Hykinel Bon GuarteEngineer Philippines, Quezon City bon@bld.ai | Bon is a data scientist and engineer with over a decade of experience (since 2013) delivering end-to-end machine learning solutions across finance, energy, mining, manufacturing, and education. He has built and productionized predictive models, optimization engines, and NLP pipelines, and has designed the data infrastructure needed to operationalize them. Earlier in his career he also developed web and mobile applications, giving him a full-stack perspective on how data products are built and consumed. | Work Experiencebld.aiNovember 2018 - PresentNovember 2018 - Present Senior Engineer Web services provider
Modeled a mixed-integer linear program to optimize resource allocation and contingency routing decisions under disruption scenarios Power generation
Developed a time-series demand forecasting model and implemented the orchestrated data pipelines needed to operationalize it at scale Footwear retail
Developed an NLP pipeline that scrapes product descriptions across popular brands and extracts structured attributes using fine-tuned transformer models — enabling structured catalog enrichment for downstream recommendation systems Metal mining
Productionized a risk estimation model end-to-end — from pilot to automated retraining, orchestrated inference pipelines, and MLOps governance on AzureML Oil and gas
Implemented a reusable engine library that standardizes and accelerates economic evaluation workflows, reducing duplicated analysis effort at scale School system
Optimized a pose estimation algorithm to allow real-time processing of incoming security feed Gold mining
Laid out ETL pipelines for the warehousing and transformation of high-impact supply chain data on Azure Data Lake and Data Factory Metal exploration
Designed and orchestrated multi-step data pipelines for converting and organizing proprietary source formats into standardized, queryable outputs Advertising
Implemented end-to-end data ETL for demographic, transactional, and geographic data sources; constructed audience clusters from input filters and pushed to DSPs Fashion chain
Set up a data collection app and its postprocessing of survey responses for data warehousing and visualization Amazon Web Services Training and CertificationOctober 2024 - October 2027October 2024 - October 2027 Certified AWS Machine Learning - Specialty Earners of this certification have an in-depth understanding of AWS machine learning (ML) services. They demonstrated ability to build, train, tune, and deploy ML models using the AWS Cloud. Badge owners can derive insight from AWS ML services using either pretrained models or custom models built from open-source frameworks. https://www.credly.com/badges/dff4751d-e0c7-49cb-aad0-8ed7d0052f3c icannhas Inc.April 2013 - November 2018April 2013 - November 2018 Software Engineer Brokerage house
Set up high-frequency data consumption and added real-time stock price forecasting Equipment manufacturer
Improved procurement of equipment parts by developing a web scraper for monitoring equipment price and availability data Broadband provider
Developed and integrated full-stack content management solutions, dashboard reporting tool, and project management app to an existing service platform Events app
Developed an Android application that provides users an easier way to discover, organize, and attend events UP Programming GuildJanuary 2014 - October 2018January 2014 - October 2018 Team Captain Chevron Geothermal Philippines Holdings Inc.March 2013 - May 2013March 2013 - May 2013 Intern UP Programming GuildAugust 2009 - March 2013August 2009 - March 2013 ACM-ICPC Competitive Programmer EducationUniversity of the Philippines DilimanJune 2008 - April 2013June 2008 - April 2013 Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering; Magna Cum Laude SkillsAWS SageMaker Amazon Web Services (AWS) Apache Airflow Azure Bayesian Methods College Communication Django Hadoop Java JavaScript framework Jupyter Notebooks MLOps MLflow MongoDB MySQL NLP Operations research/Optimization Pandas PostgresSQL PyTorch Python Redis SQLite Snowflake Time Series Forecasting Warehousing scikit-learn | ||