About Me


Hi! I'm Sancho Syquia. I spent most of my life in Manila, Philippines πŸ‡΅πŸ‡­, with some early years in Hong Kong πŸ‡­πŸ‡°, before moving to UC San Diego πŸ”± πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ  for college.

Growing up in a developing country, I've always cared deeply about giving back. Since 2020, I've co-led my nonprofit, Adaptech, to bring tech and education to low-income Filipino students.

I love how tech revolutionizes education, healthcare, and the environment. Last summer, I interned at Mercury Alert AI, where we transformed patient caregiving with AI. This fall, I'm interning at Spade AI to build an AI engine for real-time market insights and innovation.

Building on my internship experience, I co-founded and engineered the AI backbone of Veida AI, an app that enhances student learning with AI-generated study plans, notes, flashcards, and quizzes.

Besides tech: I enjoy F1 🏎️, beaches πŸ–οΈ, poker πŸƒ, badminton 🏸, cooking 🍝, and scuba diving 🀿!

Qualifications



Education



Sancho Syquia UCSD Logo

UC San Diego

B.S. Mathematics & Computer Science

Double Minors in Finance & Data Science

CSE Society - Website Developer

ACM - Backend Project Engineer

AI Student Collective - Project Developer



Experience



Sancho Syquia Meta Logo

Meta | Jun '25 - Sep '25

Incoming Software Engineer Intern

Summer 2025



Sancho Syquia Spade AI Logo

Spade AI | Oct '24 – Present

Full Stack Engineering Intern

Stored embeddings with pgvector on Azure. Enhanced searches using HNSW indexing. Developed context-aware AI chatbot with Hugging Face.



Sancho Syquia Veida AI Logo

Veida AI | Jul '24 – Present

Co-Founder & AI Engineer

Worked with 3 engineers on an AI-driven study app. Integrated OCR, OpenAI, Stripe, Clerk, and MongoDB. Deployed Flask and Next.js.



Sancho Syquia Headstarter AI Logo

Headstarter AI | Jul '24 – Sep '24

Software Engineering Fellow

Building 5 AI projects. Participating in hackathons. Working in a team. Receiving professional coaching.



Sancho Syquia Mercury Alert AI Logo

Mercury Alert AI | May '24 – Sep '24

Software Engineering & Machine Learning Intern

Converted portal app from React Native to Expo. Migrated NoSQL to SQL databases. Built AWS call-for-help function.



Sancho Syquia Investree Logo

Investree PH | Sep '22 – Jun '23

Software Engineering & Data Analytics Intern

Wrote SQL queries and set up Tableau dashboards. Automated credit risk data scoring. Constructed RESTful APIs for UI integration.



Leadership



Adaptech Logo

Adaptech PH | Jan '20 – Present

Co-Founder & President

Led team of 20 students. Acquired $2.3K+ to refurbish and donate 49 used computers to local schools. Taught 951 students in 18 tech workshops.



IBlieve Logo

IBlieve | Jun '20 – Present

Tech Lead & Founding Member

Piloted IB non-profit organization. Built WordPress website with 1M views from 196 countries. Taught IB Math and CS to 50+ students.



Projects

Sancho Syquia ClawPatrol 2024

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ClawPatrol

Apr '24

Dinosaur Species Detector. Classifies images of 15 species with 80.1% accuracy.

Skills: TensorFlow, Keras, ResNet152V2, Streamlit, Python

Sancho Syquia Xtract 2022

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Xtract

Jul '21 – Mar '22

Dental Appointment Scheduler and Prescription Manager. SHA-256 Password Security.

Skills: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, PHP, MySQL

Sancho Syquia PKPvP 2021

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PKPvP

Jan '16 – May '21

Minecraft Bedrock Server. 40 virtual team members. 1.4M+ players. $2K+ profits.

Skills: PHP, MySQL, SFTP, YAML, PocketMine-MP API

Sancho Syquia Donate COVID-19 2020

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Donate COVID-19

Mar '20 – Jul '20

Global Directory for COVID-19 Beneficiaries. 8 college teammates. 14K views.

Skills: HTML, CSS, React, Firebase

Extracurricular Achievements

Sancho Syquia Scuba 2023

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Professional Association of Diving Instructors

Feb '23

Received PADI Open Water Diver Certification.

Sancho Syquia Adaptech TAYO 2023

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Ten Accomplished Youth Organizations Philippines

Jan '23

Adaptech Philippines was selected as 1 of 41 semi-finalists chosen from 491 entries.

Sancho Syquia GYEC 2021

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Global Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge

Jun '21

Team Magis won 3rd of 43 teams from 23 countries for proposing a sustainable air-to-water device.