AI Grant-Funding Platform
Ailsa HQ Limited • May 2025 – Aug 2026
A six-service platform that helps businesses discover grant funding, match against it, and manage their applications — with AI integrated throughout.
HELLO! I'M
I build applied machine learning and production web systems — from computer-vision models and LLM pipelines to the APIs, dashboards and payment flows around them.
Fraud detection, DOI-indexed
Top 20 of 100+ ASEAN teams
Python · TypeScript · AWS
I'm a software engineer working across applied machine learning and full-stack product engineering. Most recently I was a Python Engineer at Ailsa HQ Limited, a UK AI grant-funding platform, and an IT Consultant at Save the Children Cambodia — holding both roles concurrently through 2026.
My work tends to sit where models meet real systems. On one side that means training deep-learning classifiers, engineering features for tabular models, and wiring LLM and embedding pipelines. On the other it means the unglamorous half that makes those things usable: REST APIs, access-control systems, payment integrations, admin dashboards and the deployment around them.
A lot of that work has been for Cambodia and the region — crop-disease recognition delivered to farmers through a Telegram chatbot, a point-of-sale and ERP system for a coffee business, national QR payment rails, and bilingual Khmer/English interfaces. I care about software that reaches people who aren't well served by the default assumptions of most products.
I graduated in Information Technology Engineering from the Royal University of Phnom Penh in 2025, and published my thesis research on payment-fraud detection independently.
Independent Research
Published Thesis on Payment-Fraud Detection
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15061986
Competition
Pan-SEA AI Challenge 2025
Top 20 Finalist among 100+ ASEAN engineering teams
Regional Commitment
Specialized in applying deep learning models and engineering reliable full-stack production systems — combining intelligent models with the unglamorous backend plumbing that makes them usable.
Applied Deep Learning & Generative AI
Designing, training, and operationalizing computer vision models, gradient-boosted tabular classifiers, and LLM-powered reasoning pipelines built for real-world inference constraints.
Core Engineering Scope
Applied Technologies
Scalable Web Platforms & Cloud Architecture
Architecting end-to-end production applications, microservices, secure authentication layers, and asynchronous background pipelines from blank repositories to high-availability deployment.
Core Engineering Scope
Applied Technologies
Flagship machine learning deployments, enterprise web platforms, and open-source systems engineered for real-world impact.
Ailsa HQ Limited • May 2025 – Aug 2026
A six-service platform that helps businesses discover grant funding, match against it, and manage their applications — with AI integrated throughout.
Save the Children Cambodia • Nov 2025 – Jun 2026
Deep-learning models that identify diseases in cucumber and cauliflower crops from a photo, delivered to farmers through a Telegram chatbot that also recommends treatment.
Open Source • Oct 2026
A self-hosted Next.js streaming API gateway that proxies chat requests across cloud LLM providers with multi-key round-robining to eliminate rate limits, while unifying local coding CLI agents under a single standard /api/chat endpoint.
Explore the complete catalog of open-source developer tools, AI agents, 3D extensions, games, and enterprise applications.
A progressive track record delivering applied AI/ML pipelines and scalable web applications across international and regional organizations.
AI-powered grant-funding discovery and application platform (UK)
• Built the platform's production scraping tier — five funder-specific scrapers for major UK and EU funding bodies, each with a distinct extraction strategy and dedicated automated test coverage.
Tracks: Plant Disease Recognition (AI/ML) • Coffee Business Management System
• Built the Remote Positive Parenting platform — a Khmer-language website and Telegram chatbot — including the admin CMS and a campaign/quiz broadcast scheduler.
Built a bilingual NGO website with a hand-built CMS spanning ~30 editable content sections.
Single-page marketing site in Framer with a custom React contact-form component wired to EmailJS.
Data interpretation and visualisation (Python, Excel).
A battle-tested stack spanning machine learning, high-scale web platforms, cloud infrastructure, and systems engineering.
Languages • Computer Vision • PyTorch • Next.js • AWS Cloud
05 — Research
My undergraduate thesis, published independently and DOI-indexed.
Royal University of Phnom Penh · 8 June 2025
An end-to-end machine-learning pipeline for financial fraud detection, published independently on Zenodo under CC-BY 4.0 and indexed on ResearchGate.
07 — Background
Bachelor of Information Technology Engineering
Graduated 22 May 2025Royal University of Phnom Penh
General English Program — Level 14
1 Dec 2020Stanford American School
English Program — Level 12
13 Jun 2019Arizon School
22 Oct 2025
Placed among 100+ teams across ASEAN in AI Singapore's regional challenge for an AI platform addressing real-world problems. Awarded USD 10,000 in AWS credits to develop and scale the solution.
7 – 20 Aug 2024
Selected as 1 of 8 participants to attend an international seminar on Management and Protection of Nature Reserves for Belt & Road Initiative countries.
22 Dec 2023
Awarded for a Telegram chatbot promoting positive parenting and child protection to combat violence against children.
NICC 9th Startup Camp (ICT)
19 – 22 Jun 2023Completed the training course and achieved the required level of competence.
Samsung Innovation Campus Scholarship
5 Apr 2022Selected among the top 60 students nationally for an ICT programme covering Python from basic to advanced, and data analysis.
Silver Medal — Angkor Mathematics Cambodia
15 Jan 2022Awarded among 2,000+ participants.
Mathematics Outstanding Student Cambodia
15 Oct 2021One of the top finalists in the national Mathematics Outstanding Student examination.
Dive into generative canvas physics and creative developer experiments, or connect directly to build production-grade AI models and full-stack software.
Open to engineering roles and high-impact project collaborations, particularly where machine learning intersects with production software.
Phone
+855 16 222 054Headquarters
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
UTC+7 (Indochina Time) • Open to Remote & Relocation
Available for select full-stack & machine learning engineering contracts and full-time roles.
DUCH PANHATHUN