Résumé / Data & AI Engineering

Samuel Uy

Applied AI and Data Engineer with 3+ years of experience building production RAG systems and enterprise data platforms. Built AI search workflows serving 1,000+ daily queries and improved evaluated answer accuracy to 84% through retrieval and prompt iteration. Leads AI training and enablement at Exist, helping teams apply generative AI to practical delivery workflows.

uy.samuel.a@gmail.comMetro Manila, Philippinessamueluy.com

Professional experience

Exist Software Labs, Inc.

Data Engineer

AI Systems & Enablement

  • Lead AI training and enablement initiatives across Exist, helping teams adopt generative AI tools and apply them to delivery workflows.
  • I built a production RAG pipeline that handles 1,000+ queries each day with LangGraph, AWS Bedrock, and PostgreSQL pgvector.
  • I implemented hybrid retrieval with BM25 keyword search and vector similarity.
  • I designed AI search workflows for intent classification, query analysis, HyDE expansion, and semantic ranking.
  • I reached 84% accuracy across 49 QA test cases through evaluation and prompt iteration.

Data Engineering & Analytics

  • I automated regulatory and compliance reporting each day, reducing manual processing time from 4 hours to 15 minutes.
  • I engineered multi-channel data consolidation across agency and bancassurance systems, processing 500K+ transactions each day.
  • I optimized SQL models and Power BI datasets, cutting report load time by 94%, from 5 minutes to 19 seconds.
  • I refactored performance-critical preprocessing pipelines with Dask, reducing runtime by 90%.

Independent projects & recognition

Snowball

Solely designed, developed, and launched a one-task-at-a-time iOS productivity app.

#1 in the Philippines App Store’s Paid Productivity category

Mayi

We designed, built, and launched this focused travel utility on the App Store.

We reached #1 in Paid Travel · We built and launched it together

Asenso

I built a financial simulation game that makes money decisions feel tangible.

I reached the Top 5 in Paid Games · I brought finance into game design

eGovPH Hackathon 2026

Selected as a Top 30 finalist from more than 250 teams in the national eGovPH Hackathon 2026.

Education

De La Salle University, Manila

BS Computer Science, Major in Software Technology · Honorable Mention

  • I served as AVP for Publicity & Creatives, La Salle Computer Society, 2022 to 2023.
  • I served as AVP for Training & Development, 2021 to 2022.
  • I researched mobile sensor-based interaction detection with classical ML models.

Skills

AI systems: RAG, LangGraph, AWS Bedrock, pgvector, hybrid retrieval, prompt evaluation, agent workflows

Cloud & data: Azure, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Airflow, Snowflake, Power BI

Programming & databases: Python, SQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server

Tools: Git, Docker, Linux CLI

Certifications

  1. 01Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate (DP-203), February 2024
  2. 02Microsoft Certified: Fabric Data Engineer Associate (DP-700), 2025
  3. 03Apache Airflow 3 Fundamentals, Astronomer, 2025
  4. 04Informatica Cloud Data Integration Developer R41, September 2023
  5. 05Boomi Associate Integration Developer, October 2023