Chester BatiforraEngineer 617 M. Lerma St., Brgy. New Zaniga, Philippines, Metro Manila, Mandaluyong City, 1550 chester@bld.ai | I’m a software and data engineer with experience building data pipelines, analytics solutions, simulation models, and machine learning workflows. I also develop multimodal AI systems, taking ideas from experimentation through implementation to deliver practical, reliable capabilities. |
| Work Experiencebld.aiJuly 2021 - PresentJuly 2021 - Present Engineer Oil and Gas Industry Project
Software Engineering / Data Engineering
- Built economic and financial simulation models that enabled scenario analysis for strategic planning and investment decisions.
- Shipped a cross-platform formula transparency feature that exposed model logic, improving auditability and stakeholder trust in calculated outputs.
- Designed and implemented automated validation tests for formula correctness, reducing regression risk and improving model reliability.
- Automated database ingestion workflows to support large-scale data processing and improve refresh speed for downstream modeling.
E-commerce Data & Analytics Project
Data Engineering / Analytics
- Developed end-to-end data pipelines integrating multiple business systems into a centralized analytics layer.
- Transformed raw operational data into composite analytical tables by joining cross-source entities and standardizing business logic.
- Built near real-time dashboards for KPI monitoring across business performance and operations.
- Delivered recurring analytical reports and decision-support insights used by leadership for planning and prioritization.
Machine Learning & MLOps
Machine Learning Engineering
- Implemented experiment tracking and model comparison workflows to improve reproducibility and accelerate iteration cycles.
- Built orchestration pipelines for training, evaluation, and deployment-ready model workflows.
- Applied hyperparameter optimization to forecasting models, improving predictive performance and model stability.
Agentic AI
Applied AI / Computer Vision
- Co-developed hands-on multimodal agent workflows that combine text prompts and image inputs to produce context-aware fashion recommendations.
- Took the product beyond palette generation by integrating StyleAI attribute predictions with skin-tone-driven Color Palette AI outputs, creating a more complete FashionAI experience.
- Designed and connected a retrieval pipeline that turns predicted style attributes and palette recommendations into search queries, surfacing relevant fashion reference images.
- Shipped multi-stage filtering and heuristic validation using color theory and seasonal analysis; iterated on the workflow to improve recommendation quality and consistency.
- Worked across prediction, recommendation, retrieval, and validation to turn model capabilities into an end-to-end user-facing workflow.
EducationUniversity of the Philippines DilimanJune 2013 - May 2020June 2013 - May 2020 Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering SkillsAI Agents AI and machine learning Data Science Django Jupyter Jupyter Notebooks MLOps MySQL NumPy Pandas Video Editing Video creating, editing, and producing |
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