Angelica Marie M. Casuela

Software engineer and applied AI practitioner with 3+ years shipping production systems in fintech and e-commerce. Builds and deploys RAG pipelines, vector databases, and LLM evaluation systems. Has the client-facing track record to translate those systems into business outcomes for non-technical stakeholders in government and enterprise.

Relevant skills

  • AI/ML: RAG pipelines, vector databases (Qdrant, ChromaDB), LLM evaluation, prompt engineering, agentic design (ReAct, Multi-Agent), transformer implementation, RL (PPO, RLHF)
  • Engineering: Python (Flask, FastAPI), TypeScript, SQL, React, Angular, Svelte, Hono, HTML/CSS
  • Infrastructure: AWS (EC2, ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS, CloudFront), GCP, Azure, Docker, Cloudflare Workers/Pages, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline

Work experience

Supreme Court of the Philippines Manila City
Software Engineer Feb 2026 - Present

  • Reduced manual document routing for the Office of the Deputy Court Administrator by building a SharePoint tracking solution with SPFx web parts and Power Automate, which gave staff real-time visibility into their incoming workflows.
  • Improved public information accessibility for one of the Philippines’ highest courts by developing the Office of the Court Administrator’s public website.

Vashcorp Inc. Quezon City
Technology Solutions Consultant Dec 2025 - Jun 2026

  • Maintained production reliability for fintech clients by managing AWS deployments across payment gateway, e-KYC, and earned wage access systems.
  • Supported successful ISO certification through compliance and internal auditing.
  • Accelerated B2B sales cycles by developing technical explainer content that translated complex AI and fintech concepts for non-technical client and partner audiences.

Technical Alignment Research Accelerator Quezon City
Manila Cohort City Organizer Mar 2026 - Jun 2026

  • Delivered a full 14-week ML engineering cohort by managing end-to-end logistics across venue coordination, technical setup, and participant support for the Manila cohort.
  • Served as the primary point of contact between the Manila cohort and organization leadership.

Balanced Futures Technologies Remote
Co-founder and Software Engineer Oct 2025 - Feb 2026

  • Validated product-market fit across 3 cities by acquiring 70+ users and moving Php 10k GMV within 2 months of soft launch, building the full-stack platform (React, PocketBase) from scratch.
  • Owned end-to-end deployment infrastructure and ran rapid product iteration cycles across multiple product pivots (from a secondhand clothes marketplace to an automation tool for social media sellers to a service matching platform) over 2+ years.

Enstack Technologies Inc. Taguig City
Software Engineer Jul 2023 - Jul 2025

  • Served a client-facing e-commerce web builder platform with 25,000 MAU by designing and deploying REST APIs in Flask and Python.
  • Cut reporting turnaround from 3 days to 1 day by building automated BigQuery and AppScript data pipelines.
  • Maintained high availability by managing multi-region AWS infrastructure (EC2, ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS, CloudFront) and streamlined deployment cycles with CI/CD via GitHub Actions and AWS CodePipeline.

Education

University of the Philippines Diliman Quezon City
Master of Technology Management Expected 2026

Ateneo de Manila University Quezon City
BS Information Technology Entrepreneurship (Honors) Aug 2017 - Jul 2021

Projects

  • AI Governance Accelerator (Apr 2026 - May 2026). Managed 10+ fellows across 4 AI research groups at AI Safety Diliman, coordinating weekly office hours, mentor-fellow sessions, and Demo Day logistics including international mentor payments.
  • Policy Observatory (Mar 2026 - Present). Built a RAG-based legal document intelligence platform over 18,000+ Philippine legislative bills with Qdrant vector DB, Postgres schema, and automated CI/CD. Validated use cases directly with Congress legislative staff, GovTech vendors, and civil society organizations.
  • SMS Fraud Checker (Mar 2025). – Won 3rd Place at the BSP Youth Financial Inclusion Hackathon by building an LLM-powered scam classifier with structured verdict output and a data collection pipeline to seed future training data.
  • Scam Detective (Mar 2025). Demonstrated human-in-the-loop evaluation methodology by building a gamified app where users compete against an AI scam classifier to surface false positive and false negative failure modes; presented at Apart Research’s Women in AI Safety Hackathon.
  • Make AI Safe (Jan 2025). Built a crowdsourced AI risk mitigation repository based on MIT's AI Risk Repository with Airtable and GitHub Actions for community-driven, automated deployment.
  • Seequence (Oct 2024). – Built an AI-assisted HR interview tool with LLM-powered resume chat, real-time feedback streaming, and bulk scheduling via Calendly and Cal.com calendar integrations.

Honors and awards

Training and Certifications

  • Technical AI Research Accelerator Fellow (TARA, Mar 2026 - Jun 2026). 14-week hands-on curriculum covering transformer implementation, mechanistic interpretability, reinforcement learning (PPO, RLHF), LLM evaluation, and LLM agent design.
  • ASEAN Future Catalyst Fellowship (Social Impact Catalyst, Mar 2026)
  • MLxGenerative AI (Oxford Machine Learning Summer School, Jun 2025)
  • Azure AI Fundamentals (Microsoft, Jan 2025)
  • Azure Data Fundamentals (Microsoft, Jan 2025)
  • Condor Camp Southeast Asia (Condor Initiative, Dec 2024)