Abien A
Manager, Senior Machine Learning Researcher at GCash
Taguig, Philippines
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Top SchoolAbien A is a Manager and Senior Machine Learning Researcher based in Taguig with a decade of experience designing and deploying production ML systems across fintech, startups, and academia. Currently leading R&D at GCash, he blends hands-on deep learning, computer vision, and NLP work with architecting FastAPI-served model deployments and team coding standards. His background includes leading AI teams in a stealth Silicon Valley startup, building OCR and sentiment systems for insurance and social listening, and consulting on geospatial analyses for the Asian Development Bank. He also teaches data science and advanced intelligent systems at De La Salle University and has repeatedly supported practical LLM and data-centric deep learning courses as a hands-on teaching assistant. Notably, he maintains an archive of code migrations to GitLab and emphasizes reproducible, production-ready ML pipelines informed by both research (GANs/VAEs, ClipCap) and real-world product constraints.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at De La Salle University
English, Tagalog
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
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benchmark10
svm10
crawler10
spotify10
keras-models10
neural-network10
computer-vision10
multiclass-classification10
recurrent10
data-science10
kivy10
information-theory10
knn-classification10
intelligent10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
AFAgarap/vanishing-gradients
Jun 2019 - May 2021
Avoiding the vanishing gradients problem by adding random noise and batch normalization
Contributions:96 commits, 1 PR, 35 pushes in 2 years
pythonleaky-relugradientsbatchdeep-learning
AFAgarap/AFAgarap.github.io
Aug 2019 - May 2023
https://afagarap.works
Contributions:6 PRs, 107 pushes, 18 branches in 3 years 9 months
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