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Ken Patrick Garcia

AI Full-Stack Engineer

I ship production AI systems — RAG, agents, and the full stack around them.

  • Champion — C(Old) St.art Hackathon 2025
  • Top 13 of 500+ — DEVAKDA · shipped Android v1.0.0
  • Beacon — persistent-memory research agent, shipped solo

kenbuilds · production AI since 2025 · 15+ shipped projects

[ 01 · THE WORK ]

The work

Three systems traced end to end, plus the champion build — then the full ship log.

[ SHIP LOG ]

now building: THE TRACE — this portfolio as a documented systemgithub: 9 pushes · 2 repos / 30d

  • JobdunLive on the Apple App Store (AU) and Google Play — ~70K lines of Dart across 566 files, one Flutter codebase on iOS, Android, and web.

    Job marketplace for the Australian construction trades. One Flutter codebase across iOS, Android and web, on a Supabase backend with a Next.js admin console. 32 Postgres tables under row-level security, 88 migrations, and 5 Deno edge functions covering the jobs feed, push delivery, and ABN / trade-licence verification against Australian regulator APIs. The jobs feed sits behind an Upstash Redis read-through cache (45s TTL, write invalidation, kill switch) with an encrypted on-device Hive cache for stale-while-revalidate reads and offline browsing.

    • Flutter
    • Dart
    • Riverpod
    • Supabase
    • PostgreSQL (RLS)
    • Deno Edge Functions
    • Next.js
    • Redis
    • Firebase

    live ↗

  • KudlitTop 13 of 500+ — DEVAKDA · Baybayin scanner shipped as Android v1.0.0.
    Kudlit v1.0.0 release banner — Baybayin scanner, translator, and learning companion

    Camera-first Baybayin glyph scanner, two-way translation between Filipino text and Baybayin Unicode, lessons and quiz practice, and Butty — an AI learning companion for explanations. Shipped as a public Android APK with its own bundled design system and Baybayin display font.

    • Flutter
    • YOLO → TFLite
    • Local Gemma
    • Gemini

    repo ↗

  • TeamOSPrivate team hub, shipped solo in ~3 months — 46 pages, 56 API routes, 31-table schema.

    TeamOS brings daily operations into one private hub for a distributed digital services team. It replaced 4+ separate tools: project boards and ticketing, attendance with live presence and overtime approvals, recruiting with resume parsing and a consent-gated talent pool, LMS courses/quizzes/certificates, and AI-drafted executive briefings that route to human review. Led the migration off a third-party PM SaaS — SQLite → Supabase Postgres, custom JWT → Supabase Auth + Google OAuth.

    • Next.js 16
    • Supabase
    • Drizzle
    • n8n
    • LLM APIs

    internal / details on request

  • HerbaLensTop 10 of 53 — DOST-TAPI 2025 · medicinal-plant recognition.
    DOST-TAPI ClustRICE 2025 finalist certificate naming the HerbaLens team

    AI medicinal-plant recognition bridging Filipino herbal knowledge with computer vision — TensorFlow models in an Android app, with a public project site.

    • Android
    • TensorFlow
    • Computer vision

    live ↗

  • ARSBest Paper, 97% — roadside emergencies matched to nearby mechanics.
    The ARS team recognized at the 8th Research Congress, University of Makati

    Connects vehicle owners with mechanics for on-demand repairs: booking, live ETA over a self-hosted OSRM routing server built for the Philippine road network, in-app chat, AI diagnostics via a Rasa + RAG + Gemini chatbot with Taglish support, and a real-time mechanic dashboard — Firebase backend, feature-first clean architecture.

    • Flutter
    • Riverpod
    • Firebase
    • Self-hosted OSRM
    • Rasa + RAG

    repo ↗live ↗

  • Champion

    C(Old) St.art Hackathon 2025FlowFit

  • 1st Runner-Up

    InfoTech Olympics 2025 · Android App Development: ProductivityPacebeats

  • Top 13 of 500+

    DEVAKDA Hackathon 2026Kudlit

  • Top 10 of 53

    DOST-TAPI ClustRICE 2025HerbaLens

  • Best Paper · 97%

    8th Research Congress, University of MakatiARS

[ 02 · THE LAB ]

The lab

Local inference on hardware I run myself. The models on the résumé run in this room first.

ASUS laptop

local inference server

40GB RAM · Ubuntu 24.04

Ollama — Gemma, Qwen Coder · Open WebUI

MacBook Air M4

development

16GB

dev machine — builds, agents, this site

ThinkVision T27h-30

display

27" QHD

n8n canvases & dashboards

Galaxy A26

test device

Android

Kudlit builds on real hardware

  • m4 ──▶ asus · prompts → local models
  • m4 ──▶ a26 · APK → device

[ 03 · TALKS ]

Talks & community

First speakership: Qwen Meetup Manila #2 — hosted by Alibaba Cloud PH.

Ken speaking at Qwen Meetup Manila #2

FIRST CONFERENCE TALK · 2026

From Creative Brief to Campaign

Qwen Meetup Manila #2 · Alibaba Cloud Philippines · Common Ground, Rockwell

Qwen as a creative director that delegates to specialist models — live, with no written brief. From a single photo of a Filipino café it pitched a rival brand, wrote the video prompt, and wired the campaign end-to-end through n8n + Wan Video.

AI amplifies the creative — it doesn't replace them.

SHOWS UP IN

  • Alibaba Cloud · QwenSpeaker
  • AWS User Group PHCommunity Officer
  • Data Engineering PilipinasDataCamp Scholar
  • Google Gen AI Academy APAC
  • OpenAI · Codex
  • Vercel
  • n8n
  • GDG Manila
  • Python PH

[ 04 · CONTACT ]

Hiring for AI engineering? I reply fast.

Ken Patrick Garcia
[email protected]
Résumé PDF

4.9K+ followers on LinkedIn · building in public · 2-minute intro video ↗