Ivan Paner

Machine Learning Engineer based in Manila, Philippines. Specializing in Azure OpenAI, AWS cloud services, and end-to-end ML pipeline development.

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1. Contact
2. Experience
3. Technical Skills
4. Education
5. Publications

Contact Information

Location: Manila, Philippines
Email: ivan.paner@gmail.com
Mobile: +63 917 874 3339
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ivan-paner
Languages: English, Filipino

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Work Experience

Thinking Machines Data Science

Machine Learning Engineer | April 2021 – Present

• Built Gen AI systems for ASEAN investment firm: employee performance evaluation, automated due diligence reports, and enterprise RAG knowledge base.
• Benchmarked open source LLM throughput using vLLM and deployed on-premises, defining company policy on open source LLMs.
• Led migration of 44 ML models from Cloudera to AWS in 8 months for major telecoms client. Managed technical architecture across Airflow, EMR, SageMaker, and Snowflake.
• Delivered GCP migration POC with linear regression models 2 weeks ahead of schedule, resulting in expanded ML services contract.
• Migrated 6 SAS models to Python, reducing one model's training time by 7 hours while maintaining performance.
• Built data pipelines for 14 providers covering e-commerce, financials, logistics, and HR data.

Augmented Intelligence Pros

NLP Team Lead | April 2017 – April 2021

• Designed microservice architecture for BPO conversational agent, enabling independent team feature delivery.
• Managed team of 4 researchers and engineers delivering features in agile sprints.
• Built graph data structures for conversation flow modeling and annotation tools for call transcript processing.
• Automated microservice testing and Kubernetes deployment pipelines.

Dimension Data Asia Pacific

Junior Software Developer | May 2015 – August 2016

• Developed and tested applications using Xamarin.
• Researched big data and DevOps technologies to improve pre-sales operations.

Technical Skills

• Languages: Python, FastAPI
• AI/ML: Azure OpenAI, AWS SageMaker, GCP Vertex AI
• Cloud: AWS (EMR, MWAA), GCP Cloud Build
• Data: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Snowflake, Airflow, Elasticsearch
• DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins

Education

De La Salle University

B.S. Computer Science, Specialization in Software Technology
Manila, Philippines | 2015

Awards:

• Graduated Cum Laude
• Most Outstanding Thesis Award

University of the Philippines Manila

B.S. Medical Science
Manila, Philippines | 2011

Publications

Breadcrumb: An indoor simultaneous localization and mapping system for mobile devices

Authors: Duke Danielle Delos Santos, Alron Jan Lam, Jules Macatangay, Ivan Paner, Courtney Anne Ngo

Published: 2016 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS)
DOI: 10.1109/SAS.2016.7479900