John Louie Cleofas

AI Engineer & Software Engineer

Makati City, Philippines | contact@johnlouiecleofas.com | LinkedIn

AI Developer who builds and runs production RAG systems on self-hosted infrastructure. I lead a 4-person software team and manage on-prem LLM serving on GPUStack, covering everything from Dify pipelines and document preprocessing to Docker deployments and incident analysis. Seeking AI/ML Engineer roles focused on production LLM systems.

AI Developer

Questronix Corporation

Makati City

February 2026 – Present

  • Built and maintain on-prem RAG chatbots on Dify using Qwen LLMs with Qwen and Nomic embeddings, serving 198 internal users across 423 conversations and 2,100+ messages in 3 months.
  • Improved retrieval quality through system prompt tuning and retrieval configuration, increasing successfully answered queries by 90% and sharply reducing "insufficient knowledge" responses.
  • Manage LLM serving on a GPUStack cluster, leading log analysis and incident investigation; diagnosed OOM-killed worker containers and recommended memory upgrades to the hardware team.
  • Maintain and extend a Document Pre-Processor that converts 10 file formats (PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLS/XLSX, CSV, HTML, XML, MD, TXT) into Markdown chunks for embedding in Dify.
  • Sole deployer of Dockerized applications to production, handling all releases during bug fix and feature cycles.
  • Replaced hardcoded API filtering in a Django backend with dynamic filtering configurable through Django Admin, and added backend aliasing and automatic chart coloring to remove manual frontend setup.
  • Resolved 11 critical production bugs and shipped 2 features in 2 weeks, accounting for 90% of critical fixes during the support phase.
  • Lead a 4-person software team, owning architecture decisions, task allocation, and mentoring of junior developers.
  • Develop and maintain production Django applications.
  • Develop and maintain production Python scripts.

Technology Exposure

AI Chatbots RAG LLMs Dify Qwen Nomic Embed Python Django SQL Rancher Kubernetes Longhorn ClickHouse GPUStack Docker Unix

IoT Engineer / IT Support Engineer

KDDI Philippines Corporation

Makati City

September 2024 – February 2026

  • Automated approval, reporting, and scheduling workflows with Power Automate, Microsoft Forms, Teams, and SharePoint, reducing manual workload by 80 to 90% across the team.
  • Digitized the preventive maintenance report process, replacing a print, sign, and scan cycle with e-signatures, digital approvals, and Teams notifications.
  • Built a certification request and approval system with automated exam reminders for engineers and managers, giving management department-wide visibility into certification KPIs.
  • Prototyped an LLM-powered server log analyzer using MiniMax, FastAPI, and Jinja2 to generate detailed log analyses for faster troubleshooting.
  • Developed a Python web scraper that automated retrieval of BSP conversion rates, cutting time spent on the task by 50%.
  • Prototyped an AR/AP monitoring tool for the Accounting department using Python, FastAPI, Jinja2, and SQL.
  • Maintained and troubleshot production IoT devices in a factory environment, supporting vendor-led R&D.
  • Provided technical support to users of the client's IT infrastructure and IoT devices.
  • Performed hardware preventive maintenance and repairs for server, storage, and network equipment.

Technology Exposure

Power Automate Power Apps Microsoft Forms SharePoint Python FastAPI Jinja2 MiniMax Raspberry Pi Windows Server NAS Firewall

Software QA Intern

Baytech BPO Corporation

Pasig City

July 2023 - August 2023

  • Manually tested AI-driven web applications built on LLMs and text-to-image models across Agile sprints, covering functional, regression, and exploratory testing.
  • Designed test cases and reported, tracked, and documented defects in OpenProject to support release quality.
  • Collaborated with the development team to resolve issues and defects.

Technology Exposure

Manual Testing LLMs Stable Diffusion OpenAI OpenProject Agile

Self-Hosted AI Homelab

Proxmox, Ollama, Dify, OpenClaw, Docker

  • Run a two-node Proxmox homelab with a dedicated GPU node serving local models through Ollama.
  • Host a self-managed Dify instance and an OpenClaw multi-agent software engineering team with chief of staff, backend, frontend, QA, and code reviewer agents.

Agentic Blog Publishing Pipeline

Django, Django REST Framework, OpenClaw, Ollama, Docker

  • Built an agentic workflow where an AI agent sends a daily blog topic, turns my reply into a polished post using a humanizer skill, and publishes it automatically through a Django REST API.

RAG Pricing Assistant

Dify, Ollama, Local LLM, Python

  • Built a RAG assistant for a small printing business that reads client requests and calculates quotes from an ingested price list, cutting invoice preparation from 1 to 3 minutes down to 10 to 15 seconds.

AWS Cloud Resume Challenge

johnlouiecleofas.com

S3, CloudFront, Route 53, ACM, API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, IAM, GitHub Actions

  • Deployed a serverless resume site with a visitor counter API built on API Gateway, Lambda, and DynamoDB, served over HTTPS through CloudFront and ACM, with CI/CD through GitHub Actions.

Bachelor of Science in Electronics Engineering Major in Data Science / Machine Learning

Graduated: August 2024

Technological Institute of the Philippines - Quezon City

Thesis: AI-powered non-invasive sexing of Itik Pateros eggs using a hybrid CNN-SVM model, achieving 88.46% classification accuracy.

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Certified Cloud Practitioner
  • Python (PCEP Certified Entry-Level Programmer and PCAP Associate Python Programmer)
  • Cybersecurity (Fortinet Certified Fundamentals in Cybersecurity and Fortinet Certified Associate in Cybersecurity)
  • SQL Fundamentals (Codedex)

AI and LLMs

  • RAG
  • LLMs
  • Dify
  • Ollama
  • GPUStack
  • OpenAI
  • Qwen
  • Nomic Embed
  • MiniMax
  • OpenClaw
  • Agentic workflows
  • Prompt engineering

Programming

  • Python (PCEP and PCAP certified)
  • Django
  • Django REST Framework
  • FastAPI
  • Jinja2
  • SQL
  • REST APIs

Cloud

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Certified Cloud Practitioner
  • S3
  • Lambda
  • API Gateway
  • DynamoDB
  • CloudFront
  • Route 53
  • ACM
  • IAM

Infrastructure and DevOps

  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • On-prem LLM serving
  • NGINX Proxy Manager
  • Linux / Unix
  • Proxmox Virtual Environment
  • LXC
  • GitHub Actions

Tools and Automation

  • Git
  • GitHub
  • NeoVIM
  • Cursor
  • Power Automate
  • Power Apps
  • Power Platform
  • Microsoft Forms
  • SharePoint