About Edgar
Agentic AI & Workflow Automation Engineer, Dubai, UAE
I build things that keep working without me watching them. A trading bot that reacts while I'm asleep. A workflow that finds job listings every morning before I wake up. A voice assistant that answers questions using my own notes, no internet needed. If I still have to babysit it, it's not done.
I like building the real thing fast, then fixing what breaks — instead of planning for weeks first. Most of my projects started rough and got better once I saw what actually went wrong. I'd rather ship something useful with a few rough edges than sit on a perfect plan that's never been tested.
Outside of client and personal projects, I spend a lot of time on trading systems — Pine Script indicators, MT5 EAs, and the automation that connects them to Discord and a trade journal — and on running a fully local AI voice pipeline (llama.cpp, RAG over my own Markdown vault, local TTS) mostly because I wanted to see how far "no cloud dependency" could go. Both are the kind of side projects that turn into real infrastructure because I actually use them daily.
Professional Summary
An Agentic AI & Workflow Automation Engineer with over 15 years of combined experience across IT systems support, customer-facing operations, and, most recently, n8n and AI-agentic workflow automation. Proven track record of designing and deploying production automation workflows that integrate Claude and Google Gemini AI agents with real-world business processes (CRM, trading-event notification, content categorization). Adept at API/webhook integration and building resilient, error-handled data pipelines. Passionate about leveraging automation and agentic AI to streamline operations and cut manual workload across the teams I support.
Core Competencies & Skills
Technical Skills
- n8n, Zapier, Make.com — workflow automation
- REST API, webhook & MCP server integration
- AI agent design (Claude, Google Gemini); self-hosted LLMs (llama.cpp) & RAG
- Next.js/React; Supabase; Vercel; Docker; Git/GitHub
- MQL5 (MetaTrader 5 EA) & Pine Script v6 (TradingView)
- Google Sheets/Docs API; network/hardware support; MS Office
Soft Skills
- Client relationship management & cross-team communication
- Quick technical learner
- Problem-solving and diagnostic troubleshooting
- Attention to detail and data accuracy
- Customer service
Key Projects
Ludex GG
Gaming deals and news site: an n8n pipeline pulls CheapShark deals and RSS feeds every 6 hours, summarizes each article with Google Gemini Flash-Lite, and upserts results into Supabase for a public Vercel front end.
GroundTruth
A Waze-like map app that pays contributors for verified real-world map changes. Next.js 16 + Supabase + MapLibre GL, currently a friends-only points-based pilot validating the report-then-verify loop before real payouts.
Trade Journal SaaS
A hosted, multi-tenant trade journal for MT5 traders. An MT5 Expert Advisor posts trade events directly via webhook; the dashboard covers closed P&L and win-rate stats, CSV export, and a trade calendar.
Agentic Job Automation System
Daily autonomous workflow that scrapes job boards for Dubai and remote AI roles, uses Google Gemini to filter listings for relevance and location, and logs qualified results to a shared Google Sheet with retry and error-logging branches on every fallible step.
Video Transcription and Translation Pipeline
Dual-input automation (Google Drive folder watch and YouTube URL form) that transcribes and translates video content, generates auto-synced captions and summaries via Creatomate, and writes final output to Google Docs.
Local AI Voice Assistant
Offline-first voice assistant running entirely on local hardware: push-to-talk speech-to-text, a locally served Gemma 4 12B model answering questions over a personal Markdown knowledge base, and local neural text-to-speech for spoken replies, with cloud APIs wired only as fallback.
Multi-Timeframe TradingView Indicator
Built and optimized a multi-timeframe market-structure indicator with a live on-chart dashboard, resolving repaint issues and adding invalidation logic that voids trade setups on specific wick breaches.
Professional Experience
GIS Specialist | URBI — Dubai, UAE
August 2020 – Present
- Collected and integrated geographic data from field surveys, aerial photography, and satellite imagery, maintaining accurate infrastructure mapping records
- Updated and maintained maps reflecting current geographic and infrastructure changes, ensuring dataset reliability across projects
- Managed structured geospatial datasets, preserving accuracy and consistency for cross-project use
Junior Sales Executive | Etisalat — Dubai, UAE
March 2019 – February 2020
- Assessed customer requirements and presented tailored solutions, closing sales through consultative selling
- Resolved customer complaints and objections professionally, maintaining service quality standards
- Gathered and relayed customer feedback to management, contributing to service delivery improvements
Sales Executive | LEVANT (Couture Division) — Dubai, UAE
December 2012 – December 2018
- Delivered consistent, high-quality customer service and personalized product recommendations
- Built and maintained long-term client relationships across in-person, phone, and email channels
- Ensured pricing accuracy and upheld selling-floor presentation standards
Server and Network Operations (OJT) | Saint Mary's University
December 2009 – December 2010
- Installed and configured computer hardware, operating systems, and applications for university systems
- Monitored and maintained computer systems and networks, diagnosing and resolving hardware/software faults
- Set up new user accounts and profiles, resolving password and access issues for staff and students
Education
- BS in Information Technology — Saint Mary's University, Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines
Certifications
- AI Automation with n8n (Full Training) — Technical Virtual Assistants PH, completed November 29, 2025. Instructor: RJ Villamer. Covered: AI Agents vs AI Workflows, n8n server setup, workflows/nodes fundamentals, triggers, actions, filtering/conditions/branching, looping/merging data, connecting to APIs and AI Agents.
- No Code Automation with Make.com (Full Training) — Technical Virtual Assistants PH, completed November 23, 2025. Instructor: RJ Villamer. Covered: Make.com interface walkthrough, scenario structure, filters, triggers, connecting apps, actions, error handling, and HTTP requests.
- No Code Automation with Zapier (Full Training) — Technical Virtual Assistants PH, completed November 23, 2025. Instructor: RJ Villamer. Covered: Zapier interface, triggers, Formatter by Zapier, Delay by Zapier, Filter by Zapier, Paths by Zapier, Looping by Zapier, Sub-Zaps, Webhooks, and AI by Zapier.
- Prompt Engineering (Full Training) — Technical Virtual Assistants PH, completed November 23, 2025. Instructor: RJ Villamer. Covered: prompt engineering fundamentals, anatomy of a good prompt, practical prompt techniques, real-world scenarios, tools/templates/prompt libraries, and building prompt workflows.
- One Million Prompters — Certificate of Completion — Dubai Future Foundation (Dubai Centre for Artificial Intelligence), completed August 2026. Recognizes completion of the "One Million Prompters" initiative launched by H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, training and empowering one million people in prompt engineering skills for AI systems, aligned with the Dubai Universal Blueprint for Artificial Intelligence. Skills: Prompt Engineering, Artificial Intelligence (AI).