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00 — Jan Benjamin Yap

Jan Benjamin Yap

AI Engineer
  • CS, De La Salle University
  • Makati, Philippines
  • 2x Published

I'm an AI Engineer specializing in agentic systems, building products that apply AI agents to solve real business problems and staying current with the latest advances in agentic engineering. Alongside this core work, I take on select freelance software engineering engagements.

PythonJavaSQLJavaScriptReact / React NativeNext.jsGemini & OpenAI APIsRAG PipelinesAgentic Workflows
Jan Benjamin Yap walking down a street at night, holding an open laptop in one handstill open
Fig. 01 — subject, in transit

I get things done wherever, whenever.

Previously
Software Engineering Intern2026
P&G, SK-II
  • Architected the proof of concept for SK-II's Super Powered Assistant, covering two core features across the full SDLC with agentic development workflows.
  • Cut feature shipping from one week to one day — 7x — with a cross-repository agentic system spanning four codebases.
Team Head2023—26
DLSU Career Services
  • Led an 8-person team across partnerships with 110+ national and multinational companies for DLSU's largest career fair, drawing ~1,900 students daily.
  • Led a 10-person team through the full lifecycle of ~40 events with firms including McKinsey, Chevron, AXA, BDO, and Standard Chartered, supporting ~3,000 Lasallians.
01 — Selected WorkView all projects
The SK-II logo in white on a red background.
01

SK-II Super Powered Assistant

Architected the proof of concept for SK-II's Super Powered Assistant at P&G, covering two core features across the full SDLC. A cross-repository agentic system spanning four codebases cut feature shipping from a week to a day.

2026Agentic Architecture
The LasallEats paper listing on IEEE Xplore, titled "LasallEats: A Restaurant Recommendation System Mobile App for DLSU Manila Students," with author list and abstract visible.
02

LasallEats

An emotion-aware restaurant recommendation system pairing empathic computing with Google Gemini for contextual suggestions. A user study measured 85.7% emotion recognition accuracy and 4.36/5 satisfaction.

Jan Benjamin Yap presenting SpeakAR on a lecture stage, holding a tablet running the app while a slide titled "XR-based Approaches" plays behind him.
03

Speak with Confidence

A mobile AR training tool built in Unity that simulates audience environments with customizable virtual avatars to help users work through glossophobia, validated by a pilot study across anxiety levels.

The ACTS 2025 team and event organizers posing onstage while presenting a Maggi package.
04

ACTS with Nestlé

Led a five-person team to the finals of the Philippines' premier corporate sustainability case competition with a campaign repositioning Maggi around innovation, sustainability, and community engagement.

2025Top 10 of 77 Teams
The TEEVS storefront in a browser: a dark landing page reading "The card you’ve been hunting for", a live vault count, and a fanned spread of graded trading cards.The Austin Cruz photography site in a browser: the headline "Graduation and event photography" beside a portrait of a graduate seated in a classroom, with booking contacts listed underneath.The law firm document management system in a browser: a case directory listing cases grouped by court level, with a workspace sidebar for the logbook, access management, locations, and activity history.
TEEVSAustin Cruz PhotographyLaw Firm Document Management System

Freelance Projects

Independent software engineering engagements for external clients, spanning product web apps, client-facing sites, and internal document systems.

Freelance
02 — Contact

Work with me.

Have a project in mind? Send me an email. You’ll work directly with the person building it.

Web apps · Automation · AI integrations

Jan Benjamin Yap
LET’S TALK

Our conversation could start here

Client: I have an idea. Where do we start?

Jan: Email me what you have in mind, what you want to achieve, and your timeline.

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