Juan Vergara Email & Phone Number

Redmond, Washington, US

• Supported optimization of industrial processes through data processing & ML model engineering:
• Leading the processing & recognition of patterns in customer datasets.
• Identifying industrial optimization opportunities & engineering ML solutions.
• Supporting the design & evaluation of GenAI (LLM) solutions.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Directed partners and customers teams to meet industrial KPIs:
• Lead a partner DS team to improve RL performance KPI by 45%. Beating operators by 5%.
• Guide a team’s scheduling solution from untrainable to 15% close to KPI target.
• Validate Machine Teaching strategies for AI, i.e.: modular decomposition ↑ 40%.
• Craft templates to ramp up new projects, i.e.: simulation & solution validation.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Led BonsAI training on RL for Industrial Deployment supporting 100+ trainees:
• Teach 100+ partners and customers. Fully training dozens for production deployment.
• Lead transfer to Coursera, boosting graduation rates by x5. From 10% to 50%.
• Collaborate with the University of Washington to craft 18 h worth of tutorials.
• Lead training resume ingestion, final project review, and training content improvement.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Supported the use of BonsAI, Reinforcement Learning for industrial applications:
• Led a patner DS team to reduce fracpack jobs postprocessing from 2 days to 1.5 hours.
• Partnered with BP to publish a paper on a successful BonsAI deployment.
• Compiled a set of Machine Teaching strategies to reduce RL training time by 50%.
• Supported our BonsAI Advance training through 1:1 final-project review sessions.

Contributing to the mission through financial support, and strategic guidance. Helping foster a growth mindset that puts all stakeholders first, along the principles of Conscious Capitalism.

• Founded a conscious venture capital firm that seeks, though conscious profitability*, have a positive impact in the world – both environmentally and socially.Current investments:
• RETREE -- Pursuing sustainability through reforestation. https://retree.es/
• LASTBASIC -- Seeking democratizing hardware design. https://lastbasic.com/
• U4IMPACT -- Orienting Final Thesis (BS, MS) to suit corporate and societal needs. https://u4impact.org/
• MIRESI -- The largest network of quality elderly residences in Spain. https://miresi.es/
• POLITIKEA -- Empowering individuals to be politically engaged and self-aware. https://politikea.io/* Companies that seek conscious profitability, taking what they need to operate while giving back a major part of the.

San Jose, California, US

• Used Computer Vision Algos for quality control in advance packaging, semiconductor industry:
• Automated a code flow for sensitivity analysis to be as precise as 6 nanometers.
• Developed algos using OpenCV, as well as DL (PyTorch), with up to 95% accuracy.

Redwood City, CA, US

• DC Systems provides, through their software, real-time data monitoring for power plants and distribution centers
• Reduced project customization time by 30% | Participated in Software Quality Control & Quality Assurance
• Proactively troubleshooted both software and hardware challenges when supporting clients’ system-upgrades-----DC Systems is a company located in Silicon Valley (San Francisco Bay Area) that deals with data monitoring.

Madrid, Community Of Madrid, ES

• This institution promotes technical research and post-graduate studies by developing projects for tech companies
• Effectively engineered both hardware and software for a Music-Based Automatic Control of Spotlights
• Built 5 algorithms, architected key metrics and reached more than 90% accuracy on Beat Detection [ MATLAB ]-----Continued improving my Bachelor's Thesis: "Automatic Control of Spotlights for Concerts" - Input - Live.
• PLAN - Defined ‘beat detection’ as the core feature for the product
• DESIGN - Studied 3 ways to identify the beat on different music
• DEVELOP - Coded the selected beat-identifying functions and their interactions

Madrid, Community Of Madrid, ES

• Worked hand to hand with the head of the company. Applied coordination, IT & programming, creative and technical skills. Developed teamwork and decision-making skills.
• COORDINATION: Managed people in my team to get tasks done in a timely manner
• PLANNING: Helped to arrange teachers' schedules and classes
• TECHNICAL SKILLS: - Understanding specific communication standards (DMX protocol) - Setting up a whole light system for concerts - Dealing with program licenses, computers troubleshooting, and specialised equipment.

Deep Reinforcement Learning: Nanodegree Program, Computer Engineering

Artificial Intelligence: Nanodegree Program, Computer Engineering

Master'S Degree, Engineering/Industrial Management

Master'S Degree, Electromechanical Engineering

The Second City Acting Program, Acting

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electromechanical Engineering