.03.21252812 ↗
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A directed minimum connected dominating set for protein-protein interaction
networks.
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isbn: 9780367814656
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Delivering AI education to government agencies, universities, and corporate teams
across the Philippines and Southeast Asia.
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<p class="speaking-item__title">AI Technology Government Trainings</p>
<p class="speaking-item__org">Department of Information & Communication Technology · ICT Literacy and Competency Development Bureau</p>
<p class="speaking-item__period">Aug 2025 · Nov 2025</p>
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<p class="speaking-item__title">BANT.AI: Revolutionising Fraud Detection with Unified Health Data</p>
<p class="speaking-item__org">Department of Health · 20th National Health Research Forum for Action</p>
<p class="speaking-item__period">Oct 2024</p>
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<div class="speaking-group__header">🎓 Universities & Colleges</div>
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<p class="speaking-item__title">The Art of Data Storytelling and Data Visualization</p>
<p class="speaking-item__org">University of Santo Tomas — Dept. of Computer Science · HORAIZON</p>
<p class="speaking-item__period">Mar 2023</p>
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<p class="speaking-item__title">Breaking Bias in AI</p>
<p class="speaking-item__org">Far Eastern University Institute of Technology · FEU Tech ACM</p>
<p class="speaking-item__period">Jun 2023</p>
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<p class="speaking-item__title">Breaking into Tech Consulting Within 5 Years</p>
<p class="speaking-item__org">Asian Institute of Management - Career Services Office</p>
<p class="speaking-item__period">Mar 2025</p>
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<div class="speaking-group__header">🏢 Corporate Trainings</div>
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<p class="speaking-item__title">Generative AI & Low Code for Corporate Teams</p>
<p class="speaking-item__org">Ayala Group — Various organisations from the Ayala Group of Companies</p>
<p class="speaking-item__period">Jun 2025 – Sep 2025</p>
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<p class="speaking-item__title">N8N: Automation Tools for E-Commerce</p>
<p class="speaking-item__org">Carousell Singapore · IT, Marketing & HR teams</p>
<p class="speaking-item__period">Aug 2025</p>
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<h2 class="section-heading">Let's build something together</h2>
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I'm open to senior ML engineering roles, technical consulting engagements,
speaking invitations, and research collaborations in LLMs, RAG architectures,
and production AI systems.
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<span class="contact-link__label">GitHub</span>
<span class="contact-link__value">github.com/AstroMC98</span>
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<span class="contact-link__label">LinkedIn</span>
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<span class="contact-link__value">mcastro.dsci@gmail.com</span>