Hi! I’m Emark M. Buenaflor, a senior data engineer and AI/ML specialist with over 7 years of professional experience designing and implementing scalable data pipelines and ML solutions. I excel at translating complex business requirements into robust data architectures and analytics-driven strategies, with hands-on expertise in Python, SQL, cloud data warehouses like BigQuery, and AI/ML tooling.

Emark M. Buenaflor

Hi! I’m Emark M. Buenaflor, a senior data engineer and AI/ML specialist with over 7 years of professional experience designing and implementing scalable data pipelines and ML solutions. I excel at translating complex business requirements into robust data architectures and analytics-driven strategies, with hands-on expertise in Python, SQL, cloud data warehouses like BigQuery, and AI/ML tooling.

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Hi! I’m Emark M. Buenaflor, a senior data engineer and AI/ML specialist with over 7 years of professional experience designing and implementing scalable data pipelines and ML solutions.

I excel at translating complex business requirements into robust data architectures and analytics-driven strategies, with hands-on expertise in Python, SQL, cloud data warehouses like BigQuery, and AI/ML tooling.

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Work Experience

Senior AI/ML Engineer at Stock Trading Startup Platform
March 20, 2024 - February 20, 2026
Built an end-to-end algorithmic trading ecosystem focusing on intraday and daily equities, enabling real-time signal generation, backtesting, and automated trade execution using FastAPI, Streamlit, and MongoDB. Developed modular financial strategies along with a Streamlit dashboard that visualizes, simulates, and optimizes technical-indicator-based strategies and candlestick overlays. Created an automated trade allocation engine, a stock ranking and scoring system, bot orchestration, and portfolio monitoring via a Django dashboard connected to Interactive Brokers API and MongoDB.
OpenAI Developer at Zurney.app
February 1, 2023 - November 1, 2023
Built a FastAPI backend with GPT-3 API integration to generate travel itineraries and extract locations. Created a Next.js app to display itineraries and visualize geo-locations on Google Maps color-coded by trip day. Dockerized and deployed both the FastAPI backend and Next.js frontend to DigitalOcean.
Machine Learning Engineer at Samsung R&D Institute (SIDi)
January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2022
Engaged in global projects managed by Samsung, implementing and optimizing ML models for real-time speech recognition and audio event detection on mobile devices. Improved Galaxy’s multilingual speech recognition features shipped by Samsung and currently used by millions of users. Implemented a modular proof-of-concept of Android apps for continuously reading the device’s microphone, feeding keyword-spotting models, and displaying its output predictions. Assisted Q&A teams during live and simulated tests, documenting results and collecting feedback.

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science at Carlos Hilado Memorial State University
January 1, 2016 - January 1, 2020

Qualifications

Data Entry Course
January 1, 2023 - January 1, 2023

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Professional Services, Media & Entertainment

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