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Waco, Texas, United States

Waco, Texas, United States

• Leveraged pre-trained Convolutional Neural Networks and data normalization techniques in PyTorch to improve the classification accuracy of underwater organisms imagery in out-of-distribution data by 35%.
• Collected and processed over 350,000 records of scraped data from online advertisements to construct a graph database in Neo4J and, subsequently, a dataset with labels based on graph heuristics to address the problem.
• Designed a data-driven solution leveraging Large Language Models and the interpretability of their layers to extract insights on language use correlated with Human Trafficking in online escorts advertisements.

Havana, Cuba

• Taught practical lessons and recitations twice a week, year-round, on Data Structures and Algorithms courses.
• Researched Information Extraction methods in eHealth corpora and implemented models in PyTorch based on LSTM and CRF that achieved 0.625 and 0.814 F1 scores in the Entity Recognition and Relationship Extraction tasks.

Havana, Cuba

• Teaching Assistant in Data Structures and Algorithms courses

Havana, Cuba

• Led a team of three engineers and a designer in an agile environment to develop a solution that automated swag items branding which reduced to two minutes a two-hour manual work of a designer.
• Leveraged a variety of AWS tools such as Step Functions for our automated pipeline, Lambda functions and ECS Fargate for the state machine tasks, S3 for persistent data storage, and Sage Maker for Machine Learning.
• Set up a dockerized local environment for development and testing on top of several AWS services like Step Functions, Lambda, and ECS; hence boosting the performance of the team by 50% in the development of AWS-based.

Havana, Cuba

• Collaborated to develop web applications with an ASP.NET-based backend and a React-based frontend.
• Developed pieces of functionality from the database migrations in Entity Framework, all layers of a domain-driven designed backend, to frontend views.

Cuba

• Collaborated to develop web applications in PHP Symfony

Master'S Degree, Computer Science, 4.0

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science, 4.92/5

Graduated with honors and a Summa Cum Laude Degree. Performed active undergraduate research, focused on Artificial Intelligence.