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Spain

Providing technical, organizational and strategic advice to teams pursuing Machine Learning and Generative AI initiatives, particularly in the search and recommendations space.With over twenty years of experience, I have helped design, build and organize a wide assortment of Machine Learning, AI, NLP and Data Science initiatives. My primary focus has been.

London, United Kingdom, GB

Overseeing the strategic planning, team building, management and technical execution of Data Science and Machine Learning projects, I helped measurably increase efficiency in the company's primary offering. Working with multiple globally distributed teams, we leveraged recent advances in search, NLP, and Machine Learning to deliver significant tech and.

London, United Kingdom, GB

Joining AlphaSights in 2018 as CTO, I partnered closely with the executive leadership and engineering teams to design and implement an impactful Tech roadmap, usher in engineering best practices, build and scale a top-notch and globally distributed team in a sustainable manner, establish a positive and productive culture, modernize the technical stack.

New York, NY, US

I worked with and helped helped build an excellent team of engineers, researchers, and data scientists to deliver an industry-leading multimedia search and discovery experience. As team director I helped plot our technical strategy and worked with our product owners, technical managers, researchers and developers to deliver on our shared vision of an.

New York, NY, US

Initially Software Development Manager for the Machine Learning and Algorithm team, later also for International Search and Search Platform teams. My teams and I released numerous first-in-class customer-facing products to improve the search and discovery experience.I also designed and implemented several of the core back end services for Shutterstock's.

Madrid, ES

• Research in social network analysis. Developed a new method of tracing influence in word-of-mouth algorithms and a novel technique for inferring unobserved communication at the group level in social networks.
• Deliver a prototype system that automatically detects and classifies in real time customer sentiment about various entities as expressed in social media. Techniques employed from statistical NLP and machine learning.
• Publish research results in international conferences and workshops.

Mountain View, CA, US

• Member of the core search quality team, responsible for the ranking of Google search results.
• Work in a small team to redesign and improve Google's spell correction system.
• Used advanced techniques from machine learning (ML), statistical natural language processing (NLP), data structures and algorithms.
• Build complex models from extremely large data sets and construct a system capable of responding to billions of daily requests with very low latency.

Palo Alto, CA, US

• Member of the search relevance team, responsible for improving the quality of Amazon’s product search results.
• Worked with one other engineer to redesign Amazon's all-products search algorithm, a federated search algorithm powering the majority of customer searches. Led to more than $10 million estimated annual revenue.
• Internationalized the new all-products search algorithm and its associated infrastructure to function in all countries where Amazon operates.
• Awarded a patent for a new methodology for combining search results from disparate indexes.

New York, NY, US

• Worked as a financial engineer and software developer to price complex derivates and help traders understand their risk exposure.
• One of two initial developers for a rogue project that later became BlackRock Anser, an interactive analytics package and one of the key components of the BlackRock Solutions division.

Honors Ba, Applied Mathematics

Master Of Science - Ms, (Abd Phd), Computer Science