| Role | Organization | Focus |
|---|---|---|
| Research Affiliate (Pending) | MIT Media Lab (Fluid Interfaces) | Developing Somach: A silent speech interface recreating Alter Ego with commodity hardware. |
| Software Reliability Engineer | Dell Technologies | Reduced failure diagnosis of 100TB+ clusters from hours to <5 minutes via AI Fault Injection. |
| AI Software Engineer | Edgur | Promoted to AI Lead; increased user engagement by 20% via Vector Search algorithms. |
| Team Captain / Speaker | Marigondon NHS / Microsoft | Led team from last place to World Finals (Hungary); Sole student speaker for 20,000+ viewers. |
- Somach: Silent Speech Interface: Redefining HCI by capturing "subvocalization" using ~$30 hardware; recreating MIT's Alter Ego using commodity heart sensors.
- Padayon Ko: Semantic Search for Scholarships: Implemented high-dimensional vector embeddings to match student profiles with funding, securing $95,050+ for myself, the first user.
- Pareto-Optimal Models for Low-Cost EMG Control: arXiv:2601.06516, live since January 2026. 18 models, 1.54M datapoints, showing simple models are Pareto-optimal for real-time EMG gesture recognition on low-cost microcontrollers. One live preprint; two further manuscripts are in preparation and not yet submitted.
- Hyperbolic Infrastructure Agent: Won Coinbase Hackathon + $1,000 commission for "Rent 8 H100s" voice bot; 20x provisioning speedup.
Two Delaware C corporations I founded and run:
- Somach Systems, Inc. — voluntary silent-speech input. A wearable that reads the muscle activity of speech you articulate but never voice, and turns it into text. Evidence so far: a $35 two-channel sEMG rig, 4,033 CSV files, 1.54M datapoints, and a six-class classifier at 51.8% ± 2.8% (N=1).
- The Mildly Useful Company — small tools that do one thing. First product shipped: Bottomless, a Chrome extension that captures a full page in one render pass, roughly 100x faster than scroll-and-stitch.
Most of this year went into the operating system for my own work, then into writing it down. 40 case studies, each with what forced the architecture and the mistakes worth keeping. A few:
| Life OS | 53 scheduled agents with a zero-dependency dead-man's switch on separate hardware. Built after every automation I owned failed silently for five weeks while a wrapper printed a green checkmark and exited 0. |
| Voice to Obsidian | Fully local capture: MLX Whisper at 22x real time into a 31B extractor into a task graph. Designed against a habit tracker that scored 0/7 for twenty straight weeks, so nothing in it needs daily upkeep. |
| Blackout | A privacy console for nine recorders on my own machine, with no bare "off" in its state model. Written because the control I had reported success for work it never did. |
| recall | A memory index where a 12-week behavioural simulation proved three of my tuning constants wrong, including one "tiebreaker" that was changing the top result for 28% of queries. |
Paper 1 in progress: a volume-conductor model asking which speech muscles are visible from behind the ear. The answer is a negative result, and reporting it as one is the point.
- B.Sc. Computational Sciences (AI), Minerva University (2022–2026)
- Pedagogy: Global Rotation (7 cities) & Active Learning Seminars.
- Partial Scholarship Recipient: $95,050 total awarded (1.9% acceptance rate)
- Omi MCP Hackathon Grand Prize ($25,000): Winner for 'Omi Wrap', an AI necklace life summary app.
- Google AI for Impact Winner ($8,000): Top 1 of 22,900+ developers globally for 'Padayon Ko'.
- Webflow Times Square Highlight: Featured on NYC Billboard (Community of 3.5M designers).
- World Robotics Olympiad International Finalist: Represented Philippines vs 73 nations in Hungary (2019).
- National Science Fair Grand Champion: Telemedicine AI achieved 92% diagnostic accuracy in hospital trials.
- PH100 under 30 (2025): Named one of the Philippines' Top 100 emerging innovators.
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