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AI Engineer in the Philippines

Les John Paul Oliver · Urdaneta City, Pangasinan, Philippines · Remote worldwide

I'm Les John Paul Oliver, an AI engineer based in Urdaneta City, Pangasinan. I don't train models. I take Claude and other LLMs and wire them into the work a business already does: answering customers, processing documents, closing the books, and producing the reports nobody wants to write.

Every project on this site was scoped, designed, built, and shipped by me alone, mostly for an electric cooperative that serves 250,000+ member-consumers. That is the environment I build for: real data, real money, and people who need the system to work on Monday morning.

What you can hire me for

  • AI agents and chatbots that answer from your own knowledge base and hand off to a human when it matters.
  • Business process automation that turns days of manual reporting and invoicing into a click.
  • LLM features inside the app you already run: extraction, classification, drafting, tool use.
  • Internal tools and live dashboards on top of the databases you already have.
  • AI-assisted motion graphics and explainers for launches and campaigns.

How I work with AI where it matters

  • Where records or money change, AI explains and a human approves. The refund automation below is built that way: deterministic rules decide, Claude explains the flagged cases, and a person confirms every action, which can be reversed.
  • I work in English and Filipino, on Philippine time (GMT+8), with overlap for Australian, Asian, and US-morning clients.

Proof: work I shipped

AI-Assisted Refund Automation

In production

Automates a utility's daily refund and payment-correction approval queue across two legacy systems. Deterministic recipes decide, Claude explains the flagged cases, and a human confirms every action.

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Tax Compliance Automation

In production

Regulatory tax compliance reporting that took the compliance team two weeks is now a two-click run that finishes in under 5 minutes.

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Wholesale Power Invoice Automation

In production

Automated PDF invoicing for the Philippine wholesale electricity spot market. A ~50-invoice settlement batch that took a full workday now runs in under 30 seconds.

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WeCare: Pharmacy POS & Dispensing Platform

Live

A multi-tenant operations platform for a multi-branch pharmacy and clinic operator: point-of-sale dispensing, PhilHealth benefit dispensing and claims, inventory, and live executive dashboards across every branch.

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ACIRS: 24/7 AI Customer Support

In build

An AI customer-support system that answers members around the clock from the company knowledge base, hands off to the right department, and builds a customer record from every conversation.

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Questions people ask

How do I hire an AI engineer in the Philippines?

Book a free 30-minute call from this page. We go over the problem, the data you have, and what a first version looks like. Pricing depends on scope. Book a free 30-minute call and you get a straight answer on cost and timeline.

Do you work freelance or full-time?

Both. I take freelance projects for clients worldwide and I'm open to remote AI engineering roles, including Australian and other overseas teams.

What does an AI engineer actually build for a business?

Systems that save hours or win revenue: assistants that answer leads around the clock, automations that turn a two-week compliance report into a run that finishes in under five minutes, and dashboards that show live numbers instead of last month's spreadsheet.

Which AI models do you use?

Mostly Claude through the Anthropic API, chosen per task for cost and quality. The model is a part, not the product; most of the work is the data, the guardrails, and the integration.

Sa Filipino

Paano mag-hire ng AI engineer sa Pilipinas?

Mag-book ng libreng 30-minutong tawag dito. Pag-uusapan natin ang problema, ang data mo, at ang unang bersyon. Depende sa scope ang presyo. Mag-book ng libreng 30-minutong tawag at diretso kong sasabihin ang gastos at timeline.

Freelance ka ba o full-time?

Pareho. Tumatanggap ako ng freelance na proyekto mula sa kahit saang bansa, at bukas ako sa remote na AI engineering role.

Pricing depends on scope

Book a free 30-minute call. You get a straight answer on cost and timeline.

Book a free 30-minute call