Manuel Rufino
Associate Engineer
Calabarzon, Philippines
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Top SchoolManuel Rufino is an Associate Engineer with 12 years of experience blending machine learning research and software engineering from Biñan, Philippines. At Samsung Electronics he has driven multimodal model evaluation, built automated data-analysis pipelines, and contributed majorly to SEA-VL, one of the largest Southeast Asian vision-language datasets with ACL 2025 authorship. He has practical full‑stack and backend experience—designing APIs and systems using Node.js, Django, Spring Boot, and multiple databases—alongside NLP and deep learning work for conversational agents. His research output includes two papers at WMT24 and involvement in patent-pending deep learning/vision prototypes, reflecting a mix of product-focused engineering and academic rigor. Manuel is actively pursuing PhD and career opportunities, bringing a rare combination of large-scale dataset curation, publication track record, and hands-on production engineering. He also teaches and mentors internally, having designed a well-rated algorithms course for engineers.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 1.58 (1.0 being the highest, 5.0 being the lowest), Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 1.58 (1.0 being the highest, 5.0 being the lowest) at University of the Philippines Los Baños
English, Filipino
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Github Skills (12)
padding9
barrage7
drawing2
kotlin2
android2
html5-canvas2
canvas2
javascript2
ieee1
python1
canvas2d1
node-canvas1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
antonrufino/LRPTopicGenerator
Mar 2015 - Feb 2018
Contributions:53 commits, 27 pushes, 12 branches in 2 years 11 months
antonrufino/HTMLPaint
Mar 2014 - Nov 2015
Contributions:8 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 7 months
canvasjavascripthtml5html5-canvasdrawing
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